Fall Break Test Chapter 9

Question 1

What did Sasanid farmers pioneer?

Answer 1

Cultivation of Silk Road crops

Question 2

What was Sasanid’s main state religion?

Answer 2

Zoroastrianism

Question 3

What did the Silk Road encourage?

Answer 3

Movement of people in Iran and Central Asia

exchange of religious ideas/military technology

Question 4

What religion emerged from nomadic pastoralists and caravan traders?

Answer 4

Islam

Question 5

What city grew as a caravan city and pilgrimage site?

Answer 5

Mecca

Question 6

What kind of stories did Mecca identify with?

Answer 6

Christian and Jewish

Question 7

What did Muhammad experience and do?

Answer 7

Revelations

Called people to submit to God’s will

Question 8

What happened to Muhammad after he faced hostility?

Answer 8

Fled to Mecca with followers to medina

Question 9

What did Muhammad and his followers form?

Answer 9

Group called umma

Question 10

What did Abu Bakr confirm?

Answer 10

5 pillars of Islam

Ordered composition of the Quran

Question 11

What resulted from civil war within umma?

Answer 11

Sunni and Shi’ite groups

Foundation of Ummayad Caliphate

Question 12

What did Umayyad caliphate rule over?

Answer 12

Ethnic empire

Question 13

Where did Umayyad govern from?

Answer 13

Damascus

Question 14

What kind of administrative methods did the Umayyad use?

Answer 14

Sasanid and Byzantine

Question 15

Who did Umayyad fall too and what happened after?

Answer 15

Rebels

The rebels established Abbasid caliph at Baghdad

Question 16

What culture influence the Abassid caliphate?

Answer 16

Persian

Question 17

Why did the Abassid decline?

Answer 17

Fragmentation of the caliphate into independent states

Umma remained

Question 18

What was the foundation Islamic civilization?

Answer 18

Sharia

Derived from Quran and Hadith

Question 19

What was the social status women had under Islamic law?

Answer 19

High status

Question 20

Who lived in seclusion under Islamic law?

Answer 20

Urban women

Question 21

What happened to southern Arabia by the 600s?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What happened to Arab pastoralists as the caravan trade across Arabia developed?

Answer 22

It became the primary providers of animal power throughout the region

Question 23

Why did Muhammad become a caravan trader?

Answer 23

Through his marriage to Khadija

Question 24

What Islam mean in Arabic?

Answer 24

One who makes submission to the will of God

Question 25

What community did Muhammad and his followers make?

Answer 25

Umma

Question 26

What was the schism in Islam caused by?

Answer 26

Muhammad didn’t clarify a successor

Question 27

Who were the Muslims that were called the people of tradition and community?

Answer 27

Sunnis

Question 28

Who did the Muslim take Syria and Egypt between 636 and 639?

Answer 28

The Byzantine empire

Question 29

By the early 700s where did the Islamic empire stretch from?

Answer 29

Spain to India

Question 30

What happened to the region conquered by the Muslims between 636 and early 700s?

Answer 30

Majority if people’s lives remained unchanged

Question 31

What did the Umayyad caliphs rule over?

Answer 31

Ethnically defined Arab realm rather than an Islamic empire

Question 32

What did the Abassid caliphs rule over?

Answer 32

An increasingly Muslim empire

Question 33

What was a major problem the Abbasid caliph faced?

Answer 33

They had frontier revolts that were too slow to reach

Question 34

By the late 8th century how far did Muslims expand their trade empire?

Answer 34

Ghana

Question 35

What happened in the early rule of the Turks?

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Where did the Sasanids originate from and what did they do?

Answer 36

Southern Italy
Overthrew Parthians
Continued their predecessors rivalry with Rome