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Mecca and Early Islamic History

Total questions: 127

Worksheet time: 1hrs 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Arabian Peninsula was dominated by ______ that tried ______? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

The Arabian Peninsula was dominated by independent Arab tribes that profited from lucrative trade routes.

b)

c

2.

Where was Muhammad born? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Mecca.

b)

c

3.

What is Mecca? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

A trading town that people from around the Arabian Peninsula came to worship idols inside the Kabba.

b)

c

4.

Why did people from around the Arabian Peninsula came to Mecca? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

To worship idols inside the Kabba

b)

c

5.

Muhammad began to had vision of what? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Vision from an angel sending him messages from God.

b)

c

6.

What do Muslims believe about the Quran?

a)

That it contains the literal words of God.

b)

c

7.

Muhammad began to share what and to who?

a)

Muhummas began to share his messages with the people of Mecca.

b)

c

8.

Muhummad led his followers to what city which is also called what?

a)

The City of Median  which is also called the Hijrah

b)

c

9.

The city of Median is also called what? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Hijrah

b)

c

10.

Most of the Arabia Peninsula was unified under the authority of? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

The Ummah

b)

c

11.

The Hadith are a collection of? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Traditions containing saying of the prophet Muhumad.

b)

c

12.

What are collection of traditions containing sayings of Muhummad.

a)

The Hadith

b)

c

13.

After Muhummad’s death leadership of the Muslims passed to a?

a)

Passed to a successor called a caliph.

b)

c

14.

The Rashidun Caliphate consisted of the what? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

The First 4 caliphs.

b)

c

15.

What consisted of the first four caliphs? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

The Rashidun Caliphate

b)

c

16.

The first three caliphates claimed what? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Claimed their right to rule by virtue of their adherence to the Quran?

b)

c

17.

When the first three caliphates claim their right, they became know as what? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Sunnis

b)

c

18.

Followers of Ali believed what? (Islam History & Religion)
That only direct descendants of Muhammad had the authority to rule, which they became known as

a)

Shia.

b)

c

19.

The followers of Ali became known as what? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Shia

b)

c

20.

Who was the last Rashidun Caliph? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Ali

b)

c

21.

Hussein was killed where? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

At the battle Karbala.

b)

c

22.

The Umayyad Caliphate succeeded what? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

The Rashidum

b)

c

23.

Who succeeded The Rashidum? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

The Umayyad Caliphate

b)

c

24.

The Umayyad Caliphate expanded rapidly to include much of what? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Much of northern African, Western India, and Spain.

b)

c

25.

______ expanded rapidly to include much of northern Africa, Western India, and Spain. (Islam History & Religion)

a)

The Umayyad Caliphate.

b)

c

26.

The Umayyad built the? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

The Dome of the Rock

b)

c

27.

Who built the Dome of the Rock? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

The Umayyad

b)

c

28.

Why is the Dome of the Rock important? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

The location of the Dome of the Rock is holy for Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

b)

c

29.

Muslims force established control over much of? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Spain

b)

c

30.

What was Cordoba? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

A world leading center of education

b)

c

31.

What is Cordoba known for? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Its known for its religious tolerance.

b)

c

32.

Early Scholarship from Greece and Rome was presented by? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Muslims Scholars.

b)

c

33.

Al-Kindi was known as? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

The father of Arab Philosophy

b)

c

34.

Who was known as the father of Arab Philosophy? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Al-Kindi

b)

c

35.

Who was known for their eight five commanders on Aristotle? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Averroes

b)

c

36.

Averroes was known for his? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

85 commanders on Aristotle

b)

c

37.

Al-khwarizmi was the father of? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Algebra

b)

c

38.

Al-Haytham was one of the worlds first? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

theoretical physician.

b)

c

39.

Iba sina is most famous for? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Writing the canon of Medicine

b)

c

40.

Who is most famous for writing the canon of Medicine? (Islam History & Religion)

a)

Iba Sina

b)

c

41.

