Ch. 3-3 Life in the Islamic World pages 115-120

A Muslim house of worship is called a(n) ________________

• church

• temple

• mosque

• shrine

Muslim cities had marketplaces called ____________________ that were filled with shops and stalls where goods were sold.

• plazas

• bazaars

• priminade

• vistas

A(n) ___________ is a tower from which believers are called to prayer.

• peer

• plaza

• minaret

• caravan

Muslim astronomers improved a tool called the ___________, which sailors used to determine their position at sea.

• compass

• gyroscope

• sextant

• astrolabe

The people at the lowest level of Muslim society who had no power at all in government were the __________________

• enslaved people.

• peasants

• surfs

• Sunnis

Muslim rulers advanced Muslim civilization by spreading the Arabic language and providing merchants with

• banks.

• business records.

• coins.

• education.

In Muslim society, social groups were based on

• education.

• family connections.

• power and wealth.

• religious beliefs.

Who was the Persian doctor who showed how diseases were spread from person to person?

• al-Razi

• Ibn Khaldun

• Ibn Sina

• al-Khawarizmi

Among his many talents, Omar Khayyam is best known as the poet who wrote

• The Arabian Nights.

• The House of Wisdom

• Muqaddimah

• the Rubaiyat

What Muslim tomb did the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan build for his wife in Agra, India?

• Alhambra

• House of Wisdom

• Mosque

• Taj Mahal