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Ch 11 Test 8th World history
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  • 1. a group of traveling merchants and animals
A) Bedouin
B) Quran
C) caravan
D) sheikh
E) oasis
  • 2. the holy book of Islam
A) Quran
B) sheikh
C) oasis
D) Bedouin
E) caravan
  • 3. a desert herder who went from place to place
A) oasis
B) caravan
C) Quran
D) Bedouin
E) sheikh
  • 4. a green area fed by underground water
A) Quran
B) sheikh
C) oasis
D) caravan
E) Bedouin
  • 5. the head of a tribe
A) oasis
B) caravan
C) sheikh
D) Quran
E) Bedouin
  • 6. means “holder of power”
A) Mogul
B) sultan
C) Sunni
D) caliph
E) Shiite
  • 7. successor to the Messenger of God
A) Mogul
B) Sunni
C) sultan
D) Shiite
E) caliph
  • 8. people who believed that Ali’s descendants should rule Islam
A) sultan
B) Sunni
C) Mogul
D) Shiite
E) caliph
  • 9. people who created a Muslim empire in India
A) Sunni
B) Mogul
C) sultan
D) Shiite
E) caliph
  • 10. people who believed that the Umayyad dynasty should rule Islam
A) Sunni
B) sultan
C) Shiite
D) caliph
E) Mogul
  • 11. Muslim houses of worship
A) minaret
B) bazaar
C) mosque
D) crier
E) al-Razi
  • 12. the best-known Muslim chemist
A) crier
B) al-Razi
C) bazaar
D) mosque
E) minaret
  • 13. a person who calls believers to prayer five times a day
A) crier
B) minaret
C) al-Razi
D) bazaar
E) mosque
  • 14. the marketplace
A) al-Razi
B) crier
C) mosque
D) bazaar
E) minaret
  • 15. a tower from which believers are called to prayer
A) minaret
B) crier
C) al-Razi
D) mosque
E) bazaar
  • 16. ____ cover(s) most of the Arabian Peninsula.
A) Mountains
B) Desert
C) Swamp
D) Grassy plains
  • 17. The early Arabians worshiped many gods and goddesses but ____ was considered to be the most important.
A) Kaaba
B) Bedouin
C) Allah
D) Makkah
  • 18. The prophet ____ was also the founder of the Islamic faith.
A) Abu Talib
B) Muhammad
C) Madinah
D) Yathrib
  • 19. Muslims, Jews, and Christians have a common belief in ____.
A) gods and goddesses.
B) fasting.
C) one God.
D) pilgrimage.
  • 20. The Quran provided Muslims with guidelines for daily life and
A) government.
B) farming
C) schools
D) commerce.
  • 21. The first caliph to take over after Muhammad’s death was
A) Abu Bakr.
B) Ali.
C) Umar
D) Uthman
  • 22. Similar to Christian missionaries, ____ spread the teachings of Islam.
A) Sunnis
B) Shiites
C) Caliphs
D) Sufis
  • 23. Soon after Muhammad’s death, the Muslim world split into what two groups?
A) Sufis and Sunnis
B) Sunnis and Shiites
C) Shiites and Caliphs
D) Caliphs and Sufis
  • 24. This famous Ottoman sultan was a man of many talents.
A) Uthman
B) Abu al-Abbas
C) Akbar
D) Suleiman I
  • 25. This great Mogul ruler brought peace and order to India in the 1500s.
A) Uthman
B) Suleiman I
C) Abu al-Abbas
D) Akbar
  • 26. Muslim traders were successful because they spread the Arabic language and provided merchants with
A) education.
B) coins
C) banks
D) business records.
  • 27. In Muslim society, social groups were based on
A) family connections.
B) education
C) religious beliefs.
D) power and wealth.
  • 28. ____ was a Persian doctor who showed how diseases were spread from person to person.
A) Ibn Khaldun
B) Omar Khayyam
C) Ibn Sina
D) al-Razi
  • 29. Among his many talents, Omar Khayyam is best known as the poet who wrote
A) The Arabian Nights.
B) The House of Wisdom.
C) the Rubaiyat.
D) Muqaddimah
  • 30. The Mogul ruler Shah Jahan built ____, a Muslim tomb, for his wife in Agra, India.
A) the Alhambra
B) the Mosque
C) The House of Wisdom
D) the Taj Mahal
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