Fun Facts
Relationship between Jews, Christians and Muslims
Muslims And Spain
Flourishing in Muslim Spain
Reasons for Rapid Expansion of Muslim World
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This is the total number of muslims in the world today.
What is 1.2 Billion? EC: 1 out of every 5 people.
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This is the meaning of "people of the book."
There were Jews, Christians, Muslims. They were the three monotheistic religions.
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This was the name of the muslims who settled in North Africa
Who were the Burbers
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This was why Cordoba flourished and was a seed of the Rennaisance.
What is a was great religious tolerance and collaboration between great scholars.
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This is why monotheism was one of the causes of the muslim expansion
What is: monotheism gave europeans a sense of purpose, and closeness to god, which made Europeans willing to join the muslim empire. Different from being conquered by a barbarian horde. Muslim conquest was in the name of god, not in the name of any one man like Alexader the Great, Napolean, or Genghis Khan.
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This is the largest muslim nation in the world.
What is Indonesia?
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This is the way that muslims treated Jews and Christians in general.
What is tolerance, but with special taxes.
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This city was the central point of Islam when it lost control of Spain.
What is Baghdad.
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This is why muslim intellectuals flocked to Andalusia
What is Abdul Rahman III declaration of independence in Spain.
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This is another reason why muslims were able to expand so quickly.
What is the fact the muslims beat people up once in a while to remind them who was boss. IN other words, m=the muslims used both monotheistic appeal, as well as militaristic rule by force, to spread their empire.
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This is the percent of all muslims who live in the middle east
What is 15 to 18%?
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This city was seen as a "dim light" in the otherwise dark middle ages of western europe and where the seeds of the Rennaisance were planted.
What is Cordoba, along with Toledo.
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This is the impact did the muslim expansion have on the burning of ancient texts?
What is the fact that muslims valued ancient culture and prevented these texts from being burned.
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THese are the two groups responsible for the Succession Problem
Who are the Sunni and the Shi'ite. EC: The succession problem caused the ultimate downfall of the muslim empire.
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This is the total muslim population in France
What is 5 million. EC: England and Germany each has 2 million, and Europe will likey have a muslim majority by the end of the century.
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THis is the role of Mohammad
What was the fact that Mohammad showed mercy to the meccans after destroying their idols, so they didn't resist him.
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This is why Cordoba was
Science and Technology flowed to Spain from the Middle East and the Byzantine Empire -Astronomy -Natural Sciences - Engineering
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THis is the percent of all muslims who live in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka
What is 25%? EC: Africa has 20%
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This was called the "Reconquista"
What began in the middle of the 900s, and involved the forcing out of both Jews and Muslims from spain, as well as the horrific Spanish Inquisition. EC: Even before Reconquista, the struggle for power in Spain led to the two sides become Puritanical in ther approach to religion, and the greatness of Andalusia was lost.
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