Rise and Spread of Islam

Chap 6/7/8

Rise and Spread of Islam

1.  Define/identify the following:

Islam Caliph Bedouin Ummayad

Abbasid Ka’ba Shia Sunni

A Thousand and One Nights Saladin Mahmud of Ghazni

Muhammad of Ghur

2.  What was life like in Bedouin society?

3.  Be able to tell the basic tenants of Islam including the 5 Pillars.

4.  What caused Muhammad to flee to Medina? How was he able to return to Mecca?

5.  Why did early Muslim warriors not want to convert many of the locals?

6.  Why was Uthman so disliked by many Arabs when he was elected Caliph?

7.  What was life like for Arab Muslims and non-Arab Muslims during the Umayyad Empire?

8.  What happened to the Caliph Ali? Why?

9.  What was life like for women in the Abbasid dynasty?

10.  How did Persians get such influence in the Abbasid dynasty? Why was that a problem? What language becomes part of the later Abbasid dynasty? (Arabic is still the official language)

11.  Why did agricultural society in the Abbasid dynasty become disrupted?

12.  What helped lead to the decline of the Abbasid dynasty? Who conquered them?

13.  When did Damascus become an important center of the Muslim world?

14.  When was Baghdad the main center of the Muslim world?

15.  Why were the Crusades fought? What was their outcome?

16.  How did they influence the Christian world? How did they influence the Muslim world?

17.  How does Islam compare to the Christian and Jewish faith?

18.  How does Islam compare to Hinduism?

19.  What are the major differences between Shia and Sunni Muslims?

20.  What happened in the following years:

622 1055 1099 1187 1258

711

21.  How did the Crusades impact the Muslim faith? The Christian faith?

22.  Who were the Sufis? What effect did they have on the spread of Islam?

23.  How did Islam spread to India and SE Asia? What groups were drawn to Islam and why?

Chapter 8 on back

Chapter 8

Identify the following:

Juula Demographic transition Ibn Batuta

Sahel Timbuktu Nok

Swahili Yoruba Mansa Musa

Maghrib Zenji

1.  What were the main kingdoms of Africa? List characteristics of each.

2.  What were stateless societies like in Africa?

3.  What was religion like in Africa?

4.  What had the greatest impact on Africa from 800 to 1500 from the outside world?

5.  What did secret societies do in Africa?

6.  What was slavery like in Muslim society?

7.  How did Islam affect trade in Africa?

8.  How were African societies different from Christian and Islamic societies?

9.  How was Ethiopia different religiously from other areas of Africa? Why?