Chapter 9 Practice Quiz

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Membership in the Islamic community known as the umma was based on a common

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Faith

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What is true of pre-Islamic Arabia

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Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrianism lived among the established Arab population

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What initiated the division within Islam between the Sunnis and Shias

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Disagreement over who should assume leadership in the Islamic world

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What was contributed to the rapid expansion of the Islamic/Arab Empire in the century following the death of Muhammad

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The weakened conditions of the byzantine and persian empires

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What was the most throughly Islamized region in the period from 600 to 1500

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Anatolia

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What religious traditions blended elements of Hindusim and Islam

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Sikhism

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What statements expresses a view of women found in the Quran

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Women were spiritually equal to men

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In contrast to the Umayyad dynasty, the caliphs of the Abbasid dynasty

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Allowed non-Arabs to play a prominent role in society

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What is a distinctive feature of sufism

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Renunciation of the material world in the pursuit of spiritual union with Allah

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What was a force thst helped bind the Islamic world together

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The system of Islamic education created by the ulama

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What was a feature of Islam that attracted converts in India

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The muslim notion of equality of all believers

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Sufi practitioners facilitied the coversion to Islam of people living in Anatolia and India

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Emphasizing personal experiences of the divine, rather than the law

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In what region was conversion to Islam motivated by a desire to expand trading networks rather than the results of conquest and Islamic rule

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West africa

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What refers to the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims should try to make at least once in their lifetime

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Hajj

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What was result of the cross-regional ties created in the expanding Iskamic world

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The exchange of agricultural products and practice from one regon to another

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The Arab Empire that accompanied the soread of Islam stretched from

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Spain to India

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Why was the city of Mecca important

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It was the site of the Kaaba where pilgrims congregated

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What is the requirement for all muslim

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Almsgiving

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What event marked the beggining of the new Islamic calendar

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Muhammad's emigration to Yarhrib/Medina

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What contributed to the mass conversion of people living in the middle East to Islam by the eighth century

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Conversion to Islam offered many financial and social benefits

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What describes the effect of Islam on West Africa

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Islam had the greatest influence on rulers and urban elites

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What resulted from Muslim rule in Spain

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The secular aspects of Islamic learning influenced the shaping of New European civilization

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What is an example of a role assumed by the ulama

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Judges

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What was a goal of the education offered at the madrassas

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To preserve an established body of Islamic learning

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What refers to the saying and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad

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The hadiths

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What was an Arab innovation

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Algebra

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Islam had roots in which set of religious or philosophical traditions

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Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism

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In contrast to the spread of Buddhism and Christianity, the early spread of Islam

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Gave rise to a large empire

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What of the aspects of Arab life was reinforced in the Quran

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Solidarity

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Map 9.3 in the text book shows that different part of the Islamic world were connected through

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Trade

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According to the Quran, under what circumstances is the use of war and violence justified

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To defend oneself against another's aggression

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What behaviors does the hadiths encourage

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Charity for the less fortunate

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What reflects a view of marriage expressed in the sharia

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Marriage is based on the consent of both parties

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As expressed by the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi, where can Gid be found

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In one's heart

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What reflects sensibility expressed in the poetry of the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi

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"By speech and by silence and by fragrance, catch the scent of the king everywhere"

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In the fourteenth-century Persian painting of Muhammad's encounter with Gabriel, what does the posture of the two figures suggest is happening

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Gabriel is commanding Muhammad to recite

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What details in the sixteenth-century Persian painting of Muhammad's night journey indicate that Muhammad is traveling through the heavens

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The depiction of angels

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The sixteenth-century Turkish painting of the Battle of Badr suggest that Muhammad's victory was due to

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Divine intervention

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In the elenventh-century Persian painting of Muhammad's and his followers at the Kaaba, what do the images inside the small boxes lining the top and left side of the painting represent

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The idols that had been stored inside the Kaaba

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What explains why Muhammad's face is obscured in the painting, the Battle at Badr and the destruction of the idols

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To avoid idolatry

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From the founding of each religion, Christians and Muslim shared a belief in

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A single omnipotent deity

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The second passage does not support the first passage because the second passage

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Present an incident in which a military order supported a Muslim traveler

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What characterized the trans-Saharan

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Muslim merchants dominated the trade

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What was an immediate effect of the intial Muslim conquest of the seventh century C.E

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The weakening of the Byzantine Empire and the collapse of other empires

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The photograph shows a fourteenth century C.E mosque in the city of Xi'an central China. This image most clearly supports which of the following conclusions about the spread of Islam

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Early Muslim communities in China adopted local architectural styles for their religious buildings

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Where is Jerusalem

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A

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Where is Mecca

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D

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Where is Medina

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C

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A key similarity between western Europe and West African leaders in the period 1000-1490 was their

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Adoption of scholarship from Muslim civilization

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The growth of Islam in West Africa before 1450 was largely the result of

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Influence of Muslim traders from the north involved in the trans- Saharan trade

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What factors best explains the distribution of Muslim population shown on the map above

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Merchant activity

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Where is Russia

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A

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Where is ukraine

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D

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Where is Georgia

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E

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Where is turkey

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K

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Where is Armenia

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S

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Azerbaijan

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T

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Where is Lebanon

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R

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Syria

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U

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Where is Iraq

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L

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Where is Israel

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I

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Where is Jordan

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J