Dar al-Islam

Question 1

What was the name of the event that caused the split of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054 CE?

Answer 1

The Great Schism in 1054 or East/West Schism

Question 2

What was the term used to describe the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) ruling as the political and religious head?

Answer 2

caesaropapism

Question 3

What was the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church later called?

Answer 3

Patriarch of Constantinople

Question 4

What was the large church built in Constantinople called?

Answer 4

Hagia Sophia

Question 5

What was the form of common law enacted in the Eastern Roman Empire?

Answer 5

Code of Justinian

Question 6

Provide two things that the Code of Justinian provided(civil Laws).

Answer 6

fair(er) law to citizens and common law

Question 7

Provide an example of a Byzantine peasant rebellion.

Answer 7

Basil the Copperhand

Question 8

What was the name of the most powerful Byzantine emperor and his wife?

Answer 8

Justinian
Theodora

Question 9

What was the major epidemic that weakened the Byzantine Empire in the 14th century?

Answer 9

Black Death

Question 10

Provide the name of the document that codified Islam’s initial beliefs.

Answer 10

Quran

Question 11

What language was the Quran written in?

Answer 11

Arabic

Question 12

Which did the inhabitants of Mecca dislike about Islam?

Answer 12

egalitarian

Question 13

What aspect of Islam was borrowed from Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Christianity?

Answer 13

monotheistic

Question 14

What aspect was borrowed from Arabic religions?

Answer 14

Kaaba/Hajj

Question 15

Provide the first two major Islamic Arab states.

Answer 15

Umayyad Caliphate
Abbasid Caliphate

Question 16

Provide the Five Pillars of Islam.

Answer 16

one god; Muhammad is the last prophet
paying for charity(almsgiving)
praying 5 times a day at Mecca
pilgrimage to the house of Allah at Makkah (Hajj)
fasting in the month of Ramadan

Question 17

Provide the two areas that were Arabized.

Answer 17

North Africa
Middle East

Question 18

Provide the three areas that were Islamized

Answer 18

Persia
India
Central Asia

Question 19

What was the new form of government used by the Arabs that allowed rulers to change both political and religious law?

Answer 19

caliphates

Question 20

What was the new form of government used by the Arabs and others that allowed rulers to change both political and but only enforce religious law?

Answer 20

sultanates

Question 21

What is the name for second-class (non-Muslim) citizens in the Islamic caliphates?

Answer 21

dhimmis

Question 22

Provide the three major disadvantages for being considered second-class citizens

Answer 22

no military service
can’t run for political office
excluded from some economic deals
must pay the jizya tax

Question 23

This is the name of the non-Muslim tax in Islamic empires.

Answer 23

jizya

Question 23

This is the name of the non-Muslim tax in Islamic empires.

Answer 23

jizya

Question 24

This is the name for all Muslims working loosely together to spread and protect Islam.

Answer 24

ummah

Question 25

Provide 3 SPECIFIC places Muslim diasporic communities were established.

Answer 25

Indonesia East Africa Southeast Asia

Question 26

What was unique about Islam in West Africa?

Answer 26

not forced by state

Question 27

Which West African Empire came first?

Answer 27

Ghana

Question 28

Which West African Empire came second?

Answer 28

Mali

Question 29

What was the name of the ruler who made the Hajj to Mecca?

Answer 29

Mansa Musa

Question 30

Why did the upper-class West Africans convert to Islam?

Answer 30

trade benefits with Arabs

Question 31

Provide technologies that spread from China, through Asia, and to Europe.

Answer 31

Printing, paper, and gunpowder

Question 32

What is the term used to describe all states controlled by an Islamic government?

Answer 32

Dar al-Islam

Question 33

List the ways Islamic scholars advanced medicine.

Answer 33

diagnose many diseases Found treatment hospitals travel clinics

Question 34

Provide the Muslim Persian mathematician who invented trigonometry in the period circa 1200 CE - 1450 CE

Answer 34

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Question 35

Provide the prominent female Sufi Muslim writer in the period circa 1200 CE - 1450 CE

Answer 35

‘A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah

Question 36

This was the holding place for knowledge in Baghdad for the Abbasids until its destruction by the Mongols in 1258 CE

Answer 36

House of Wisdom

Question 37

These were Turko-Persian Sunni invaders who displaced much of the Abbasid and Byzantine territory in the Middle East and Anatolia in the 11th century CE

Answer 37

Seljuk Turks

Question 38

From the emirates of Anatolia came this Sunni Muslim empire in the 13th-century that would control much of North Africa, the Middle East, Anatolia, and parts of Southern Europe for centuries afterwards

Answer 38

Ottoman

Question 39

This was the first Muslim empire in India from 1206-1526 that dealt with constant Hindu-Muslim conflicts

Answer 39

Delhi-Sultanate

Question 40

This was the monotheistic religion that emerged in modern-day Pakistan and India in the period circa 1200 CE - 1450 CE that blended elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam

Answer 40

Sikhism