Islamic Empires(Caliphates)

What are people who believe and follow the religion of Islam called?   

• Islams 
• Muslims 
• Arabs 
• Middle Easterners

What is the Quran?

• The most holy city of Islam
•  The leader of the Muslim world
• The pilgrimage Muslims make to Mecca
• The holy book of Islam

What are the five basic acts that form the framework of the religion of Islam? 

• Five Holy Books
• The Five Caliphs
• Five Pillars of Islam
• Five Commandments

What is a Hadith?     

• A place where Muslims worship
• A text describing the actions and sayings of Muhammad
•  A Muslim holy city 
• An Islamic religious leader

Which of the following issues best summarizes the original conflict that caused the split between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims?

• Whether caliphs should only be direct descendants of Muhammad

• Debate over where the capital should be

• An argument over which God to worship

• A fight over control of the Holy Land

Defeated Ummayad Dynasty

• Ayyubid
• Fatimad
• Osama Bin Laden
• Abassids

Where was the Abbasid capital

• Damascus
• Baghdad
• Persia
• Istanbul

How did trade impact the spread of Islam? 

• Traders spread Muslim ideas as they traveled. 
• Trade had no impact. 
• Trade slowed the spread of Islam because Muslim traders were also warriors. 
• Merchants developed a new denomination of Islam. 

Islamic followers are called

• Hindus

• Muslims

• Jews

• Christians

Which of the following was NOT one of the major accomplishments of Islamic scholars?

• literature

• mathematics

• science

• The invention of gunpowder