Ch. 13 Section 2 & 3 Review

The​ ​ (a)   ​ family came to power immediately after the first four​ ​ ?​ (b)  

• Umayyad
• Caliph
• Safavid
• shah

The Umayyad caliph Abd al-Rahman fled to ​ (a)   in 755?

• Spain
• Gaul
• Rome
• India

Which of the following was considered a great achievement of Abd al-Rahman III?

• He forced all non-Muslims to leave al-Andalus.

• He conquered the Byzantine and Persian empires.

• He mad Cordoba a great center of learning.

• He founded the Ottoman Empire.

Why was Suleyman I known as Suleyman the Magnigicent?

• He captured Constantinople.

• He led many military conquests and inspired a great cultural era.

• He established the Safavid Empire.

• He worked to force the people under him to convert to Islam.

How were the Safavids able to create a strong economy?

• They hired mercenaries.

• They controlled the Mediterranean.

• They were the center of international trade routes.

• They conquered the Umayyads.

The Taj Mahal was built by​ (a)  

• Shah Jahan
• Akbar the Great
• Shah Ismail
• Abd al-Rahman

How did the actions of the Umayyads cause Islam to split into two branches?

• They set up a system so that only non-Muslims could be caliphs.

• They set up an intense system of schooling and test taking to make sure that one was ready to rule..

• All successors would have to pay a high price to become caliph.

• They set up a heredity system of succession for caliphs and move the capital to Damascus.

Muslims built on the ideas of what Greek mathematician?

• Ibn Rush

• Plato

• Euclid

• Aristotle

What major achievement in mathematics did the Muslims make?

• They were the first people to use astronomy.

• They built on the knowledge of earlier French and Spanish scholars.

• They encouraged the adoption of the decimal number system.

• They created the field of arithmetic.

Why do mosques not contain images of humans?

• Muslims see geometric designs as more attractive than images of humans.

• Drawing humans is seen as trying to imitate God's act of creation.

• Humans are considered too difficult to draw.

• Mosques must only contain writings from the Qur'an.