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Islam/Muslims
Umayyad
Abbasid
Muslim Empire
What Year?
100
This religion started in this empire.
What is the Islamic religion?
100
This is what happened to the last of the Umayyad leaders.
What is only one Umayyad ruler escaped death and fled to Spain?
100
The Abbadis held on to power by having this.
What is a huge standing army?
100
This is Ms. A's favorite college basketball team.
What is UCLA?
100
This is the year that Umayyads take power.
What is 661 A.D.?
200
This temple is located in the city of Mecca.
What is the Ka'aba?
200
Name at least two things the Umayyads did to help unify the Muslim Empire.
What is common coinage, bureaucracy, common language (Arabic), demanded all Muslims complete a hajj (pilgrimage) every year?
200
The Abbasids supported the arts and learning for this reason.
What is to display their wealth?
200
The Mediterranian Sea was important to the Muslim Empire because of this reason.
What is it provided a sea route between the western and eastern parts of the empire?
200
This is the year Umayyad rule ended.
What is 750 A.D.?
300
This is the person we celebrate on January 20th (also there is no school for this person's b-day celebration).
What is January 20th?
300
These potential invaders threatened the rule of Abd al-Rahman III in al-Andalus.
Who are the Muslim and Christian armies?
300
Omar Khayyam contributed to the Muslim civilization in this way.
What is he was a poet and mathematician?
300
The pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca helped to unify the Muslim Empire in this way.
What is the people from all over the empire shared their languages and cultures?
300
This is the year Muslim science and medicine flourished.
What is in the 1000s?
400
The introduction of Arabic as the language of government for all Muslim lands had this impact.
What is people throughtout the empire could communicate with one another?
400
The Christian forces in Europe wanted to defeat the Umayyads in Spain for this reason.
What is the Muslims were threatening to move north into France?
400
The Seljuk Turks played this role in the decline of the Abbasids.
What is they captured Baghdad and became rulers ofthe empire?
400
The Fatimids believed they should be the legitmate caliphs for this reason.
What is they claimed to be direct descendants of Muhammad?
400
Abd al-Malik became Caliph in this year.
What is the year 685 A.D.?
500
Some Muslims protested against the Umayyad rule because of this reason.
What is they believed the Umayyads did not take their religious duties seriously
500
Cordoba is located in this area.
What is on the Iberian Peninsula?
500
al-Zahrawi made this cotnirbution in the golden Age in al-Andalus.
What is he wrote the medical encyclopedia?
500
The ability to make paper affected the Empire for this reason.
What is books allowed more people to gain and pass on knowledge, leading to the golden age?
500
The Seljuk Turks captured Baghdad in this year.
What is the year 1055 A.D.?