Chapter 9 Review Questions Flashcards

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As the caravan trade across Arabia developed, Arab pastoralists

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Became primarily provider of an animal power throughout the region

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Muhammad became a caravan merchant

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Through his marriage to Khadijah

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In Arabic, Islam mean

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One who makes submission to the will of God

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In medina, Muhammad and his followers formed a community of believers in Islam and in Muhammad as the “messenger of God”. this community was called the

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Umma

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5
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The schism in Islam was caused by

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That Muhammad didn’t clarify his successor

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The Muslims who supported the first three caliphs came to be called “people of tradition and community” or

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Sunnis

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Which of the following is true of the southern Arabia by the 600s

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Most people in the region had some familiarity with Africa, India, and the Persian gulf region

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Between 636 and 639, the Muslims wretched both Syria and Egypt from

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Byzantine empire

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9
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By the early 700s, the Islamic empire stretched from

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Spain to India

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Which of the following is true of the regions conquered by the Muslims between 636 and early 700s

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The majority of the people lived their lives unchanged

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Which of the following is true of the Umayyad caliph

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They ruled over an ethnically defined Arab realm rather than an Islamic empire

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The Abbasid caliphs

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Ruled over an increasingly Muslim empire

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13
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One of the major problems of Abbasid caliphs faced was?

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Frontier revolts that were slow to reach

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By the late 8th century, it is known that the Muslims had expanded their trade empire to

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Ghana

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Which of the following is true of the early rule of the selijuk Turks

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Their rule was accompanied by an economic decline in Iran and Iraq

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Which of the following is true of the Quran?

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Abu bakr reportedly ordered that it to be written down