chapter 7 Flashcards
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| 89054794 | What problems were the Abbasid facing from Shi'a opposition? | - revolts and assassination attempts | 0 | |
| 89054795 | What problem continued to go on even after the death of Al-Mahdi | -Arguing about who will the successor | 1 | |
| 89054796 | Who did Harun al-Rashid become heavily dependent upon during his reign? | - a family of persian advisors | 2 | |
| 89054797 | what problems began surfacing in the royal court of the Muslim Empire that was very similar to problems China felt during the Han Dynasty? | - advisers got more and more powerful; people on the thrown turned into figure heads | 3 | |
| 89054798 | What occured after Harun's death? | -several full scale civil wars over succession | 4 | |
| 89054799 | What became the solution to potential heirs to the Muslim Empire in regards to civil war? | -build personal armies | 5 | |
| 89054800 | How did slave mercenaries play a role in the decline of the Abbasids? | - 846 c.e. slave mercenaries murdered the reigning caliph -mercenaries became a major force for social unrest. | 6 | |
| 89054801 | List the three causes for the Muslim Empire's treasure have on Muslim people? | - constant civil violence - construction of public works - the armies needed more money | 7 | |
| 89054802 | What affect did the low funds in the treasury have on Muslim people? | -people had to pay taxes - great irrigation works needed for agriculture broke down and in some areas collapsed entirely. -peasants perished due to famine, flood, or violent assaults - others fled to wilderness areas - some formed bandit gangs | 8 | |
| 89054803 | What two things become common practices in gender relations during the Abbasid era? | - the harem - women wearing a veil. | 9 | |
| 89054804 | What is a harem? | - wives and slaves are confined to a certain part of the home | 10 | |
| 89054805 | How were female slaves treated in comparison to freeborn women? | - more personal freedom - could win their freedom and gain power by bearing healthy sons for rulers - learned more | 11 | |
| 89054806 | What difference was there in gender relations between lower class and upper class women? | - lower class women could have jobs and upper class could not. | 12 | |
| 89054807 | What took place in 945 in the Muslim Empire? | - Buyids captured Baghdad | 13 | |
| 89054808 | What does sultan translate to mean? | - victorious | 14 | |
| 89054809 | What group replaced the Buyids around 1055? | - seljuk turks -kill a lot of the Shi'a and Byzantines | 15 | |
| 89054810 | What two things allowed the First Crusade to become a success | - muslim political division - element of surprise | 16 | |
| 89054811 | Who would successfully lead the Muslims during the end of the 12th century? | - salah- ud din | 17 | |
| 89054812 | List the areas of influence the Muslims had on Europe after the Crusades? | - new weaponry - techniques of building fortifications - modern medicine | 18 | |
| 89054813 | What language nearly replaced Arabic entirely in Muslim culture? | - persian | 19 | |
| 89054814 | What two works are considered masterpieces of Muslim writing? | - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Shan- hama; ferdaissi firawsi | 20 | |
| 89054815 | What advances did Muslims make in the field of math? | - algebra, geometry, trigonometry | 21 | |
| 89054816 | What discoveries were found in the field of chemistry? | - creation of objective experiment - Razi's scheme of classifying all material | 22 | |
| 89054817 | Why did Cairo's hospitals have the best physicians? | - doctors had to pass a course of study and end of course test in order to practice. | 23 | |
| 89054818 | What trend emerged in the Muslim religious community after the Crusades? | - suspicious of non- Islamic ideas and scientific thinking | 24 | |
| 89054819 | What did sufis seek? | - wondering mystics who sought personal union with Allah. | 25 | |
| 89054820 | What group began invading the Abbasid empire in the early 13th century and who led these people? | - Mongols -Chinggis Khan | 26 | |
| 89054821 | Who took control of this group later during the 1250s and took the capital Baghdad? | - Hulegu | 27 | |
| 89054822 | Who were the Mamluks? | - Turkic slaves who then ruled Egypt - defeated Mongols in late 1200s | 28 | |
| 89054823 | How were the HIndu and Muslim faiths in direct opposition to one another? | - Islam is much more structured - Hindu is more flexible | 29 | |
| 89054824 | what was the first contact between Muslim and HIndu groups around 711? | - peaceful trading contacts - attack by sind pirates on same arab traders. | 30 | |
| 89054825 | How did Mahmud of Ghazni affect northern India? | - began to invade and raid northern India | 31 | |
| 89054826 | Where did these Muslims place their capitol? Why is this significant? | - Delhi - not associated with the Umayyads or the abbasids | 32 | |
| 89054827 | Where did most Indian converts to Islam come from? | - Buddhists or low cast groups and untouchables. - shudras | 33 | |
| 89054828 | Why did India become a place of refuge for many Muslims around the 13th and 14th centuries? | - Mongols and tinerants are invading the middle east - Muslims are running for their lives to India | 34 | |
| 89054829 | What sort of social relationship did Hindus ave with their Muslim conquerors? | - saw them as out castes; animosity; did not interact with them | 35 | |
| 89054830 | Explain what the majority of HIndus believe would happen to their Muslim conquerors as had happened to previous invading groups. | - they would be absorbed | 36 | |
| 89054831 | How were women in India affected by the Muslim invasion? | - sati; widows threw themselves onto their husbands dead burning bodies - lost a lot of rights - widows couldn't remarry | 37 | |
| 89054832 | After Hundus realized the Muslim faith was not going to be absorbed what did they resort to in order to keep more people from converting to Islam? | - put a greater emphasis on devotion - Bhaktic cults included women and untouchables - for personal relationships with gods or goddesses | 38 | |
| 89054833 | How did these cults stem the flow of converts to Islam? | - increase involvement in Hindu worship in all groups | 39 | |
| 89054834 | Why did neither the Muslims or Hindus of India really absorb the other? | - Both worked hard to keep themselves seperate | 40 | |
| 89054835 | What group prevented the spread of Muslim ideas in the Southeast Asia? | -Shrivijaya | 41 | |
| 89054836 | what city played a vital role in the spread of Islam across Southeast Asia? | - Malacca | 42 | |
| 89054837 | Why were the Sufis so successful in converting people? | - they varied in personality and approach - allowed people of southeast Asia to keep some ideas of the various religions in the area | 43 | |
| 89054838 | how were women treated in this are of Muslim control? | - much stronger status in family and community than other areas - lineage still traced through the woman | 44 |