Moors

Question 1

what was unique about the ethnic makeup of Al-Andalus

Answer 1

Jews, Christians and muslims lived together for some 800 years in relative peace an prosperity under muslim rule.

Question 2

When was the muslim conquest of the iberian peninsula

Answer 2

711 ad

Question 3

Who were the Moors

Answer 3

Afro-asiatic muslims

Question 4

What pre-existing factors resulted in support for the Muslim invasion of the Ibereian peninsula.

Answer 4

the Catholic European peasanty and Sephardic Jews suffered under Catholic corruption.

Question 5

What was the word for the ruling classes. What was the word for the unjust privileges they enjoyed such as the right to pay fines for crimes against the lower classes

Answer 5

1. The latifudia

2. The ius maletractandi

Question 6

Until when did the Moors control portions of the Iberian peninsula.

Answer 6

1492

Question 7

What was the Moorish/Muslim word for Jesus

Answer 7

Is’a

Question 8

Who was Abdul Rahman 3? What was notable about him and what years did he rule.

Answer 8

He spent nearly one third of the Kingdom’s wealth on the public education system 912-961

Question 9

What was remarkable about Andalucia under the Moors

Answer 9

Its inter-cultural and inter-racial nature led to advances in the sciences as well as in the educational system in general

Question 10

How many universities and libraries were in Andalucia under the Moors by the twelfth century

Answer 10

17 universities

70 public libraries

Question 11

What was Andalucia’s literacy rate like under the Moors?

Answer 11

the highest in Western Europe

Question 12

What is one medical practice invented by the Muslims that improved sterilization? In what year was it invented?

Answer 12

The use of topical alcohol for sterilization. The 11th century.

Question 13

What is the the original Muslim name for the Rock of Gibraltar. Who was it named for?

Answer 13

Jebel Tarik, named for one of the leaders of th Moorish invasion

Question 14

What are some lines in Othello that refer to the race of the Moors.

Answer 14

“Even now, now, very now, an old Black ram is tupping your White ewe (Act 1, scene 1)
Rodrigo calls Othello “thick-lips” in the same scene”

Question 15

Who is Othello?

Answer 15

The Moorish commanding general of the Venetian Army

Question 16

What has the word Moor largely been used to describe?

Answer 16

So-called “Black” peoples in countless European histories, dictionaries and art-work of the pre Asientio (slave trade of 16-19th centuries)

Question 17

Who was St. Maurice

Answer 17

The Egyptian/African patron st. of Germany and the Holy

Roman Empire.

Question 18

Who was Leo Africanus

Answer 18

A famed Chronicler of the 15th and 16th centuries, originally named Hassan Ben Muhammed el Wazzan az-Zayyati. Born in Granada in 1488. Became known as Leo Africanus after converting to catholicism.

Question 19

What did Leo Afircanus say of the western region of Africa (sudan)

Answer 19

“This part of the worlde is inhabited especially by the Africans or Moores, propersly so called, which last are of two kinds, namely white or tawnie Moores, and Negroes or Black Moores.

Question 20

What translator added the pigmentocratic distinction between Negroes or tawnie Moors

Answer 20

John Pory

Question 21

When did the Moors take control of Timbuctoo. How did this relate to the asiento

Answer 21

following the conquest of Moroccan Sultan Al-Mansur in 1591. The Moors designated those who rebelled against the central authority of Morocco as al-bansiba and sold them into slavery

Question 22

Why was Moorish literature so popular

Answer 22

it contained superior medical and sicientific knowledge

Question 23

what was the literacy rate among the Moors?

Answer 23

80 percent

Question 24

What was the great mathematic innovation of the Muslim world

Answer 24

Hindi-Arabic numerals

Question 25

What sort of evidence is there of an awareness among European nobles of Moorish ancestry

Answer 25

The appearance of black characters in coats of arms with names like Morizzi, Morin, Morriere

Question 26

What specific ethnic group, which has a variety of skin hues, did Moorsmostly belong to

Answer 26

The Amazigh of Northwest Africa/Berbers

Question 27

What are some examples of paintings depicting Black Moors from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Answer 27

Portrait of an Arab by Horace Vernet
The Answer by Ludwig Deutsch
Moorish Scribe by Ludwig Deutsch
Moor in a headdress

Question 28

What was the parentage of Alexandro Medice?

Answer 28

He had a Moorish mother and an Italian father?

Question 29

Algebra

Answer 29

Al-jabr

Question 30

Nadir

Answer 30

nadir

Question 31

Guitar

Answer 31

Quitar

Question 32

Pancreas

Answer 32

Bankras

Question 33

who wrote books showing how to forge medical instruments. Where were they translated?

Answer 33

Al Zahrawi. The Spanish cirty of Toledo, which becomes a mjor center for the translation of Moorish scholarship.

Question 34

who spent more than a third of the nations wealth on public education

Answer 34

Abdul Rahman 3

Question 35

How did Moors serve as a “condiut”?

Answer 35

the presence of Moors from Europ Africa and Asia served as a conduit for eastern thought and scholarship to the western world.

Question 36

What was the word that meant “People of the Book”?

Answer 36

Al-Kitab

Question 37

What was the significance of pythagoras in relation to the Moors

Answer 37

The Moors were successful at reviving classical greek scholarship which had been reposited at Alexandria in Egypt. Ironically, Pythagoras himself studied in Egypt.

Question 38

What was the importance of “Seeking Knowledge” to Muslims

Answer 38

Muslims saw seeking knowledge as an essential prerogative for all people in order to understand God’s creation for themselves.

Question 39

Who was Abul Casis

Answer 39

Abul Casis was a Moorish physician who developed surgeries for the removal of cataracts. Certain of his techniques were used into the twentieth century.

Question 40

Wa there a forced conversion of subjects to Islam?

Answer 40

No, because all were seen as al-Kitab.

Question 41

What was the inquisition

Answer 41

A Catholic organization that persecuted and jailed non-catholics, Claimed about a quarter of a million victims over 250 years.

Question 42

University founded by a woman what when where

Answer 42

The University of Al-Karaouine founded in the early 9th century in Fez Morocco

Question 43

During what period did the Almoravids hold power in Al-Andalus? What were their views of the Moors?

Answer 43

The Almoravid invasion took place from 1090 to 1121. They saw the Moors as “soft” or “impure.” The Almoravids were country cousins who objected to the luxury and worldliness of the Moorish culture.

Question 44

Who was Alphonso the 10th? What did he do?

Answer 44

Alphonso the 10th was a Spanish ruler who set up a school of translation in Morocco to translate Moorish works into Latin.

Question 45

What was the name of the Catholic law that forbid people with Moorish or Jewish blood from holding high office?

Answer 45

“Impieza de Sangre”

Question 46

What was the Spanish word for Moors who had converted to Catholicism

Answer 46

“Moriscos”

Question 47

In what way were the Moors responsible for the founding of major European Universities

Answer 47

The Classical scholarship, as well as original Islamic scholarship that was translated in Toledo, spurred an intellectual renaissance in Europe and formed the basis on which major European Universities were founded

Question 48

what city in Al-Andalus was the largest city in Europe and an intellectual center?

Answer 48

Cordoba

Question 49

Who invented the removal of cataracts

Answer 49

Abul Casis

Question 50

of what region did Leo Africanus speak

Answer 50

western africa (sudan)