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The Middle East
Arabs and Europe
Music
What's It Called in Arabic?
Arab Inventions
100
The Middle East is comprised of how many countries
22
100
What part of Italy did Arabs conquer?
Sicily
100
The singer of C'est la Vie , Khaled is from what country?
Algeria
100
What is potato called in Arabic?
Albtatis
100
Which country first brewed coffee?
Yemen
200
What continents are the middle east in?
Asia and Africa
200
What Turkish Empire invaded and conquered Europe?
The Ottoman Emire
200
What country is Nancy Ajram from.
Lebanon
200
What is Jordan called in Arabic?
Al-ordon
200
Hospitals as we know them today with wards and teaching centers came about during the 9th century in what country?
Egypt
300
Is Iran considered a part of the Middle East?
No
300
What area in Spain still has a large portion of Arab influence?
El Andulus
300
What singer was nicknamed kawkeb eo-sharq, planet of the east?
Umm Kalthoum
300
How do you say homework in Arabic?
Wajib
300
In 859 a young princess named Fatima al-Firhi founded the first degree-granting university in what country?
Morocco
400
What is the country of Algerian known as/called besides Algeria?
Land of the Martyrs or Land of the million Martyrs
400
What year did the conquest of Sicily begin and what year did it end?
Began 827and ended 902
400
Who is responsible for the change of Arab music from very soft and monotonous with no recognizable rhythmic structure to to one of rhythm?
Sayyed Darwish
400
How do you say computer in Arabic?
Al hasoob
400
What did Ibn Al-Haytham write about in some of his 200 published books in the 1000s? Hint: It's discovery is mostly accredited to Isaac Newton
Gravity
500
Who are these people? They were -Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the middle ages. -Initially of Berber and Arab decent -Name later applied to Africans Iberian Christian Converts to Islam and people of mixed ancestry
The Moors
500
Who siezed (name of the general) Belgrade in 1521? -He killed King Louis II of Hungary -He invaded Vienna for 2 months
Suleiman "The Magnificent"
500
What was the real name of the Egyptian singer know as The Sultana of the Song?
Munira El Mahdeya born as Zakiyya Hassan
500
How do you say alcohol in Arabic?
al-kuhul
500
Abul Izz bin Ismail bin Al-Razzaz Al-Jazari invented what in the 6th Hijri century?
The first mobile robot to carry out domestic services.