Geography
What country did the Ottoman Empire arise in?
What is Turkey?
After Muhammad died, who led the Muslim community and empire?
What are the caliphs?
A family that passes down political power from one relative to another
What is a dynasty?
T/F Followers of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism were treated with the same respect as Jews and Christians?
What is False?
Explain the roles of men and women
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What was the center of sea and land trade routes and an important stopover for pilgrims on their way from Africa to Mecca?
What is Cairo.
What marked the end of the last major Mesopotamian civilization?
What does "caliph" mean?
What is "successor"
What school was founded under the Shia Fatimid dynasty?
What is Al-Azhar university?
Even though power changed from Arabs to non-Arabs and the caliphate age had ended, explain how Islam continued to spread?
What are merchants and Sufism?
What 3 continents did Muslim expand to?
Who founded the first Muslim dynasty?
What is the Umayyads?
What is a Sultan?
What is a ruler of a Muslim state?
What did Muslims refer to Jews and Christians as in respect to their religion?
What is "People of the Book"
What were the reasons for the success of the Muslim Empire?
What is the decline of the Persian and Byzantine empires and the devotion of Muslim warriors.
What is Persia known as today?
What is Iran?
How else did the Umayyads succeed in expansion (besides conquest)
What are treaties with foreign lands?
An Islamic lifestyle that stresses controlling one's desires, giving up worldly attachments, and seeking nearness to God.
Under the Abbasids, what capital became the center of a golden age of art, science, and learning?
What is Baghdad?
What are the distinct differences between the Shias and the Sunnis?
+10 What are the similarities?
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Looking at the map located on page 104, what were the cities were conquered in 661?
What are Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Baghdad?
Explain what made the Ottoman Empire so powerful?
What is a strong military and the Janissary Corps?
Who is Muhammad?
Bonus points (+15) What did he preach?
What is the prophet of Islam?
What is he told Arabs to worship only one God and to change their behaviors?
What are the social divisions (in order) of the Arab Muslim Empire?
What are Arab Muslims, non-Arab Muslims, Jews, and Christians, and then slaves
+800 A brief timeline of the Muslim dynasties and one of their distinct characteristics
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