Islam
What were people who were Islamic called?
Muslims
What is a caliph?
political and spiritual leaders
What bodies of water was the Arabian Peninsula in between?
The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf
The Umayyad Empire controlled what percent of the world's population while they reigned?
Roughly 30%
How did Muslim scientists prefer solving problems?
By conducting experiments
Where was Islam first preached?
Who was the first caliph after Muhammad?
Rashidun Caliphate
Arabia lies at the crossroads of what continents?
Asia, Africa, and Europe
What type of Muslims were the Umayyad rulers?
Sunni Muslims
Who was the Jewish physician and philosopher who was born in Cordoba?
Moses Ben Maimon
What is the Holy Book called?
Qu'ran
Where was Muhammad born?
Mecca
The location of the Arabian Peninsula was negative because it was…
Too dry and hot
What did people under the Umayyad rule have to do if they were not Sunni Muslims?
Pay an additional tax
What did Muslim scholars think was the basis of all knowledge?
Mathematics
Which god did Islams believe in?
Allah
Where was Muhammad meditating when an angel spoke to him?
Cave Hira (near Mecca)
The location of the Arabian Peninsula was positive because it was good for…
Trade and trade routes
When did problems start for the Umayyad caliphs?
During the 8th Century
What word means“the art of bringing together unknowns to match a known quantity”?
al-jabr or algebra
Mecca, Medina
Which angel spoke to Muhammad?
Gabriel
How much of the Arabian Peninsula is covered by desert?
Around 3/4
What also slowed when the expansion of the Umayyad empire slowed?
Revenue coming into the government.
What was the House of Wisdom?
a library, academy, and translation center