Fall 2023 First Caliphs and Early Islamic Empires

Place these early Islamic ruling dynasties in their correct chronological order.

(1 - being the earliest and 4 - being the latest.)

• Al Andalus

• Umayyad Empire

• Abbasid Empire

• Rightly Guided Caliphs

What is being described below?

• - Surviving eastern half of the old Roman Empire

• - Ruled from Constantinople

• - Major adversary for the early Islamic Empires

• Byzantine Empire

• Frankish Kingdom

• Mali Empire

• Tokugawa Shogunate

• Peloponnesian League

Much of warfare throughout human history, including during the Islamic Caliphate, involved encircling a city to cut it off from outside supplies in the hopes that it would surrender. This tactic is known as a...

• Seige

• Trench Warfare

• Blitzkrieg

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Phalanx

City that was the capital of the Byzantine Empire, considered the center of Eastern Christianity. It's great walls provided defense against attack. The Muslims tried for centuries to conquer it but failed every time until finally succeeding in the year 1453.

• Constantinople

• Rome

• Carthage

• Timbuktu

• Domascus

Which of the following is true regarding how the early Muslim Empires treated the non-Muslim peoples they conquered?

• They forced them to convert to Islam or die.

• They allowed them to practice their religion as long as the paid a special tax

• They moved them to a special part of the empire called a reservation.

• It wasn't an issue because everyone in that part of the world was already Muslim

• They gave them speical jobs in government to advise the new Muslim rulers

Which Islamic Dynasty replaced the Umayyad Empire?

• Abbasid

• Al Andalus

• Ottoman

• Mogul

• Rightly Guided Caliphs

Match the early Islamic Empire to the city/region it ruled from...

• Mecca

• Umayyad

• Baghdad

• Rightly Guided Caliphs

• Iberia

• Al Andalus

• Damascus

• Abbasid

Which Islamic Civilization is considered to have been the Golden Age of Islamic Civilizations?

• Abbasid

• Al Andalus

• Umayyad

• Ottoman

• Mali

Which civilization replaced the Abbasid Empire?

• Abbasid

• Al Andalus

• Umayyad

• Ottoman

• Mongols

The Al Andalus civilization could be considered a continuation of which earlier Islamic Civilization?

• Abbasid

• Moroccan

• Umayyad

• Ottoman

• Mongols