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Islam beyond the Caliphates

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was unique about Islam in West Africa?

a)

Did not allow Hinduism and destroyed temples

b)

Local rulers did not enforce Islamic (state) rules

c)

Trade and religion were separate

d)

West Africa rejected the Islamic ummah

2.

What two technologies that spread from China, through Asia, and to Europe.

a)

gunpowder and guillotine

b)

educational and religion

c)

Printing and snowblowers

d)

Printing and gunpowder

3.

What is Dar-al-Islam ?

a)

Conquered people who adopt both Arab and Muslim culture

b)

A term used to describe all states controlled by an Islamic government

c)

A term used to describe the Mongol conquests of Islamic lands

d)

People in West Africa who went on the caravan with Mansa Musa

4.

diagnoses, hospitals and traveling clinics were

a)

Islamic attempts to control the lower classes

b)

new ideas passed along the Silk Road from China

c)

ways Persian scholars advanced medicine

d)

ways Islamic scholars advanced medicine

5.

What was the name of the West African ruler who made the Hajj to Mecca?

a)

Mansa Musa

b)

Ibn Battuta

c)

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

d)

'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah

6.

Name the two Muslim West African empires that benefited from Islamic trade

a)

Ghana and Mali

b)

Ghana and Egypt

c)

Malaysia and Indonesia

d)

Central China and Persia

7.

Who was Nasir al-Din al-Tusi ?

a)

A Persian doctor who worked on traveling clinics with the caravans

b)

A Muslim Persian who built the House of Wisdom in Baghdad

c)

a Muslim Persian mathematician who invented trigonometry

d)

a Muslim explorer who spent 30 years exploring Dar-al-Islam

8.

Turko-Persian Sunni invaders who displaced much of the Abbasid and Byzantine territory in the Middle East (Persia) and Anatolia in the 11th century CE.

a)

The Four Caliphs

b)

Mughals

c)

Delhi Sultanate

d)

Seljuks

9.

The first Muslim empire in India from 1206-1526 that dealt with constant Hindu-Muslim conflicts

a)

Sikhism

b)

Abbasid Caliphate

c)

Delhi Sultanate

d)

Seljuk Empire

10.

A monotheistic religion that emerged in modern-day Pakistan and India in the period circa 1200 CE - 1450 CE that blended elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam.

a)

Sikhism

b)

Confucianism

c)

Islam

d)

Judaism

11.

What was the "House of Wisdom"?

a)

A holding place for knowledge in Baghdad for the Delhi Sultanate until its destruction by the Hindus in 1258 CE.

b)

A holding place for knowledge in Baghdad for the West Africans until its destruction by the Mongols in 1258 CE.

c)

A holding place for knowledge in Timbuktu for the West Africans until its destruction by the Mongols in 1258 CE.

d)

A holding place for knowledge in Baghdad for the Abbasids until its destruction by the Mongols in 1258 CE.