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| 5522577700 | What was the missio of Muhammad? | Tell the jews they are not the chosen people, tell the christians they are confused, and turn arabs monothesistic | 0 | |
| 5522577701 | What are the five pillars? | Witness, prayer, alms, ramadan, haji | 1 | |
| 5522577702 | Explain the pillar of witness | Allah is God nd Muhammad is his prophet. | 2 | |
| 5522577703 | Explain the pillar of prayer | Pray 5 times a day | 3 | |
| 5522577704 | Explain the pillar of alms | Give charity to the poor | 4 | |
| 5522577705 | Explain the pillar of ramadan | Fasting of the month | 5 | |
| 5522577706 | Explain the pillar of haji | Pilgrimage to mecca | 6 | |
| 5522577707 | Someone who leads prayers | Imam | 7 | |
| 5522577708 | People of the community, like "the church" | Umma | 8 | |
| 5522577709 | Place of worship, Friday | Mosque | 9 | |
| 5522577710 | Struggle in God's service | Jihad | 10 | |
| 5522577711 | The holy book | Quran | 11 | |
| 5522577712 | Law code | Sharia | 12 | |
| 5522577713 | Successor to the prophet | Caliph | 13 | |
| 5522577714 | Who takes over father Ali's death? | Muawiya | 14 | |
| 5522577715 | Anyone who wasn't an arab who converted | Mawali | 15 | |
| 5522577716 | Famous caliphate | Human al-Rashid | 16 | |
| 5522577717 | Arab ships | Dhows | 17 | |
| 5522577718 | Moey | Dinar | 18 | |
| 5522577719 | Banks that offered letters of credit | Sakks | 19 | |
| 5522577720 | Muslims preserved greek writings and placed them in | House of Wisdom | 20 | |
| 5522577721 | Muslims had a highly successful, prosperous and expansive civilization, encompassing parts of | Africa, europe, the middle east, and asia | 21 | |
| 5522577722 | What happened in the early 600s? | Cities developed along trading routes in Arabia | 22 | |
| 5522577723 | Why was Mecca so important? | Trading routes and pilgrims | 23 | |
| 5522577724 | Which clan grew wealthy by taxing the local trade that accompanied the annual pilgrimage season? | Quraysh | 24 | |
| 5522577725 | Which clan was Muhammad from? | Qurasyh | 25 | |
| 5524208994 | Where did Muhammad receive many revelations from Angel Gabriel? | The hills where he meditated | 26 | |
| 5524379091 | Where did Muhammad go where people accepted his religion that banned idols? | Medina | 27 | |
| 5524379092 | In Medina, Muhammad grew not only as a religious leader but also as | Leader and law giver | 28 | |
| 5524379093 | When Muhammad returned to Mecca after the war, what did he destroy? | Idols in the Ka'ba | 29 | |
| 5524379094 | Was Islam considered a new faith? | No, an invitation to return to the old and pure religion of Abraham | 30 | |
| 5524379095 | What was submission to Allah? | Achieving a God conscious life in this world and a place of paradise after death | 31 | |
| 5524379096 | What did the Quran denounce? | Retailing of social practices of a increasingly prosperous Mecca | 32 | |
| 5524379097 | What did the Umma replace? | Tribal ethnic or racial identities | 33 | |
| 5524379098 | What are the other 2 interpretations of jihad? | Spiritual effort to overcome immorality with themselves, some have engaged warfare to spread or defend Islam | 34 | |
| 5524379099 | Why was the Quran spread? | New technology of paper making. As Arab Armies defeated Chinese, they learned from prisoners of war | 35 | |
| 5524379100 | Same God that s worshipped by Christians and Jews | People of the Book, Dhimmis | 36 | |
| 5524379101 | Rich or poor, what were women responsible for? | Raising children | 37 | |
| 5524379102 | Who was elected caliph after Muhammad? | Abu Bakr | 38 | |
| 5524379103 | Why did the first few caliphs not encourage conversion to Islam? | Te political and social status of conqueror ad conquered become confused | 39 | |
| 5524379104 | Earlier caliphs left taxing systems in place, but what did they change about the government? | new government confiscated lands that had been owned by the state and its officials and claimed them for itself. | 40 | |
| 5524379105 | What did the jockeying in power between political, economic, tribal, and religious interests groups cause? | Civil wars | 41 | |
| 5524379106 | Who were the supporters of Ali called? | Shi'a or Shi'ites | 42 | |
| 5524379107 | Who was the other candidate against Ali? | One from the Umayyad clan, they were called Sunnis | 43 | |
| 5524379108 | After Ali was assassinated, who became the caliph? | Mu'awiya | 44 | |
| 5524379109 | Why did Umayyad Caliphate (Mu'awiya) move the capital out of Arabia and into Damascus? | To distanced himself himself from the original Muslim elite of the Arabian peninsula | 45 | |
| 5524379110 | What did the Umayyad caliphate do to symbolize their imperial power? | Constructed elegant mosques in Jerusalem, Medina, Damascus | 46 | |
| 5524379111 | What features of imperial structures did Umayyad copy and from who did they copy? | Byzantine and Persian Empire- imperial conquest, bureaucracy in administration, monumentality in architecture and regal opulence at court. | 47 | |
| 5524379112 | What language did Umayyad use? | Arabic | 48 | |
| 5524379113 | Did Umayyad encourage conversion? | Yes | 49 | |
| 5524379114 | Where did Umayyad expand to? | North Africa to Spain. All the way to the Indus River. | 50 | |
| 5524379115 | In what battle did Umayyad defeat China? | Battle of Talas River | 51 | |
| 5524379116 | After the Battle of Talas River, what changed? | Cultural evolution on Asia, further expansion of China to the west, and made it possible the conversion to Islam of Central Asia's Turkic-speaking people | 52 | |
