What are the four major cities within the boundaries of the Abbasid Caliphate?
What are Carthage, Tripoli, Alexandria, and Cairo
100
What did the Islamic civilization circulate besides religion?
What is goods, technologies, food products, ideas.
100
How many husbands is it lawful for Muslim women to have?
What is One
200
What is the Islamic prayer called?
What is Salat.
200
Who was the main type of people to bring Islam to Africa?
Who are Islamic Merchants
200
What did massive migration of Arab peoples into North Africa promote?
What is "Arabization", or the adaption of religion, education, language, etc.
200
What year was Baghdad established?
What is 756 C.E.
200
How many times are Muslims required to pray each day?
What is Five times daily
300
What is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and the month where fasting is mandatory?
What is Ramadan
300
Where is one city (out of 2) where the Sea Roads reached in North Africa?
Where is Adulis or Mogadishu
300
When did Islamic powers take over the Sahara?
What is 1500 (but started in 900)
300
What are examples of domesticated crops of the Islamic Empire?
What is rice, sugarcane, hard wheat, bananas, lemons, limes, watermelon, coconut palms, cotton, spinach, artichokes.
300
Where should Muslims be facing when praying?
What is Toward holy city of Mecca
400
What is the “city of the Prophet”?
What is Medina
400
Where was the Arab scholar Ibn Battuta from?
Where is Morocco (traveled nearly 75000 miles)
400
Why was the Axum Empire famous for trade?
What is Because of its location on the Red Sea, and on the trade route between India and the Mediterranean Sea
400
Who was the greatest Arab historian and what did he do?
What is Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406 C.E.): he identified trends and structures in world history over long periods of time.
400
What is the significance of the Islamic Pillars?
What is Required for surrendering to the Divine One, Allah
500
What is the waiting period that a woman must observe after the nullification of marriage?
What is Iddah
500
Between 500-1600, the people of Sudan created a series of states, empire, and city states in Africa, why were these important for them to have?
What is All of them had carying degrees of administrative complexity and military forces at their disposal. It brought much wealth to those cities, which Sudan was able to take advantage of.
500
What river flows through the Kingdom of Mali in 1350?
What is the Niger River (Senegal River also acceptable)
500
Islams took this type of study from Greeks, Indians, and Persians and developed their own traditions.
What is astrology.
500
What is the authorized armed struggle against forces of unbelief?