Year 7 - Unit 3 - Medieval Islam

The trade routes linking China with Europe were known as...

• Silk Routes

• Silk Roads

• Trade routes

• Cloth Roads

How far apart were caravanserai built?

• 10km apart

• 20km apart

• 30km apart

• 40km apart

Select all of the correct items that were traded with the West.

• courgettes

• bread

• sugar

• spices

• meat

Which of these coins was the silver coin in medieval Islamic currency?

• dirham

• dinar

Which of these coins was the gold coin in medieval Islamic currency?

• dirham

• dinar

Which city was the cultural centre of the Islamic empire?

• Kabul

• Baghdad

• Morocco

• Cordoba

Which of these statements are correct about the House of Wisdom? Choose more than one correct answer.

• library of learning and ideas in arts, languages and science.

• It was based in Baghdad.

• It was a trading route that connected China and the West.

• Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars, translators, scientists, scribes and authors met there.

• It helped establish the dinar and dirham currency used across the Empire.

Which Islamic scholar made discoveries about smallpox?

• Al Razi

• Caliph

• Avicenna

• Al-Khwarizmi

Which of these areas was studied and developed by Al-Khwarizmi?

• Medicine and surgery

• Greek texts

• Algebra

• Development of maps

Which development helped increase the spread of knowledge and ideas within books across the Empire?

• Paper mills

• Development of the dinar and dirham

• Algebraic knowledge

• Caravanserai