The Carolingian kings gained their power though what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

An alliance with the Roman catholic church.

b)

c

42.

Carolingian Power reached its peak under? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

Charlemagne who built an empire.

b)

c

43.

Charlemagne built what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

A Empire

b)

c

44.

Carlemangne is considered the father of? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

German and French

b)

c

45.

Who is considered the father of German and French? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

Charlemagne

b)

c

46.

Who was crowned the "Emperor of the Romans” by the pope? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

Charlemagne

b)

c

47.

Charlemagne was crowned the what and by who? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

Emperor of the Romans by the pope

b)

c

48.

The holy Roman Emperor was considered the leader of? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

the monarchs in Europe

b)

c

49.

After the fall of Rome what started to decline and where? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

Political authority trade urbanization and literary decline in western europe.

b)

c

50.

What emerged under the Franks? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

Political unity and a cultural revival

b)

c

51.

Political unity and a cultural revival emerged under the____? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

Franks

b)

c

52.

What is the political system that linked landholding with military service? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

Feudalism

b)

c

53.

Small communities were formed around what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

Around local lord and the manor

b)

c

54.

What were formed around local lord and the manor? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

Small communities

b)

c

55.

What is the self sufficient economic system that developed on the feudal lord’s field? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)

a)

manorialism

b)

c

56.

The term manorialism is used to describe what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The self sufficient economic system that developed on the feudal lord’s field.

b)

c

57.

Manorialism means to self sufficient economic system that developed on what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The feudal lords field

b)

c

58.

Peasants were considered what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Free and could own their own businesses

b)

c

59.

Serfs? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Serfs owned nothing and were pledged to their local lord

b)

c

60.

Who are free and could own businesses and who were the ones who could own nothing and were pledged? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Peasants were free and could own businesses and Serfs had nothing and were pledged.

b)

c

61.

The Catholic Church became the most important what and where? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The most important unifying and stabilizing force in western europe during the middle ages.

b)

c

62.

What became the most important unifying and stabilizing force in western europe during the middle ages. (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The Catholic Church

b)

c

63.

Medieval Catholicism taught what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

That the clergy could intercept the scripture.

b)

c

64.

Few Europeans outside the clergy could read? Yes or No (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Yes few

b)

c

65.

What taught that the clergy could interpret the scripture? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Medieval Catholicism

b)

c

66.

The Clergy alone could do what?(Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Could administer rituals required to achieve heaven.

b)

c

67.

What could administer rituals required to achieve heaven? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The Clergy

b)

c

68.

The church enforced what? And to who? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Enforced a law on all believers.

b)

c

69.

The most powerful tool of the church was what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The threat and use of excommunication and interdiction

b)

c

70.

What were a series of wars where Christians tried to retake control of Jerusalem. (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The crusades

b)

c

71.

The crusades were what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

A series of wars where christians  tried to retake control of Jerusalem.

b)

c

72.

The Crusades began when? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The seljuk turks took control of the holy land

b)

c

73.

The pope taught that anyone that went on a crusade would be what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Forgiven of their sins

b)

c

74.

Those seeking economic advantage hoped what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

That the crusades would offer opportunities for treasure.

b)

c

75.

Who sought control of lucrative trade routes? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Italian Merchants

b)

c

76.

Italian Merchants sought what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Control of lucrative trade routes

b)

c

77.

The pope hoped that the crusade would do what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Reinforce the power of the pope

b)

c

78.

What crusade succeeded in capturing Jerusalem? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The first crusade 1096-1099

b)

c

79.

The crusades reintroduced Europeans to what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Writing of the Greeks and Romans.

b)

c

80.

Who reintroduced Europeans to writing of the Greeks and Romans? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The crusades.

b)

c

81.

The crusades stirred up and interest in what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Long distance trade.

b)

c

82.

The crusades helped to undermine what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Feudalism

b)

c

83.

