© 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. CHAPTER 11. © 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. 1.How might Islam be properly considered an empire? A.For unifying government

© 2006 Pearson Education, Inc.

CHAPTER 11


1. How might Islam be properly considered an empire?

A. For unifying government and religion into a single system

B. By maintaining a strict political control over all its conquests to the present day

C. By preserving the Muslim faith free of all sects and internal disagreements

D. By the consistent rule of a single dynasty descended from the Prophet


CORRECT ANSWER = A

B. The territories conquered by Islam splintered into independent countries

C. There were differences, and a major split, almost from the beginning

D. There have been many Islamic dynasties


2. How was the defeat of Chinese forces by Muslims instrumental in spreading Islam?

A. The Chinese converted to Islam

B. Muslim missionaries were encouraged to enter China

C. The Chinese learned papermaking and copied the Quran

D. The city of Samarkand was established


CORRECT ANSWER = C

A. & B. did not occur

D. This did not occur as a direct result


3. How may the umma be defined/

A. The lands under Muslim rule

B. The pilgrimage to Mecca

C. The “sixth pillar”

D. The community of Muslim believers


CORRECT ANSWER = D

A. This was dar al-Islam

B. This was the hajj

C. This was the jihad


4. What is considered the central moment in Islamic history?

A. Muhammad’s conversion of many Jews

B. Muhammad’s writing down of the Quran

C. Muhammad’s flight to Medina

D. None of these things ever occurred


CORRECT ANSWER = C

A. Muhammad tried, but failed to convert many Jews

B. It was only written down later, during the time of Caliph Umar I


5. What best describes Muhammad’s place in the Muslim religion:

A. The first Muslim

B. The founder of Islam

C. The originator of a new doctrine

D. A messenger of God


CORRECT ANSWER = D

A. It is claimed that Abraham actually was

B. Adam is said to have been the first Islamic prophet

C. Islamic is asserted to have existed from Abraham’s time


6. Over what issue did the Shi’a – Sunni split within Islam arise:

A. The succession to the office of caliph

B. How to administer conquered territory

C. Segregation of Arabs from conquered peoples

D. Changes in local taxation and administrative systems


CORRECT ANSWER = A

B. There seems to have been little disagreement here

C. This proved to be impossible in any case

D. These systems were mainly left intact


7. What major change was initiated by Mu’awiya, and continued as a hallmark by succeeding Umayyads?

A. Identifying strongly with the Arabian Muslim elite

B. Peace with the Shi’ites

C. Cosmopolitanism

D. Establishing the early principles of Muslim political administration


CORRECT ANSWER = C

A. He deliberately distanced himself from them

B. He was never able to achieve this

D. This had already been done by Umar I


8. How did the Abbasids copy the Umayyads?

A. Employing Arabic as the official, unifying language

B. By firing non-Arabs from government positions

C. By keeping the capital centered at Baghdad

D. Trimming down the bureaucracy to save expenses


CORRECT ANSWER = A

B. They employed a variety of peoples from all regions of the Empire

C. The Umayyad capital had been at Damascus

D. The bureaucracy expanded to unprecedented levels


9. What occurred after the reign of Harun al-Rashid?

A. The empire grew stronger and more centralized

B. The empire began to disintegrate into quasi-independent states

C. There was a vast influx of men volunteering to serve in the army

D. Slave troops were gradually phased out


CORRECT ANSWER = B

A. It weakened and began coming apart

C. It became more difficult to recruit soldiers

D. Use of slave troops expanded sharply


10. What effect did the influx of Turkish peoples have on the Islamic world?

A. Enabling the Caliphs to put more pressure on China

B. Bringing the Shi’ites to power in Baghdad

C. Completely destroying the Abbasid Caliphate

D. Creating a Turkish Sultanate that dominated the region


CORRECT ANSWER = D

A. It was actually pressure from China that caused Turks to migrate westward

B. The Shi’ite Fatimids took power of Egypt

C. The Mongols did this much later (1258)


11. How did most of India’s Muslim rulers handle the unique religious situation there?

A. Coming to a respectful religious accommodation with the Hindu majority

B. Openly favoring only monotheists in Sind

C. Launching a determined campaign to coerce the Hindus into accepting Islam

D. Watering down the Islamic faith to venerate certain Hindu gods


CORRECT ANSWER = A

B. They gave Hindus there the same privileges as monotheists

C. They realized that against such a large majority, this was impossible

D. They did venerate some Hindu saints, but not gods


12. How did Islam arrive in Sib-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia?

A. Through Arabian fleets that attacked the coastal cities

B. Through traders and Sufis

C. Through Sh’ite refugees

D. Through the efforts of King Sundiata


CORRECT ANSWER = B

A. Such mass attacks did not occur

C. There was no such notable refugee migrations

D. Sundiata was king of Mali and had nothing to do with Southeast Asia


13. What best describes the West African adaptation of Islam?

A. Many officially accepted Islam, but continued to participate in indigenous religious practices

B. The kings allowed their people to become Muslims, but were ashamed to do so themselves

C. The kings were personally all very strict Muslims, but allowed their people leeway

D. Friendship with the Berbers resulted in enthusiastic acceptance by West Africans


CORRECT ANSWER = A

B. It was a source of prestige for kings to associate with Islamic institutions

C. Many kings, like Sundiata, continued the old religious practices as well

D. They were often at war with the Berbers


14. What was accomplished by the reconquista?

A. The recovery of Jerusalem by European Christians

B. The re-establishment of Christian rule in Spain

C. The reunification of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity

D. The expulsion of the Jewish and Muslim population from Spain


CORRECT ANSWER = B

A. This actually happened with the First Crusade in 1099

C. This did not happen and the split became worse

D. This happened long after the reconquista


15. What can most accurately be said about historic relations between the three great monotheistic faiths?

A. Reciprocally beneficial coexistence has been the exception rather than the rule

B. Their very closeness in proselytizing has tended to bring them closer

C. They have rarely sought to exercise political control

D. Unlike the other two, Islam has experienced no internal divisions


CORRECT ANSWER = A

B. It has rather tended to make them competitive

C. They have consistently tried to so

D. Islam has been no different in this regard

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