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L11 Islamic Achievements and Innovations

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What Islamic invention that made it possible to navigatie latitude (not find North) at sea?

a)
Astrolabe
b)
Compass
c)
Lateen Sail
d)
Calligraphy
2.

During the Middle Ages, many Greek and Roman classics were preserved because they had been translated into what language?

a)

Russian

b)

Aztec

c)

Arabic

d)

Chinese

3.

Which achievements are most closely associated with the Golden Age of Islamic culture?

a)

mosques, medical books, and algebra

b)

gunpowder, pagodas, and silk

c)

aqueducts, roads, and polytheistic temples

d)

columns, theory of sun-centered universe, and democracy

4.

Where is the famous Islamic mosque named Dome of the Rock located?

a)
Mecca
b)
Jerusalem
c)
Baghdad
d)
Damascus
5.

What achievements in medicine are attributed to the Islamic empire in the middle ages?

a)

a cure for the Black Plague

b)

opium used to put patients to sleep for surgery

c)

cured blindness

d)

heart transplants

6.

Muslims established many of the first...

a)

democracies

b)

building techniques

c)

hospitals & medical schools

d)

court systems

7.

Muslim doctors determined illness was caused by...

a)

one's personality

b)

bacteria

c)

a curse by spirits or God

d)

one's "wrong-doings"

8.

The Muslim world adapted the compass from the Chinese they used it to

a)

for surgery

b)

locate Mecca for their daily prayers

c)

find latitutde at sea

d)

measure the circumference of the earth

9.

One of the achievements of the medieval Muslim empires in astronomy was

a)

measuring the circumference of the earth

b)

creating a compass

c)

the study and classification of animals

d)

creating the first medical book

10.

Muslims established zoology, which is...

a)

the classification and study of chemicals / chemical substances

b)

instrument with magnetic pointer that shows directions

c)

the study of animals

d)

instrument used to determine latitude by measuring position of the stars

11.

Which branch of math was developed by Muslim mathematicians?

a)

Geometry

b)

Algebra

c)

Astronomy

d)

Addition

12.

Which subjects would you likely find in the most texts on in the House of Wisdom?

a)

Philosophy, history, math, astronomy, and medicine

b)

Biology, chemistry, physics, and geology

c)

Political science, economics, sociology, and psychology

d)

Literature, art, music, and physical education

13.

What is calligraphy?

a)

the first language of the Arabian pennisula

b)

a beautiful, spiritual and artistic form of writing letters

c)

a mural made out of small piece of tile

d)

paintings done on fresh plaster that retain their color

14.
What is the language helped to spread Islam?
a)
English
b)
Greek
c)
Arabic
d)
Latin