Islamic Caliphates II

What allowed for a thriving community of Spanish Jews in al-Andalus?

• Religious tolerance

• higher pay for jobs

• House of Wisdom

• many workshops/ factories provided more jobs

What are the four Islamic Empires learned in class? -chronological order of establishment

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  Rightly Guided Caliphate, Umayyad Caliphate, Abbasid Caliphate, Umayyad al-Anadalus

• Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyad al- Andalus, Abbasid, Rightly Guided Caliphate

• Abbasid Caliphate, Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyad al- Andalus, Rightly Guided

• Rightly Guided Caliphate, Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyad al-Andalus, Abbasid Caliphate

The following allowed the Muslims to conquer more land EXCEPT

• Arab soldiers were experienced sailors who were great at navigating the seas

• Muslims were tolerant toward people of other religions such as Jews and Christians.

• Muslims believed they had a religious duty to spread Islam

• People living under Byzantine a Persian rulers were mistreated for practicing other faiths.

___________________________. One thing they had to do to live in Muslim territory and not serve in the military was __________________________.

• People of the Book, pay a poll tax

• People of the Book, convert to Islam

• Pagan, pay a poll tax

• Pagan, convert to Islam

When Ali died and the Umayyad caliphs ruled (661 - 750 C.E.) they moved the capital city to ________.

• Damascus, Syria

• Baghdad, Iraq

• Cairo, Egypt

• Istanbul, Turkey

The Abbassids (the dynasty after the Umayyads) are remembered as _____________.

• supporters of the arts, trade, and education

• great warriors

• engineers

• vegetarians

This was the ruling family after Ali's death; a Sunni dynasty of caliphs that ruled from 661 to 750

• Umayyad

• Abbasid

• Seljuk Turk

• Fatimid

Thriving trade leads to

• wealth and exchange of ideas

• wealth and minimalism

• exchange of ideas and loss of loyalty

• minimalism and loss of loyalty

Two groups who threatened Umayyad rule of al- Andalus

• other Muslim groups and Christians

• other Muslim groups and Jews

• Jews and Christians

• Mongols and Chinese

Factors that contributed to the economic success of al-Andalus

• workshops, trade and agriculture

• workshops, trade and fishing industry

• fishing industry, oil and agriculture

• agriculture, oil and tehcnology industry