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| 251817113 | False | Africa below the Sahara was totally isolated from other civilizations prior to the arrival of the Muslims | 0 | |
| 251817114 | True | Stateless societies, which lacked the concentration of political power and authority, were organized around kinship or other forms of obligation | 1 | |
| 251817115 | True | The indigenous religions of Africa featured ancestor worship and diviners | 2 | |
| 251817116 | True | Utopian reform movements are common in Islamic history due to the disparity between law and practice, that it, between equality before God and inequality within the world of men | 3 | |
| 251817117 | True | Ethiopia remained a Christian kingdom despite repeated Muslim efforts to conquer it | 4 | |
| 251817118 | True | Songhay and Mali are examples of the fusion of Islamic and indigenous African cultures within the context of trade and military expansion | 5 | |
| 251817119 | True | Sundiata's exploits were celebrated by professional oral historians | 6 | |
| 251817120 | Griots | Professional oral historians | 7 | |
| 251817121 | False | The empire of Mali was agriculturally based and therefore lacked any major commercial cities | 8 | |
| 251817122 | True | Under Mohammad the Great, the empire of Songhay dominated the central Sudan | 9 | |
| 251817123 | False | As a result of Muslim conquests in Africa, the slave trade that began in classical times was abolished and those who had been enslaved were set free | 10 | |
| 251817124 | True | The common cultural element that bound the commercial cities of the east African coast together was the use of the Bantu-based and Arabic-influenced Swahili language | 11 | |
| 251817125 | True | In the early 15th century, large state-sponsored expeditions sailing directly from China stopped at the east African coast to trade for ivory, gold, and rare woods | 12 | |
| 251817126 | True | The rulers and merchants of the commercial cities of east Africa tended to be Muslim, whereas the majority of the population on the east African coast retained their previous beliefs and culture | 13 | |
| 251817127 | True | Many sub-saharan African societies, unaffected by either Christianity or Islam, developed states without systems of writing | 14 | |
| 251817128 | False | Demography, the study of population, is no longer considered a valued tool of historical inquiry because it involves so much guess work | 15 | |
| 251817129 | True | Among the greatest achievements of African art are the terra-cotta and bronze portrait heads of past rulers of the Yoruba-speaking people of Nigeria | 16 | |
| 251817130 | True | Both the Kingdom of Kongo and Great Zimbabwe were examples of states based on Bantu rather than Islamic origins | 17 | |
| 251817131 | False | Great Zimbabwe was a city-state founded among the Edo people in the 14th century by Ewuare the Great | 18 | |
| 251817132 | True | Between 800 and 1500, as contact with the outside world increased, the most significant effect on sub-Saharan Africa was the arrival of Islam | 19 | |
| 251817133 | False | In the late 15th century, the Spanish were the first Europeans to arrive on the west and east coasts of Africa | 20 | |
| 251817134 | Portugese | In the late 15th century, the ___ were the first Europeans to arrive on the east coast of Africa | 21 | |
| 251817135 | True | Prior to the arrival of the Muslims, the persistent failure of Indian rulers to unite against aggressors meant periodic disruptions and localized destruction but not fundamental challenges to the existing order | 22 | |
| 251817136 | False | There was little conflict between Hinduism and Islam because both religions were open, tolerant, and inclusive of widely varying forms of religious devotion | 23 | |
| 251817137 | Hinduism | Hinduism or Islam- open, tolerant, and inclusive of widely varying forms of religious devotion | 24 | |
| 251817138 | False | Islamic Arab conquerors refused to treat Hindus and Buddhists as protected "people of the book" because their faiths had no connection to the Bible | 25 | |
| 251817139 | Dhimi | People of the book | 26 | |
| 251874844 | False | The Arab conquerers brought Arabic numerals to the Indian subcontinent | 27 | |
| 251874845 | India | Arabic numerals are from ___ | 28 | |
| 251874846 | False | The sultans of Delhi conquered and controlled the entire Indian subcontinent for three hundred years | 29 | |
| 251874847 | False | The majority of Indian converts to Islam came from the Brahmin castes | 30 | |
| 251874848 | Lower | The majority of Indian converts to Islam came from the ____ castes | 31 | |
| 251874849 | False | The progress of Islamic conversion in southeast Asia shows that Islam had much greater success on the mainland than it did in the port cities in coastal areas | 32 | |
| 251874850 | False | In winning converts, the Sufis were never willing to allow the inhabitants of island southeast Asia to retain pre-Islamic beliefs and practices | 33 | |
| 251874851 | True | Jadaism spread not because it won converts in non-Jewish cultures but because the Jewish people were driven from their homeland by Roman persecution | 34 | |
| 251874852 | False | In Islamic southeast Asia and in sub-Saharan Africa, the position of Muslim women was weaker, especially with respect to occupation and family law, than it had become in the Middle East and India | 35 | |
