Islam 2020

Islam was founded in the Arabian Peninsula where the landscape is mainly what?

• Arid Deserts
• Lush Savanahs
• Humid Swampland
• fertile plains

What Aspects of Arab life troubled Muhammad?

• neglect of the poor

• abuse of the environment

• disregard for family

• dishonesty & greed

The Qur'an forbids (select all that apply)

• murder, lying & stealing
• showing disrespect to one's parents
• interaction with Christians or Jews
• treating neighbors unkindly

How did Islam spread through the medieval world? (Select all that apply)

• along trade routes
• through military conquest
• adoption by European kings
• from copies of the Qur'an written in English

The two main factions/sects of Islam are

• Sunni
• Shia
• Shiaria
• Shakira

One of the most important Islamic center of learning and culture on the arabian peninsula

• Timbuktu
• Baghdad
• Dakar
• Istanbul

The rulers that came after the Umayyads were the

• Abbasids
• Arabians
• Iraquis
• Assyrians

a group of travelling merchants and animals

• Oasis
• Bedouin
• caravan
• Cistern

desert herders & nomads who traveled from settlement to settlement on the Arabian Peninsula

• Oasis

• Bedouin

• caravan

• Cistern

a green area in a desert fed by underground water.

• Oasis
• Bedouin
• caravan
• Cistern