Humanities Test

Question 1

Oasis

Answer 1

A place where there is water and vegetation in the middle of a desert. Lots of people traded there.

Question 2

Nomadic People

Answer 2

People who travel from place to place seeking food and water for their animals

Question 3

Beduin Tribe

Answer 3

The tribe Muhammad lived with when he was a child

Question 4

Abraham

Answer 4

Father of Judaism, Christianity, Islam. He spread the idea of monotheism

Question 5

Monothesim

Answer 5

Belief in one god

Question 6

Muhammad

Answer 6

An Arab prophet who founded the religion Islam (570-632 CE & born in Mecca)

Question 7

Allah

Answer 7

The Islamic God

Question 8

Qur’an

Answer 8

A religious textbook based off the religion Islam

Question 9

Islam

Answer 9

A religion based off five things/pillars: Faith, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and pilgrimage. The religion also stressed relief in one god (Allah)

Question 10

Muslim

Answer 10

A Islamic follower

Question 11

Mosque

Answer 11

A muslim place of worship

Question 12

Sunna

Answer 12

A Islamic model for living based off the teachings of Muhammad

Question 13

Caliph

Answer 13

A ruler of the entire muslim government

Question 14

Shi’a

Answer 14

A branch of the muslim society who believed that Ali and his descendants were the rightful successors of Muhammad

Question 15

Sunni

Answer 15

A branch of the muslim society that believed the first four caliphs were the rightful successors of Muhammad

Question 16

Ka’ba

Answer 16

A cube with a meteor in it where people performed a yearly pilgrimage to go worship around it (located in Mecca)

Question 17

Hijrah

Answer 17

Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina (622 CE)

Question 18

Hajj

Answer 18

A yearly pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 19

Five Pillars of Islam

Answer 19

Faith, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and pilgrimage

Question 20

Abu Bakr

Answer 20

First caliph after Muhammad’s death

Question 21

Umayyad

Answer 21

The first Islamic empire (capital was Damascus)

Question 22

Abd Al-Malik

Answer 22

Caliph who became ruler in 685 CE. He made Arabic the official language of all muslim governments.

Question 23

Abbasid

Answer 23

The second Islamic dynasty (started in 750 CE)

Question 24

Abd Al-Rahman I

Answer 24

Umayyad prince who fled from the Coup and hid in Al-Andalus where he brought innovations such as plumbing, irrigation technology, new crops, and modern architecture (731-788)

Question 25

Calligraphy

Answer 25

The art of beautiful handwriting

Question 26

Omar Khayyam

Answer 26

Muslim astronomer, poet, and mathematician

Question 27

Al-Khwarizmi

Answer 27

Muslim mathematician who created algebra

Question 28

Ibn Sina

Answer 28

Muslim scientist and philosopher who organized the medical knowledge of the Greeks and Arabs into the Canon of Medicine

Question 29

Abu Bakr Al-Razi

Answer 29

Muslim scientist who made definitions between smallpox and measles

Question 30

Iberian Peninsula

Answer 30

Spain and Portugal

Question 31

Al-Andulas

Answer 31

A muslin-ruled religion in present day Spain (established by the Berbers in 8 CE)

Question 32

Abd Al-Rhaman II

Answer 32

The eighth ruler/emir in Al-Andulas

Question 33

Al-Idrisi

Answer 33

Muslim geographer and cartographer who drew around 70 maps in his lifetime and served King Roger II of Sicily (1100-1165 CE)

Question 34

Al-Zahrawi

Answer 34

Muslim surgeon who cauterized wounds and crushed stones in the bladder