| 251874853 | Stronger | In Islamic southeast Asia and in sub-Saharan Africa, the position of Muslim women was ___ than it had become in the Middle East and India | 36 | |
| 251874854 | Cities to countryside | Conversions to Islam spread from ___ to ___ | 37 | |
| 251874855 | False | Dhows were propelled by one or two large, trapezoidal lateen sails | 38 | |
| 251874856 | Triangular | Dhows were propelled by one or two large, ___ lateen sails | 39 | |
| 251874857 | False | The courtly excesses and political divisions that eventually contributed to the decline of the Abbasid empire became apparent only after the death of the third Abbasid caliph | 40 | |
| 251874858 | al-Mahdi | The third Abbasid caliph | 41 | |
| 251874859 | True | The death of caliph Harun al-Rashid's prompted the first of several full-scale civil was over succession | 42 | |
| 251874860 | True | The harem and the veil became the twin emblems of women's increasing subjugation to men and confinement to the home in the Abbasid era | 43 | |
| 251874861 | False | The Seljuk Turks were staunch Shi'a Muslims who sought to purge the Sunnis who had risen to power under the Buyids | 44 | |
| 251874862 | False | The Christian Crusades were never able to establish Christian kingdoms in the Holy Land because of the strength of the Seljuk Turks | 45 | |
| 251874863 | Pope Urban | He called for the Crusades | 46 | |
| 251874864 | True | From Muslims and Jews in Spain, Sicily, Egypt, and the Middle East the Europeans recovered much of the Greek Learning that had been lost to northern Europe during the waves of nomadic invasions after the fall of Rome | 47 | |
| 251874865 | True | According to Ibn Khaldun, dynasties do not, as a rule, last longer than one hundred and twenty years | 48 | |
| 251874866 | True | During the rule of the Abbasids, Islamic civilization outstripped all others in scientific discoveries, new techniques of investigation, and new technologies | 49 | |
| 251874867 | False | During the Abbasid period, no attempt was made by Islamic theologians to reconcile ancient Greek learning and the Koran | 50 | |
| 251874868 | Al Ghazali | Made an attempt to reconcile ancient Greek learning and the Koran | 51 | |
| 251874869 | False | Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, was selected to the be the first caliph after the death of Muhammad | 52 | |
| 251874870 | True | During the Ridda Wars, those Arabian tribes that had left the Islamic faith were forced to return to the fold | 53 | |
| 251874871 | False | The Sasanian Empire of Persia proved to be more difficult for the Arabs to conquer than the Byzantine Empire | 54 | |
| 251874872 | True | The Copts and Nestorians, although they claimed to be Christians, joined the Arab attack against the Byzatine Empire which condemned them as heretics | 55 | |
| 251874873 | True | After Ali was assassinated, his second son, Husayn, and a small party of his supporters were killed at Karbala by the Umayyads | 56 | |
| 251874874 | True | The origin of the fundamental division in Islam between the Sunnis and the Shi'a was the question of succession which arose after the death of Muhammad | 57 | |
| 251874875 | True | By the early 700s, the Umayyads ruled an empire that extended from Spain in the west to the steppes of central Asia in the east | 58 | |
| 251874876 | False | The Umayyads, who made Damascus the political center of their empire, promoted intermarriage as a means to convert to Islam those they had subjugated | 59 | |
| 251874877 | True | The Umayyads generally permitted the dhimmi, or "people of the book," to worship as they pleased | 60 | |
| 251874878 | False | Muhammad, who did not view men and women as equal before God, permitted adultery by husbands but not by their wives | 61 | |
| 251874879 | False | After the death of Muhammad, women were given a more prominent role in Muslim societies as a result of increasing political centralization and urbanization | 62 | |
| 251874880 | True | When the Umayyads abandoned the frugal, simple lifestyle of Muhammad and the earliest caliphs, the Abbasid party openly challenged Umayyad armies | 63 | |
| 251874881 | False | After the Abbasid victory at the Battle of the River Zab, the leader of the Abbasids made peace with the Umayyads at a reconciliation banquet | 64 | |
| 251874882 | False | Both the Shi'a and the mawali, who had supported the Abbasids against the Umayyads, were recognized by the Abbasid caliphs as true Muslims | 65 | |
| 251874883 | true | With the rise of the Abbasid Empire in the west and the great Tang and Song empires in the east, the revival of the Afro-Eurasian trading network occured | 66 | |
| 251874884 | False | Because the Abbasid caliphs placed such great value the skills of the artisans, slavery was banned in the Abbasid Empire | 67 | |
| 251874885 | False | The compilation of folktales in The Thousand and One Nights stresses the poverty of the peasants who could not own land during the Abbasid period | 68 | |
| 251874886 | True | During the Abbasid period, the writings of the Greeks, as well as the Indian numerical system, were translated into Arabic and spread throughout the Empire | 69 | |
| 251874887 | False | The courtyards of the great mosques were never enclosed by great domes characteristic of Greco-roman temples and Christian churches | 70 | |
| 251874888 | True | The rise of Islamic civilization from the 7th to the 9th centuries was a stunning development without precedent in human history | 71 |
