WorksheetsMecca and Early Islamic History
Total questions: 127
Worksheet time: 1hrs 4mins
The Arabian Peninsula was dominated by ______ that tried ______? (Islam History & Religion)
The Arabian Peninsula was dominated by independent Arab tribes that profited from lucrative trade routes.
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Where was Muhammad born? (Islam History & Religion)
Mecca.
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What is Mecca? (Islam History & Religion)
A trading town that people from around the Arabian Peninsula came to worship idols inside the Kabba.
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Why did people from around the Arabian Peninsula came to Mecca? (Islam History & Religion)
To worship idols inside the Kabba
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Muhammad began to had vision of what? (Islam History & Religion)
Vision from an angel sending him messages from God.
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What do Muslims believe about the Quran?
That it contains the literal words of God.
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Muhammad began to share what and to who?
Muhummas began to share his messages with the people of Mecca.
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Muhummad led his followers to what city which is also called what?
The City of Median which is also called the Hijrah
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The city of Median is also called what? (Islam History & Religion)
Hijrah
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Most of the Arabia Peninsula was unified under the authority of? (Islam History & Religion)
The Ummah
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The Hadith are a collection of? (Islam History & Religion)
Traditions containing saying of the prophet Muhumad.
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What are collection of traditions containing sayings of Muhummad.
The Hadith
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After Muhummad’s death leadership of the Muslims passed to a?
Passed to a successor called a caliph.
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The Rashidun Caliphate consisted of the what? (Islam History & Religion)
The First 4 caliphs.
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What consisted of the first four caliphs? (Islam History & Religion)
The Rashidun Caliphate
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The first three caliphates claimed what? (Islam History & Religion)
Claimed their right to rule by virtue of their adherence to the Quran?
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When the first three caliphates claim their right, they became know as what? (Islam History & Religion)
Sunnis
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Followers of Ali believed what? (Islam History & Religion)
That only direct descendants of Muhammad had the authority to rule, which they became known as
Shia.
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The followers of Ali became known as what? (Islam History & Religion)
Shia
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Who was the last Rashidun Caliph? (Islam History & Religion)
Ali
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Hussein was killed where? (Islam History & Religion)
At the battle Karbala.
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The Umayyad Caliphate succeeded what? (Islam History & Religion)
The Rashidum
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Who succeeded The Rashidum? (Islam History & Religion)
The Umayyad Caliphate
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The Umayyad Caliphate expanded rapidly to include much of what? (Islam History & Religion)
Much of northern African, Western India, and Spain.
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______ expanded rapidly to include much of northern Africa, Western India, and Spain. (Islam History & Religion)
The Umayyad Caliphate.
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The Umayyad built the? (Islam History & Religion)
The Dome of the Rock
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Who built the Dome of the Rock? (Islam History & Religion)
The Umayyad
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Why is the Dome of the Rock important? (Islam History & Religion)
The location of the Dome of the Rock is holy for Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
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Muslims force established control over much of? (Islam History & Religion)
Spain
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What was Cordoba? (Islam History & Religion)
A world leading center of education
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What is Cordoba known for? (Islam History & Religion)
Its known for its religious tolerance.
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Early Scholarship from Greece and Rome was presented by? (Islam History & Religion)
Muslims Scholars.
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Al-Kindi was known as? (Islam History & Religion)
The father of Arab Philosophy
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Who was known as the father of Arab Philosophy? (Islam History & Religion)
Al-Kindi
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Who was known for their eight five commanders on Aristotle? (Islam History & Religion)
Averroes
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Averroes was known for his? (Islam History & Religion)
85 commanders on Aristotle
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Al-khwarizmi was the father of? (Islam History & Religion)
Algebra
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Al-Haytham was one of the worlds first? (Islam History & Religion)
theoretical physician.
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Iba sina is most famous for? (Islam History & Religion)
Writing the canon of Medicine
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Who is most famous for writing the canon of Medicine? (Islam History & Religion)
Iba Sina
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The Carolingian kings gained their power though what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
An alliance with the Roman catholic church.
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Carolingian Power reached its peak under? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
Charlemagne who built an empire.
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Charlemagne built what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
A Empire
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Carlemangne is considered the father of? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
German and French
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Who is considered the father of German and French? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
Charlemagne
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Who was crowned the "Emperor of the Romans” by the pope? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
Charlemagne
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Charlemagne was crowned the what and by who? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
Emperor of the Romans by the pope
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The holy Roman Emperor was considered the leader of? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
the monarchs in Europe
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After the fall of Rome what started to decline and where? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
Political authority trade urbanization and literary decline in western europe.
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What emerged under the Franks? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
Political unity and a cultural revival
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Political unity and a cultural revival emerged under the____? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
Franks
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What is the political system that linked landholding with military service? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
Feudalism
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Small communities were formed around what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
Around local lord and the manor
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What were formed around local lord and the manor? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
Small communities
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What is the self sufficient economic system that developed on the feudal lord’s field? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaisssances)
manorialism
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The term manorialism is used to describe what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The self sufficient economic system that developed on the feudal lord’s field.
