Umayyads
Abbasids
Map Skills
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Hodge-Podge
100
The directions that the Umayyads expanded their empire from their capital in Damascus.
What is east and west?
100
How the Abbasids held onto power.
What is they have a huge standing army?
100
The time period the map covers. (Who was ruling?)
What is the Muslim Empire under the Umayyads?
100
The best definition of a golden age.
What is a time when a society or culture is at its peak?
100
Omar Khayyam's contribution to Muslim civilization.
What is he was a poet and mathematician?
200
The method that the Umayyads used to govern their empire.
What is a bureaucracy?
200
The reason that some Abbasids support the arts and learning.
What is to display their wealth?
200
The famous city located on the Iberian Peninsula.
What is Córdoba?
200
The best definition of the term factions.
What is opposing groups?
200
The potential invaders who threatened the rule of Abd al-Rahman III in al-Andalus.
Who are the Muslim and Christian armies?
300
The last Umayyad leader.
What is he escaped death and fled to Spain?
300
The role Seljuk Yurks played in the decline of the Abbasids.
What is they captured Baghdad and became rulers of the empire?
300
A city that was added to the empire by the Umayyads. (6 possible answers)
What is Toledo, Seville, Córdoba, Bukhara, Samarkand, and Kairouan?
300
The Arabic name for southern Spain.
What is al-Andalus?
300
An element that made Córdoba a major cultural center.
What are libraries?
400
The year Umayyad rule ended.
What is 750?
400
The years that Muslim science and medicine flourished. A. 711 B. 786-809 C. 1000s D. 1200s
What is c. 1000s?
400
The distance from Córdoba to Bagdad.
What is 2, 600 miles?
400
Name the Abbasid capital.
What is Damascus?
400
The contribution made by al-Zahrawi to the golden age in al-Andalus.
What is he wrote a medical encyclopedia?
500
The year that Abd al-Malik became a Caliph.
What is 685?
500
The year the Seljuk Turks captured Baghdad.
What is 1055?
500
The importance of the Mediterranean Sea to the Muslim Empire.
What is it provided a sea route between the eastern and western parts of the empire?
500
Name a reason that Abd al-Milik was an important ruler. (multiple responses)
What is he unified the empire? What is he established Arabic as the language of the government? What is he introduced common coinage?
500
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