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Dar al-Islam Flashcards

1
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What was the name of the event that caused the split of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054 CE?

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The Great Schism in 1054 or East/West Schism

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

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caesaropapism

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

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Patriarch of Constantinople

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4
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What was the large church built in Constantinople called?

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Hagia Sophia

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5
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What was the form of common law enacted in the Eastern Roman Empire?

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Code of Justinian

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6
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Provide two things that the Code of Justinian provided(civil Laws).

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fair(er) law to citizens and common law

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7
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Provide an example of a Byzantine peasant rebellion.

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Basil the Copperhand

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

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Justinian
Theodora

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9
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What was the major epidemic that weakened the Byzantine Empire in the 14th century?

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Black Death

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10
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Provide the name of the document that codified Islam’s initial beliefs.

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Quran

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What language was the Quran written in?

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Arabic

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12
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Which did the inhabitants of Mecca dislike about Islam?

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egalitarian

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13
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What aspect of Islam was borrowed from Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Christianity?

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monotheistic

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14
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What aspect was borrowed from Arabic religions?

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Kaaba/Hajj

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15
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Provide the first two major Islamic Arab states.

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Umayyad Caliphate
Abbasid Caliphate

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16
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Provide the Five Pillars of Islam.

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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

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17
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Provide the two areas that were Arabized.

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North Africa
Middle East

18
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Provide the three areas that were Islamized

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Persia
India
Central Asia

19
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What was the new form of government used by the Arabs that allowed rulers to change both political and religious law?

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caliphates

20
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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?

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sultanates

21
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What is the name for second-class (non-Muslim) citizens in the Islamic caliphates?

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dhimmis

22
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Provide the three major disadvantages for being considered second-class citizens

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

23
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This is the name of the non-Muslim tax in Islamic empires.

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jizya

23
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This is the name of the non-Muslim tax in Islamic empires.

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jizya

24
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This is the name for all Muslims working loosely together to spread and protect Islam.

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ummah

25
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Provide 3 SPECIFIC places Muslim diasporic communities were established.

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Indonesia
East Africa
Southeast Asia

26
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What was unique about Islam in West Africa?

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not forced by state

27
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Which West African Empire came first?

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Ghana

28
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Which West African Empire came second?

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Mali

29
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What was the name of the ruler who made the Hajj to Mecca?

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Mansa Musa

30
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Why did the upper-class West Africans convert to Islam?

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trade benefits with Arabs

31
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Provide technologies that spread from China, through Asia, and to Europe.

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Printing, paper, and gunpowder

32
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What is the term used to describe all states controlled by an Islamic government?

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Dar al-Islam

33
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List the ways Islamic scholars advanced medicine.

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diagnose many diseases
Found treatment
hospitals
travel clinics

34
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Provide the Muslim Persian mathematician who invented trigonometry in the period circa 1200 CE - 1450 CE

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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

35
Q

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

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‘A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah

36
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This was the holding place for knowledge in Baghdad for the Abbasids until its destruction by the Mongols in 1258 CE

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House of Wisdom

37
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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

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Seljuk Turks

38
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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

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Ottoman

39
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This was the first Muslim empire in India from 1206-1526 that dealt with constant Hindu-Muslim conflicts

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Delhi-Sultanate

40
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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

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Sikhism

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