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Expansion
Golden Age in the East
Muslim Spain
Miscellaneous
Culture in Europe
100
These are the regions of the world where the Umayyad empire expanded to by the 700s.
What are Asia, Africa, and Europe?
100
This was the reason the Abbasids were bad leaders.
What is because they did not follow their religious responsibilities?
100
Scholars came to this city because it was a cultural center with many libraries.
What is Cordoba?
100
This contribution of Muslim scholars is something we use today.
What is the Arabic number system?
100
Scholars of these backgrounds lived in Cordoba along with the Muslims.
What are Christians and Jews?
200
The biggest importance of introducing this was that people in the empire could communicate with one another.
What is making Arabic the official language?
200
This book was developed by a Muslim doctor and was a contribution to society.
What is Cannon of Medicine?
200
The caliphs in Cordoba wanted to outshine and look better than the caliphs in this Muslim city.
What is Baghdad?
200
This is a fighting force that is maintained even in peace times.
What is a standing army?
200
Muslim scholars made advancements in these areas which were eventually translated into Latin.
What are mathematics, medicine, and geography?
300
This is what people from all over the world shared on their pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is language and culture?
300
This group of people believed they had the right to be caliphs because they were descendants of Muhammad.
What are the Fatimids?
300
These advancements made Cordoba different from many of the other cities in Europe at this time.
What is its size and its paved streets?
300
How many emirs ruled before Abd al-Rahman III ruled in the mid-900s?
What is 7?
300
Philosophical ideas from these two Greeks were also translated from Arabic into Latin.
Who are Aristotle and Plato?
400
This group took over control of the empire from the Umayyads.
What are the Abbasids?
400
This Abbasid policy allowed the most talented people participate in government no matter their religion.
What is the policy of inclusion?
400
This person took control of Muslim Spain through treaties with Muslim groups then attacking and beating ruling factions.
Who is Abd al-Rahman?
400
The Abbasid dynasty ended in 1258 when this group of people destroyed Baghdad.
Who are the Mongolians?
400
This was what the Muslims called a library.
What is a "House of Wisdom"?
500
This is where the Muslim advance in the West stopped.
What is at the Battle of Tours?
500
This is the reason the Abbasids established their capital in Baghdad.
What is because it was near major trade routes and closer to their powerful people?
500
This is the reason that the golden age in al-Andalus ended.
What is because Muslim factions fought for control as al-Andalus started falling apart?
500
This is one reason how the Abbasids unified their empire.
What is using a standing army; using the policy of inclusion; moving their capital to Baghdad to support trade, wealth, and arts.
500
Omar Khayyam was the master of this form of poetry?
What is the quatrain form?