Topic 8 Review Questions

Why was trade important to the Muslim empires?

• It ensured the caliphates had monopolies in agricultural and textile products.
• It was an established network within the Muslim empires that made the empires self-sufficient and eliminated any need to trade with distant lands.
• It spread Arabic throughout Europe and Africa, making it the required language of trade and business.
• It helped create unity and a money economy, and facilitated the spread of ideas and culture.

How did the diffusion of Muslim ideas in medicine affect Europeans?

• European doctors began creating large urban hospitals, but rejected Muslim medical scholarship.
• They began following Muslim recommendations to concentrate on treating the mind over the body.
• They used the Muslim practice of vaccinating for measles and smallpox to reduce deaths in medieval Europe.
• It introduced them to a wide body of medical knowledge and the idea of training physicians and creating hospitals.

Some of the characteristics of Muslim art include

• the depiction of Muhammad and Mecca to illustrate religious buildings and the Quran.
• the blending of classical and Gothic styles of architecture in mosques.
• the use of oil paintings and mosaics to show Muslims in their daily life.
• the use of calligraphy, geometric shapes, and an arabesque style.

The Muslim empires were significant contributors in which of the following educational fields?

• algebra and medicine
• hydrology and engineering
• literature and psychology
• physiology and agriculture

Muslims believe that both boys and girls should be educated so they could

• study the Quran.
• build a mosque.
• share blessed ideas of faith.
• travel to Mecca.

What is the name of the practice of using beautiful handwriting for decoration on buildings and in books?

• Rubaiyat
• Firdawsi
• calligraphy
• stamping

The Muslim society allowed some degree of _____ which ment that individuals could move up in social class through religious, scholarly, and military acheivements.

• attainable profiteering
• monopolistic competition
• personal fulfillment
• social mobility

The Abbasids made changes to the Arab Muslim empire to

• enlarge the empire to include much of western Europe.
• create an empire based on equality for Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
• give more authority to wealthy Muslims and create distinct social classes.
• appeal to all classes of Muslims, people of different religions, and conquered Persians.

Why did the Abbasid caliphate decline?

• The Mongols put a figurehead on the throne; then the Turks invaded.
• The Turks conquered Baghdad; then the Mongols invaded
• Timur the Lame swept into Spain and defeated the Abbasids.
• The Seljuk Turks invaded Spain from North Africa.

The powerful Umayyad caliphate helped to spread Islam from

• England to Australia.
• Spain to the Indus River Valley.
• Baghdad to Mecca.
• Black Sea to the Persian Gulf.