Caravanserais
True or False, Caravanserais were small, multi-building structures.
False, they were large, single-building structures, generally without roofs, that housed and fed merchants and their animals.
Bustling Islamic cities usually had populations of _____ people.
Several hundred thousand people
Most Islamic cities were also important centers of industrial production, particularly of Textiles, _____, _____, leather, _____, and steel.
Pottery, glassware, and iron
True or False, Muhammad himself was a merchant.
True
True or False, early Islamic society was entirely self reliable, and was able to prosper even without commerce.
False, early Islamic society drew much of it's prosperity from commerce.
Caravanserai is a _____ compound word meaning a place of shelter for travelers.
Persian
All Islamic cities had flourishing _____, which supported many artisans, craftsmen, and merchants.
Markets
This new industry appeared in Islamic cities during the Abbasid era.
Paper manufacture, which allowed for more books and administrative/commercial records
True or False, Muhammad disliked most merchants because he believed that they were responsible for the spread of polytheistic teachings and were generally greedy individuals.
True or False, Islamic merchants used small trade routes connecting nearby cities, but were never able to establish large trade networks in the Islamic world due to disagreements and tensions between regions.
False, there was a large trade network that linked together all regions of the Islamic world.
Name three cities with large and prosperous industries and markets
Delhi, Samarkand, Bukhara, Merv, Nishapur, Isfahan, Basra, Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, Alexandria, Palermo, Tunis, Tangier, Córdoba, and Toledo
Why was paper better to manufacture than other writing materials?
It was cheaper to produce and easier to use
The name of Muhammad's merchant tribe
The Quraish
Under which caliphate did the Arab economy grow and flourish?
The Abbasid caliphate
This material was used for writing in Arabia before paper
Vellum, made from calfskin
This caliph famously had the economy at its strongest, and famously sent an elephant to Charlemagne
Caliph Harun al-Rashid