Islam Review

Which of the following explains the impact of Sharia Law on Muslin countries?

• Taxes collected go directly to support the elderly.

• Women are not allowed to get an education

• Men are expected to support their wife’s occupation.

• The government gets its laws from the Koran.

“The Black men come up from their country and take away the salt from [Taghaza]. In the town of Malli it sells for twenty to thirty dollars, and sometimes as much as forty. The locals use salt as a medium of exchange, just as gold and silver is used [elsewhere]; they cut it up into pieces and buy and sell with it.” -Ibn Battuta describing the salt trade (1352), in Hamdun & King 199 What is the main idea of the above excerpt?

• Salt was used the same as gold and silver

• Foreigners brought salt to trade

• Salt has many uses in Africa

• Salt is traded in exchange for gold and silver

Compare and contrast the images above. What conclusion can be made?

• The mosque in Saudi Arabia is newer and was more expensive.

• The social impacts of Islam spread across the world.

• The governments of Saudi Arabia and the Philippines are the same.

• The mosque is the central building in all Muslim cities.

One benefit Islam brought to Europe was the introduction of

• a set of rules everyone had to follow.

• mixed monotheistic religions.

• surgeons to perform operations.

• increased popularity of Chai tea.

While the Silk Road was famous for the goods it traded, ​ (a)   was also transmitted through the routes and became a major religion in China?

• Buddhism
• Chrisitianity
• Confucianism
• Judaism

"Your servant begs leave to say that Buddhism is no more than a cult of the barbarian peoples spread to China. It did not exist here in ancient times. Now the Buddha was a man of the barbarians who did not speak Chinese and who wore clothes of a different fashion. The Buddha’s sayings contain nothing about our ancient kings and the Buddha’s manner of dress did not conform to our laws; he understood neither the duties that bind sovereign and subject, nor the affections of father and son." Source: Han Yu, leading Confucian scholar and official at the Tang imperial court, “Memorial on Buddhism,” 819 C.E.

• Failure of past leaders to defend the Indian empire.

• The Silk Road allowed religious ideas to spread to China.

• Fear of continued invasions forcing religious conversion.

•  Sikhism forces other religions to find new converts.

Silk Gunpowder Paper Money Porcelain Magnetic Compass The above inventions came from​ (a)  

• China
• Russia
• England
• Japan

Based on the image, it can be inferred that slavery started because?

•  salt was no longer valuable

•  the gold mines became depleted

• slavery is legal under Islam

• desire to keep trade routes open

The Chinese dynasties are an example of a ​ (a)   style of government

• Monarchy
• Theocracy
• Republic
• Oligarchy

The above reading from the Quran demonstrates which of the Five Pillars of Islam?

• Pilgrimage

• Fasting

• Alms Giving

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  Prayer