HIWD 370 Quiz Rise of Islam
HIWD 370 Quiz 3: Rise of Islam and Civilizations in Africa
Covers the Textbook material from Module 3: Week 3.
- The _____ Pillars of Islam outline the basic obligations of all believers.
- The Ka’aba
- According to Islamic belief
- A primary contribution of Arab scholarship was the
- Muhammad was born into an elite family of scholars and poets.
- Like the Seljuk Turks, the Mongols were Muslims.
- In addition to being Islam’s sacred book, the Koran
- Ibn Sina used the work of ____ to support his own belief in natural laws.
- In general terms, it can be said that Islamic society
- Caliph (or khalifa) literally means
- In 1291, ____, the last stronghold of the crusaders, fell to Muslim forces.
- The caliphate that is often described as the Abbasid “Golden Age” was the reign of
- The poet who wrote the Rubaiyat was
- The crusades made Christian Europeans a major force in the Middle East until the beginning of the eighteenth century.
- The diwan was a
- Until the 1950s, the prevailing view among Western historians was that Africa was a continent without a history.
- What was the ancient African kingdom that claimed to be descended from the Arabian kingdom of Saba (or Sheba)?
- What is the earliest form of surviving architecture found in Africa?
- The southern African state of Zimbabwe
- The Khoi people of southern Africa were
- In the states of West Africa, the focal point of the major towns was the
- Swahili civilization was based on a mixture of native African and ____ cultures.
- The northern area of Africa, from the Atlantic to the Indian Oceans, is composed of the greatest desert on Earth, the
- Slavery in Africa
- If one traveled south from the grasslands of central Africa, one would reach
- The Epic of Son-Jara tells the story of the founder and ruler of
- Prior to the arrival of Islam, most African religions were monotheistic.
- A(n) ____ settlement was established on the island of Madagascar in the early first millennium C.E.
- The original reason for the rise of the kingdom of Ghana was
- The Garamantes