Chapter 10 Quiz

Islamic Civilization and Byzantium, 600–1300 CE
. The entirety of the Islamic moral and legal code, completed by the mid-900s, is known as the________.

. The first signs of a religious orientation within the Arab Empire occurred during the reign of ___________, the third Umayyad ruler.

. _______ is the paradigmatic "path" of Muhammad's traditions which, if trodden by believers, will lead to salvation.

. Which of the following is not one of the five religious duties which identify a Muslim?

. _________is a minority faith among Muslims, making up about 10% of the total, although they are in the majority in contemporary Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon.

. The traditions and biography of Muhammad were first gathered together ______________ years after his lifetime

. The Eastern Roman Empire would ultimately survive under the name of____________.

. ____________ is defined as the removal of all religious images from churches and monasteries

. In eighth-century Iran, local Persian military lords and Arab settlers revolted, expecting a "rightly guided" leader or _______to arrive and establish a realm of justice on earth.

. European Crusaders returned Nicaea to Byzantium and, in 1099 CE, captured_________.

. _________ was the Kurdish-descended successor of the Fatimids in Egypt nearly ended the Crusader Kingdom in 1187.

. Turkish military slaves from the Russian steppes and dominant in the armies of Saladin´s successors, the ____________established their own regime in agriculturally rich Egypt from 1250 to 1517.

. After the __________were pushed back to Iraq and Iran and converted to Islam, the Mamluks were able to terminate the Crusader Kingdom in 1291 with the conquest of Acre.

. At the top of the Mamluk state was the______, who controlled the annual purchases of slaves and commanded the largest cavalry regiment.

. Pronoia was a Byzantine system of __________, wherein an assignee collected taxes in exchange for military service.

. Scholars surmise that the _____________________set off the spread of the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century.

. _________is a mystical and meditative devotion to faith, expressed in the form of prayer, ecstasy, chanting, or dancing.

. Why was painting and sculpting absent from the public sphere in the Islamic world?

. The ___________is the best preserved example of an Islamic palace in the world.

. Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd were important Muslim scholars who worked to reconcile ________________ thought with Islam.

. Rather than retaking Jerusalem, the Fourth Crusade conquered _______________ in 1204 CE.

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A map traces the Arab conquered area in 750 C E according to Islamic tradition. They started with Egypt in 632 C E, and they extended their territory toward Northwest Africa and southwest Europe. Other routes took them eastward across the Middle East and Central Asia up to Turkestan and Afghanistan. The Byzantine Empire comprised Libya, Egypt, Italy, and other islands in the Mediterranean Sea circa 630 C E. The battle of Poitiers in France occurred in 732. The battles of Yarmuk in Syria and Qadisiyya in Arabia occurred in 636. The battle of Kerbala in Iraq occurred in 637. The battle of Talas in Turkestan occurred in 751. There were military settlements in Carthage and Iraq. Unsuccessful sieges of Constantinople occurred in 673 to 678 and 717 to 718.


Which was the last region of North Africa taken by the Arab conquests?

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Two photos. Photo A: the Hagia Sophia. Photo B: the Cathedral of Saint Sophia.


Even though the architectural styles of the two cathedrals are different, both are part of which Christian sect?

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An illustration depicts two armored horsemen fighting each other with lance and sword.


The Mamluk cavalry pictured above were key to stopping the Mongols from fully conquering the Middle East. What was the origins of the Mamluks?

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