| 5524379117 | Merchant leaders of Umayyad wanted to capture | profitable trade routes and wealthy agricultural regions | 53 | |
| 5524379118 | Individual Arabs found in military expansion what | A route to wealth and social promotion | 54 | |
| 5524379119 | Many also viewed the mission of empire in terms of jihad, meaning what | Brining righteous government to the peoples they conquered, this did not mean imposing a new religion | 55 | |
| 5524379120 | What problems did Umayyad face as they expanded? | Adapt from desert life to large cities, moved capital | 56 | |
| 5524379121 | How did Umayyad gover their empire? | They relied on local officials, including educated Jews, Greeks and Persians | 57 | |
| 5524453124 | What resulted from using educated Jews, Greeks and Persians in the Umayyad government? | Byzantine and Persian traditions of government influenced Arab rulers. | 58 | |
| 5524453125 | When vast wealth came in the Umayyad, what happened? | Increasing tension between wealthy Arabs and poor | 59 | |
| 5524712287 | Why | 60 | ||
| 5524712288 | Why were the Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly? | The Byzantine Empire an Sassanid empire were weakened by decades of war and internal revolts, Arabs were passionate with their new faith, Warrior killed in a jihad was promised immediate entry into paradise, Arabian peninsula was badly overpopulated | 61 | |
| 5524712289 | Why was Islam so successful? | Clear codes of conduct, People impressed with the success of their merchants, military and political. They were religiously tolerant toward dhimmis. Non Muslims did experience inequalities. Merchants more likely to convert—good for business. Poor people—spiritual equality. | 62 | |
| 5524712290 | People of the Book | Dhimmis | 63 | |
| 5524712291 | What was the results of Islam success? | Tolerant rulers (convert, pay tax, or die), conquered people began to accept Islam, 2 classes of upper class Arab and non Arab Muslims called Mawali, | 64 | |
| 5524712292 | Non Arab muslims were called | Mawali | 65 | |
| 5524712293 | What did the clear ideal ruler of Islam do? | Uphold laws and obligations of the religion and use the state to advance Islam | 66 | |
| 5524712294 | What is one crucial difference between Islam and Christianity? | Christianity was born outside the state. | 67 | |
| 5524712295 | What did Islam think about slaves? | They did not like slaves, especially not Muslim slaves. They tolerated it and provided protection for Muslim slaves | 68 | |
| 5524712296 | Muslims who believed that the killing of Husain was wrong became known as | Shiites | 69 | |
| 5524712297 | Shiite denied the authority of the Umayyad caliphs and supported the | Abbasids | 70 | |
| 5524712298 | Did the Abbasids like the Shiites? | No, they sometimes persecuted them | 71 | |
| 5524712299 | What did the Abbasids do against Umayyad? | They revolted | 72 | |
| 5524712300 | Who lead the revolt? | Dependent from Abbas, uncle of Muhammad | 73 | |
| 5524712301 | How did the Abbasid run their government? | Allowed Malawi be part of government, strong bureaucracy, diplomats sent to the courts of Europe and Asia to conduct business | 74 | |
| 5524712302 | When did Abbasid reach its height of its power and prosperity? | Under Huran al-Rashid | 75 | |
| 5524712303 | What bonded the many groups of Abbasid? | Islamic faith and Arabic language | 76 | |
| 5524712304 | The Abbasid could be considered a time period of | Great urban expansion | 77 | |
| 5524712305 | What were some of the good things the Abbasid did? | Old Silk Trade routes were revived, Arabs sailed dhows all over the Indian Ocean, artisans and merchants were well received, unskilled labor was left to slaves | 78 | |
| 5524712306 | How did Abbasid increase their authority? | Consulting religious leaders | 79 | |
| 5526862523 | What did the Abbasid fail to do government wise? | To keep complete political control of the immense territory | 80 | |
| 5526862524 | Although politically divided, the Abbasid remained unified through what | Religion, language, and trade | 81 | |
| 5526862525 | What were the two major trading zones? | Mediterranean and Indian ocean | 82 | |
| 5526862526 | What was the currency? | Abbasid dinar | 83 | |
| 5526862527 | What did muslims do to encourage the flow of trade? | Money changers set up banks throughout the empire (sakks) | 84 | |
| 5526862528 | What was the biggest urban center? | Baghdad | 85 | |
| 5526862529 | Why was Baghdad wealthy? | Location - center of Caliphs palace, 4 broad avenues | 86 | |
| 5526862530 | Which area strongly influenced the Arab life? | Persia | 87 | |
| 5526862531 | Baghdad was also called what? | City of Peace, Gift of God, Paradise on Earth. | 88 | |
| 5526862532 | What was the order of hierarchy in Baghdad | Upper class (Muslim birth), converts (had to pay a higher tax), dhimmis, slaves | 89 | |
| 5526862533 | What are dhimmis? | Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrianism | 90 | |
| 5526862534 | What were scholars inspired by? | Ancient greek sources | 91 | |
| 5526862535 | Where did scholars put Greek literature | House of Wisdom | 92 | |
| 5526862536 | First chemical laboratories | Alchemists | 93 | |
| 5526862537 | Wrote volumes on how to treat disease | Razes and Avicenna | 94 | |
| 5526862538 | He adopted the Indian numeral system because the Greeks nor Romans had the concept of 0 | Al-Jabre | 95 | |
| 5526862539 | Known for his four line poems called Rubaiyat | Omar Khayyam | 96 | |
| 5526862540 | Why did the Abbasid decline? | Abbasid control over Arab empire fragmented. Civil wars with the lousy government, visions (Seljuk Turks, Crusaders, Mongols) | 97 |
