Flashcard Section 8.3

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Which of the following was NOT a location where Muslim traders spread products, ideas, and/or knowledge during the Middle Ages? Spain, North Africa, Persia, America

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America

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Which of the following was NOT a banking practice pioneered by Muslims? branch banking, the use of bank checks, banks formed to exchange currency, the use of paper money

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the use of paper money

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Which of the following is true of the demand for manufactured goods in Muslim society? the demand for manufactured goods was low because Muhammad taught they were evil., the demand was low because not many were actually produced., the demand was high but most came from the Mecca area., the demand was high and products were produced from many areas of the civilization.

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the demand was high and products were produced from many areas of the civilization.

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The Abbasids proclaimed one kind of money as the standard currency of the empire, called the:

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dinar

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Most slaves in Muslim society worked as:

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household servants

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The Rubaiyat, a beautiful long poem written as a collection of four-line stanzas, was a work by:

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Omar Khayyam

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Since early Muslim artists avoided picturing God or Muhammad, Islamic religious art focused on:

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calligraphy

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The greatest Muslim center of learning was located in: Mecca, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Baghdad

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Baghdad

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Muslim mathematician al-Khwarizmi pioneered the study of: geometry, algebra, calculus, trigonometry

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algebra

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Which of the following was NOT an advancement in the area of medicine that was developed by Muslim civilization?
Options: hospitals, sweeteners for medicine, heart surgery, procedures for treating cataracts

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heart surgery