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Ch. 4 Study Guide
Humanities
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which leader unified Arabia into a Muslim state through battle? | Abu Bakr |
| What was the title given to Muslim's highest leaders. | Caliph |
| Why could Muslim merchants trade with people in many different areas. | Because Arabia was a crossroad location |
| Why did the Abbasids reorganize the government? | To make it easier to rule a large region. |
| What Muslim practice was tolerance? | acceptance |
| What did the arabs copy from the persians? | a persian form of buraucracy |
| In what way were Cordoba and Baghdad similar? | Both were centers for learning. |
| What was the most important factor in the spread of Islam from the 600s to the 1600s? | conquering non-muslims |
| The exchange and beleifs of customs between the Muslims and the people they conquered caused | cultrual blending |
| In what way did the practive of tolerance affect the jewish people of COrdoba? | I contrubuted to the cities culural growth. |
| In what way were the effects of trade and tolerance on the Muslim world similar? | both allowed cultures to influence the Muslim world. |
| Which Ottoman leader became known as "the Conquerer"? | Muhammad II |
| During Suley I's rule, the Ottoman Empire took control of the Eastern _______ and parts of ____. | Mediterranean,Europe |
| What was the most important difference between the Sunni and the Shia? | The Shia thought all caliphs had to be related to Muhammad and the Sunni thought anyone who was a good Muslim and a strong leader could be a caliph. |
| The leader of the Safavid Emiper was? | The Shah. |
| Akbar's tolerant religious policy helped to unify which empire? | the Mughal Empire |
| How did the Ottoman, safavid, and Mughal Empires expand their empires | through warfare |
| What was the key reason to the Mughal Empire callapsed? | Tolerance religious plicies changed. |
| Arab scholars used the astrolabe for what purpose? | Figure out what location on earth |
| Al-Khwarizmi's book about Al Jabr was significant because it was the basis for modern day algebra. | Foundation of modern algebra |
| The Sufism movement was a reaction agianst past Muslim belief about relationships with god. | The interest of Muslim in worldly htings . |
| In what way did mosques chane, as the Muslim world grew richer? | They becae much more elaborately decorated. |
| Muslim art, architecture, and science were all influenced by? | other cultures. |
| What language was spoken throughout most of the Muslim world? | Arabic |
| When Musims conqered new lands, thye usually amde treaties with _____. | any non-muslims living there. |
| Arab merchants furthered the spread of Islam by _______. | carrying their beliefs with them to new lands. |
| In the mid-600s, Islam split into two groups over a disagreement about who should be the ________. | Caliph, the two groups were named Sunni, and the Shia. |
| Islamic capital and center of trade was _____. | Baghdad. |
| The arabs got the idea of use of gunpowder from the ________. | Chinese. |
| The _________ Empire controlled most of India and left a cultural heritage known for poetry and architecture. | Mughal |
| A focus on spiritual issues and finding a personal relaitonship with god was central to the Muslim philosophy called _______. | Sufism |