What helped to undermine Feudalism? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The crusades

b)

c

84.

What was the earliest site of trade revival? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Italy

b)

c

85.

The Italian city-states of _____ and ______ became important. What? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The Italian city-states of Genoa and Venice became important trading centers.

b)

c

86.

What Italian city-states became important trading centers. (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Genoa and Venice

b)

c

87.

Who collected goods from Asia to bring back to cities in northern Europe? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Vikings traders

b)

c

88.

Vikings traders collected goods from ____ to bring back to cities in ______ (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Vikings traders collected goods from Asia to bring back to cities in Northern Europe.

b)

c

89.

German trading cities joined together to form what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The Hanseatic League

b)

c

90.

How was the Hanseatic League formed? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

German trading cities joined together to form it.

b)

c

91.

Early trade centers began to grow into where? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Towns and cities

b)

c

92.

As trade increased workers began to what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Unite in associations called guilds.

b)

c

93.

Workers began to unite in associations called? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Guilds

b)

c

94.

What traveled among track routes such as the silk road. (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The Plague

b)

c

95.

The Plague traveled among what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Track routes such as the silk road.

b)

c

96.

What increased the demand for Pascuti labor? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The plague

b)

c

97.

The Plague increased demand for Pascuti labor which in turn what happened? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Increased their wages, which to end Pedialism.

b)

c

98.

The renaissance was a period of? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Growth in European culture.

b)

c

99.

What period was the growth in European culture? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The Renaissance

b)

c

100.

What does Renaissance mean?

a)

Rebirth

b)

c

101.

The Renaissance began where?

a)

In Florence, Italy

b)

c

102.

Who gained translated classical texts and by who? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Europeans,by Muslim Scholars

b)

c

103.

The Medici family were? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Wealthy banker

b)

c

104.

The Medici are most famous for? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Their patronage of the arts.

b)

c

105.

Who are most famous for their patronage of the arts? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The Medici

b)

c

106.

Who inspired competitions among artists and think. (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The Medici

b)

c

107.

The Medici supported? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Michelangelo and Leonardo da vinci

b)

c

108.

Who supported Michelangelo and Leonardo da vinci (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The Medici

b)

c

109.

Renaissance artists were inspired by? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Realistic ancient Greek and Roman art.

b)

c

110.

Artists approached the visual arts as an? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Intellectual pursuit

b)

c

111.

What is Perspective in drawing? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Drawing or pointing a picture such that it look there are three dimensions.

b)

c

112.

What are Geometric arrangements are often used in? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Renaissance art

b)

c

113.

The style or Chiaroscuro is?(art) (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Using light and shadow in their works to add Drama.

b)

c

114.

Sfumato produces what?(art) (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Soft, imperceptible transitions between colors and tones.

b)

c

115.

Was Da Vinci an Italian Renaissance polymath? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Yes

b)

c

116.

Michelangelo is famous for painting? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The ceiling of the sistine chapel and carving of David and Pieta 

b)

c

117.

Who is traditionally called the “father of Humanism”? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Petrach

b)

c

118.

Petrach is traditionally called? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The father of Humanism

b)

c

119.

The term Humanism is often used for some of the key ideas and the overall split of the? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The Renaissance

b)

c

120.

What term is often used for some of the key ideas and the overall split of the Renaissance? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Humanism

b)

c

121.

What encouraged a new sense of the worth of the individual? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Humanism

b)

c

122.

The study of ancient Greek and Roman literature came to be called? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Classical educating

b)

c

123.

Machiavelli is often called? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

The father of modern political science

b)

c

124.

Who is often called the father of modern political science? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Machiaveli

b)

c

125.

Machiavelli brought the idea of realism into the decision of ? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Politics

b)

c

126.

Machiavelli brought the idea of ? into the decision of politics (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Realism

b)

c

127.

Machiavelli argued that a leader's authority to rule comes from? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)

a)

Power

b)

c