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This term refers to the Spanish-Jewish culture.
What is Sephardic?
100
Opposing groups who challenge rule are known by this term.
What is a faction?
100
This peninsula in southwestern Europe was the western edge of the Muslim Empire.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
100
This was the subject of the encyclopedia written by al-Zahrawi.
What is medicine?
100
This was the official language of the Umayyad government.
What is Arabic?
200
The art of fine handwriting is known as this.
What is calligraphy?
200
A soldier who is paid to fight, often times in a foreign country, is known as this.
What is a mercenary?
200
Muslim governors appointed by the caliphs were known by this title.
What is an emir?
200
Besides declaring an official language, Abd al-Malik unified the Umayyad empire by issuing these.
What are coins?
200
The religious pilgrimage to Mecca is known as this.
What is a Hajj (Hijrah)
300
This was Abd al-Rahman III's great City of Wonders.
What was Cordoba?
300
These were the Turkish attackers of the Abbasids.
Who were the Seljuk Turks?
300
An army that is ready during peace time and wartime is known as this.
What is a standing army?
300
A system of government agencies is known as this.
What is a bureaucracy?
300
This was the Abbasid capital in Iraq.
What is Baghdad?
400
The capital of the Muslim empire was moved by these people to Syria.
Who were the Umayyads?
400
The Iberian peninsula is comprised of these two modern day countries.
What are Spain and Portugal?
400
This Persian poet wrote The Rubaiyat.
Who was Omar Khayyam?
400
This group of people benefited from the hospitals that the Abbasids started.
Who were the poor?
400
This group of Muslims claimed to be the descendants of Muhammad's daughter, Fatima.
Who were the Fatimids?
500
The Fatimids set up their capital in this Egyptian city.
What is Cairo?
500
In 1258, this Central Asian tribe overran Baghdad, destroying the city and killing the caliph.
Who were the Mongols?
500
This was the Arabic name for southern Spain.
What is al-Andalus?
500
This was the center of Al-Idrisi's world map.
What is Mecca?
500
He was the most noted Jewish scholar of al-Andalus.
Who was Maimonides?
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