Umayyad Caliphate
What was the name of the tax non-Muslims had to pay in order to worship freely?
What is the Jizya
What are some of the topics the Abbasids researched?
(Name 2)
What is medicine, math, science, astrology, logic, and metaphysics
What group ended the Abbasid Caliphate and started the Ottoman Empire?
Who is the Seljuk Turks
Which sig fig went on a hajj to Mecca and spread their wealth in the areas to which they traveled?
Who is Mansa Musa
What was the nickname for the military of the Ottoman Empire?
What is the people of the sword
What was the name of the Muslim law?
What is the Sharia
What location in Baghdad was the center of knowledge?
What is the House of Wisdom
What were Janissaries?
What is captured Christian boys
What are the 4 rightly guided Caliphs?
Who are Abu Bakr, Omar, Uthman, and Ali
Which group believed only descendants of Muhammad could be caliphs?
Who are the Shia
What is the order of the Umayyad Caliphate hierarchy?
(Most -> Least)
What is Muslims at birth > People who converted to Islam > People of the book (Jews and Christians) > Slaves of war (all non-Muslims)
How did the army change from the Umayyad Caliphate to the Abbasid Caliphate?
What is the army started to include non-Arabs
What group made up the majority of slaves in the Ottoman Empire?
Who is Christians
Who is the main character of the Sufi Jihad?
Who is Al-Rumi
When did the Islamic Empire Start and End?
When is 661-early 1900s
What year was the Umayyad Caliphate established?
What is 661 A.D.
What rights did women get in the Abbasid Caliphate?
What is roles in government, property rights, dowry rights
What was the large structure in the Ottoman Empire that compared to the House of Wisdom during the Abbasid Caliphate?
What is the Hagia Sofia
Who wrote the primary source, Memoirs of a Janissary?
Who was Konstantin Mihailovic
Why were Islamic Rulers considered subjectively “nice” to Christian rulers?
What is because Christians living in the Islamic Empire were very tolerant and paid the Jizya
Why did the people of the book have more power than non-Muslims?
What is they had more power because like Islam, they were Abrahamic religions
What was the main social change from the Umayyad Caliphate to the Abbasid Caliphate?
What is the population of non-Arabs in the Islamic empire
What shift of power occurred from the Abbasid Caliphate to the Ottoman Empire?
What is the shift from Arabs to non-Arabs
Scribe of the prophet who established the Umayyad Caliphate following the death of the original 4 Caliphs
Who is Muawiya I
Where was the majority of the Shia population located?
What is the Middle East