Chapter 9 (pt 1) The Muslim Caliphate Flashcards

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What is Caliphate?

A

An Islamic state that is officially Muslim, supposed to encompass every Muslim on earth 🌍

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2
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What is monotheism?

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The belief that there is only one god

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3
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What is a crusade?

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A series of medieval expeditions by the European to recover the “holy land” from the Muslims in the 11th-13th centuries

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4
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What is algebra the Arab translation

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The reunion of broken parts

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5
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What was the renaissance?

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A period following the Middle Ages of European artistic, literature, political and economical “rebirth”. A renewed interest in something

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What happened at the beginning of the middle ages?

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Western Europe fell into a period of chaos and restructuring

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7
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Who was born at the beginning of the Middle Ages?

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a man named Muhammad

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8
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Where was Muhammad born?

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Mecca

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9
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What is Mecca known as today?

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Saudi Arabia

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10
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Muhammad was born in _____ CE

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570 CE

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What happened in 610 CE

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Muhammad was meditating in a cave above Mecca when legend has it that he was visited by an angel and told to record what was spoken to him (the caves name was Hira)

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12
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What was done with the revelations written by Muhammad?

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They were put together to create a new religious text, the Quran

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13
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When did Muhammad die?

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632 CE

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14
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What did the religion of Islam do?

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United the warring Arab tribes

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15
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When was a new Islamic empire made?

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120 years later

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16
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Where was the new Islamic empire (caliphate)

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From Spain 2 west Persia

17
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Which 3 monotheistic religions have holy sites in Jerusalem?

A

Christianity
Judaism
Islam

18
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In 1096 the ___________________________

A

The Catholic pope declared a crusade to recapture Jerusalem and Palestine from the Islamic Caliphate

19
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How many armed crusades were there to the holy land between 1096-1273?

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9

20
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What did the Crusades represent?

A

The Catholic Church as well as brutality and greed

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21
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What happened during the first crusade?

A

Jerusalem was captured by Christian soldiers who massacred the Muslim and Jewish inhabitants

22
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What was the result of the first crusade?

A

The kingdom of Jerusalem was created in Palestine (1099-1291 CE)

23
Q

How long was the city of Jerusalem under christian control? What happened that the christians lost control?

A

The city was under christian control for 90 years. It then fell to a muslim army

24
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Who led the army that took control of the city of Jerusalem?

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Saladin (salah ad-din)

25
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True/False

Saladin did not spare the inhabitants, like the crusader before him.

A

False

He spared them

26
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1099-1187 CE?

A

Fall of Jerusalem to crusader army

27
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1187 CE?

A

Jerusalem retaken by muslim army

28
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1229-1244 CE?

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Jerusalem retaken by crusade

29
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1244 CE?

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Jerusalem retaken by muslim forces