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Manorialism means to self sufficient economic system that developed on what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The feudal lords field
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Peasants were considered what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Free and could own their own businesses
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Serfs? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Serfs owned nothing and were pledged to their local lord
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Who are free and could own businesses and who were the ones who could own nothing and were pledged? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Peasants were free and could own businesses and Serfs had nothing and were pledged.
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The Catholic Church became the most important what and where? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The most important unifying and stabilizing force in western europe during the middle ages.
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What became the most important unifying and stabilizing force in western europe during the middle ages. (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The Catholic Church
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Medieval Catholicism taught what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
That the clergy could intercept the scripture.
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Few Europeans outside the clergy could read? Yes or No (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Yes few
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What taught that the clergy could interpret the scripture? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Medieval Catholicism
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The Clergy alone could do what?(Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Could administer rituals required to achieve heaven.
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What could administer rituals required to achieve heaven? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The Clergy
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The church enforced what? And to who? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Enforced a law on all believers.
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The most powerful tool of the church was what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The threat and use of excommunication and interdiction
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What were a series of wars where Christians tried to retake control of Jerusalem. (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The crusades
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The crusades were what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
A series of wars where christians tried to retake control of Jerusalem.
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The Crusades began when? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The seljuk turks took control of the holy land
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The pope taught that anyone that went on a crusade would be what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Forgiven of their sins
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Those seeking economic advantage hoped what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
That the crusades would offer opportunities for treasure.
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Who sought control of lucrative trade routes? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Italian Merchants
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Italian Merchants sought what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Control of lucrative trade routes
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The pope hoped that the crusade would do what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Reinforce the power of the pope
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What crusade succeeded in capturing Jerusalem? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The first crusade 1096-1099
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The crusades reintroduced Europeans to what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Writing of the Greeks and Romans.
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Who reintroduced Europeans to writing of the Greeks and Romans? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The crusades.
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The crusades stirred up and interest in what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Long distance trade.
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The crusades helped to undermine what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Feudalism
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What helped to undermine Feudalism? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The crusades
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What was the earliest site of trade revival? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Italy
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The Italian city-states of _____ and ______ became important. What? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The Italian city-states of Genoa and Venice became important trading centers.
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What Italian city-states became important trading centers. (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Genoa and Venice
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Who collected goods from Asia to bring back to cities in northern Europe? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Vikings traders
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Vikings traders collected goods from ____ to bring back to cities in ______ (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Vikings traders collected goods from Asia to bring back to cities in Northern Europe.
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German trading cities joined together to form what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The Hanseatic League
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How was the Hanseatic League formed? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
German trading cities joined together to form it.
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Early trade centers began to grow into where? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Towns and cities
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As trade increased workers began to what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Unite in associations called guilds.
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Workers began to unite in associations called? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Guilds
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What traveled among track routes such as the silk road. (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The Plague
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The Plague traveled among what? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Track routes such as the silk road.
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What increased the demand for Pascuti labor? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The plague
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The Plague increased demand for Pascuti labor which in turn what happened? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Increased their wages, which to end Pedialism.
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The renaissance was a period of? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Growth in European culture.
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What period was the growth in European culture? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The Renaissance
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What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
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The Renaissance began where?
In Florence, Italy
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Who gained translated classical texts and by who? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Europeans,by Muslim Scholars
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The Medici family were? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Wealthy banker
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The Medici are most famous for? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Their patronage of the arts.
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Who are most famous for their patronage of the arts? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The Medici
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Who inspired competitions among artists and think. (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The Medici
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The Medici supported? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Michelangelo and Leonardo da vinci
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Who supported Michelangelo and Leonardo da vinci (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The Medici
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Renaissance artists were inspired by? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Realistic ancient Greek and Roman art.
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Artists approached the visual arts as an? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Intellectual pursuit
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What is Perspective in drawing? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Drawing or pointing a picture such that it look there are three dimensions.
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What are Geometric arrangements are often used in? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Renaissance art
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The style or Chiaroscuro is?(art) (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Using light and shadow in their works to add Drama.
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Sfumato produces what?(art) (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Soft, imperceptible transitions between colors and tones.
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Was Da Vinci an Italian Renaissance polymath? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Yes
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Michelangelo is famous for painting? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The ceiling of the sistine chapel and carving of David and Pieta
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Who is traditionally called the “father of Humanism”? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Petrach
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Petrach is traditionally called? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The father of Humanism
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The term Humanism is often used for some of the key ideas and the overall split of the? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The Renaissance
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What term is often used for some of the key ideas and the overall split of the Renaissance? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Humanism
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What encouraged a new sense of the worth of the individual? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Humanism
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The study of ancient Greek and Roman literature came to be called? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Classical educating
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Machiavelli is often called? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
The father of modern political science
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Who is often called the father of modern political science? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Machiaveli
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Machiavelli brought the idea of realism into the decision of ? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Politics
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Machiavelli brought the idea of ? into the decision of politics (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Realism
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Machiavelli argued that a leader's authority to rule comes from? (Middle Ages, Crusades & Renaissance)
Power
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