AP World History Final- Chapter 8 Flashcards
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| 271276053 | Who was Muhammad? | founder of Islam | 0 | |
| 271276054 | Shi'ites | Muslims who believe that God rests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali | 1 | |
| 271276055 | Sunnis | Muslims who believed that the community should select its own leadership | 2 | |
| 271276056 | What is the most important resource in the desert? | Water | 3 | |
| 271276057 | What does Muslim mean? | Those who surrender to God | 4 | |
| 271276058 | What was the capital of the Umayyad dynasty? | Damascus | 5 | |
| 271276059 | What was the capital of the Abbasid dynasty? | Baghdad | 6 | |
| 271276060 | Caliphate | Office in succession to the Prophet Muhammad | 7 | |
| 271276061 | What marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar? | Muhammad's hijra to Medina | 8 | |
| 271276062 | Five Pillars of Islam | 1. Avowal that there is only one god and Muhammad is his messenger 2. Prayer five times a day 3. Fasting during the lunar month of Ramadan 4. Paying alms 5. Making pilgrimage to Mecca at least once during one's lifetime | 9 | |
| 271276063 | What is the Quran? | The unalterable word of god. Islam's "bible" | 10 | |
| 271276064 | What is the law of Islam called? | Shari'a | 11 | |
| 271276065 | How does one become Muslim? | One has to say "There is no God, but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God" in the presence of a Muslim | 12 | |
| 271276066 | What was the role of women? | Rarely traveled, veiled in public, could inherit property, practice birth control | 13 | |
| 271276067 | Who could not be enslaved? | Other Muslims, Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians | 14 |