Spread of Islam
What was the name of the city founded by the Abbasids in 754?
Baghdad
What unique shape was Al-Mansur's new capital city?
Circle
What trade network brought knowledge from India and China?
Silk Road
What was the Islamic centre of learning called?
House of Wisdom
Which Arab learning institutions were replicated by Europeans and survive to this day?
Universities
The prophet Muhammad was born in what city?
Mecca
Because there was no stone, Al-Mansur had to build his new capital out of?
Bricks
What was the most important Chinese invention for the Arabs?
Paper
What was the Islamic invention that allowed accurate calculations of time and latitude?
Astrolabe
In which century did the Abbasid empire decline?
10th (900-1000)
What was the name of the first Islamic empire that predated the Abbasids?
Umayyads
Al Mansur spent the most on.....
Books
Constantinople
What branch of mathematics was invented by the Arabs?
Algebra
Name one of the two Islamic cities that began to compete with the Abbasids as centres of knowledge.
Cairo or Cordoba
How could you continue to practice a different religion in areas conquered by the Muslims?
Pay the jizyah (tax is fine)
The Arabs would make what in the margins of old books? (hint: it begins with C)
Commentaries
Which Indian innovation succeeded Roman numerals and allowed complex calculations?
Zero
Arab scientists made important breakthroughs in understanding in what human body system?
Circulatory
As the Abbasid empire shrank, they were forced to move their capital to.... (hint it begins with a S)
Samarra
What was the name of the city that the Abbasids captured that gave them control of Persia?
Khurasan
Al-Mansur's new city was based on the calculations of which Greek mathematician?
Euclid
What Indian book allowed more precise astronomy?
The Siddhanta
Arab scientists were able to make breakthroughs in what science that deals with sight?
Optics
The Abbasids went into decline after the death of which Caliph?
Al-Mamum