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WorksheetsChapter 3 Section 2 Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 50mins
What family came to power immediately after the first four caliphs?
Seljuk Turks
Abbasids
Mongols
Umayyads
Where did the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Rahman flee in 755?
Spain
Anatolia
Algiers
Balkans
Which of the following was considered a great achievement of Abd al-Rahman III?
He forced all non-Muslims to leave al-Andalus.
He conquered the Byzantine and Persian empires.
He made Cordoba a great center of learning.
He founded the Ottoman Empire.
Why was Suleyman I known as Suleyman the Magnificent?
He captured Constantinople.
He led many military conquests and inspired a great cultural era.
He established the Safavid Empire.
He worked to force the people under him to convert to Islam.
How were the Safavids able to create a strong economy?
They hired mercenaries.
They controlled the Mediterranean.
They were at the center of international trade routes.
They conquered the Umayyads.
Who built the Taj Mahal?
Shah Jahan
Akbar the Great
Shah Ismail
Abd al Rahman
How did the actions of the Umayyads cause Islam to split into two branches?
They set up a heredity system of succession for caliphs, and moved the capital to Damascus.
They moved the capital to Lisbon.
They moved the capital to Mecca.
They let anyone who wanted to be a caliph try out for the job.
During their greatest years, how were the cities of Istanbul and Esfahan similar?
Both were centers of war.
Both were cities where new leaders lived.
Both were cultural and artistic centers with many beautiful buildings.
Both had people who did not practice Islam.
In Cordoba, Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived together under a government that practiced
religious hate toward others.
the death penalty for those who practiced a religion other than Islam.
the art of meditation.
religious tolerance, sympathy for the beliefs of others.
Janissaries are....
highly trained and disciplined soldiers in the Ottoman army who were also slaves.
Muslim religious leaders.
the supreme ruler of an empire.
people who lived outside the Muslim Empires.
