Achievements
What is the book about the woman who told stories to the sultan so she could survive the next day?
Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights
Suleiman I ushered in the ______ Age of Ottoman history.
Golden
What is the sacred book of Islam?
Koran
What brought about the end of the Abbasids?
Mongols surrounded Baghdad and destroyed it
What was the Jizya?
A head tax paid by all non-Muslims in Islamic lands
What specific features characterize religious Islamic art?
Islamic religious art has words written beautifully in Arabic script accompanied by arabesques; script and floral designs
Selim I forced his father to resign and executed Ahmet and Korkut, both of which were his ________.
Brothers
Which country has the world’s largest Muslim community?
Indonesia
How did the Umayyad dynasty end completely?
The family members were assassinated by the first Caliph Abul’ Abbas al-Saffah
Which family ruled the Ottoman Empire for seven centuries?
Osman 1 and his posterity until Selim II
What was the greatest contribution to the world during the Age of Islam?
Islamic medicine
Which ruler reigned from 1444-1446, then 1451 -1481, and also renamed Istanbul?
Mehmed II
______ replaced some traditional religions such as Buddhism.
Islam
The end of the Abbasids marked the end of what?
The Golden Age of Islam
What Muhammad quote expresses his hope for Muslims?
"The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr."
Under which dynasty was the achievement of the first hospital created?
Abbasid Dynasty
What part of the Ottoman empire did Sultan Kanuni rule over?
Eastern
Name three ways Islam was spread.
Merchants; trade; conquering new territory; transfer of ideas; spread of culture, religion, and language; Baghdad as the center of learning
How did the Safavid empire decline?
The economy declined, and there was pressure from Ottoman and Uzbek armies
What is Urdu?
Persian mixed with Hindi and Arabic
What were the three Muslim astronomers that discovered more about the motion of the sun?
Al-Battani, al-Sufi, al-Biruni, and Ibn Yunus
This Shah brought prosperity to Iran and made peace with the Ottomans.
Shah Abbas I
What are the five pillars of faith of Islam?
Shahadah, Salah, Zakah, Sawm, and Hajj OR Faith, Prayer, Charity, Fasting, and Pilgrimage
When did the Mughal Empire end and why?
In 1858 due to invasions and wars
What did the Ottoman Empire ban in 1500?
Shi’a