EUS 210 Exam 5

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In what year was Muhammad born?

570AD

Where was a fabled lighthouse located?

Alexandria

What was the Abbasid capital?

Baghdad

To which group of peoples do the ancient Mitanni belong?

Indo-Aryan

Which group is NOT Semitic?

Persians

What language was written using the Devanagari alphabet?

Sanskrit

Hajj is:

pilgrimage to Mecca

Salat is

ritual prayer five times daily

What is the relationship between Meluhha and the Indus Valley Civilization?

two names for the same culture

The year when Muhammad is believed to have begun having angelic revelations:

610AD

Which successor of Muhammad prevented Arab tribes from drifting away from Islam in the years immediately after the Prophet's death?

Abu Bakr

Give the correct chronological order of the four rightly guided caliphs:

Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali

Pashtun and Hazara live in what country?

Afghanistan

Which caliph was married to Fatima, Muhammad's beloved daughter?

Ali

Who won and who lost at the Battle of Talas?

Arabs defeated China

Name the country that does NOT have a Christian majority or significant minority:

Azerbaijan

What language isolate is spoken in northern Pakistan?

Burushaski

Who was Justinian?

Byzantine Emperor

What was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire?

Byzantium

The original location of Seljuq Turks:

Central Asia

Dhimmi means:

Christians or Jews

Where did the Umayyads have their capital city?

Damascus, Syria

In what country do the Copts live?

Egypt

Name the country that does NOT have a Shi'ite majority or a significant Shi'ite minority?

Egypt

Name the country that is NOT predominantly Muslim:

Ethiopia

True or False: Muslims consider that Muhammad is the author of the Koran (Qur'an).

False

True or False: The ancient Sumerians were pastoralists.

False

True or False: The verses in the Koran are arranged in order of when they were received by Muhammad.

False

Who was Charles Martel and what did he do?

French king, prevented Arab conquest of Western Europe

What language predominated in the EASTERN Mediterranean in late Roman times?

Greek

Which group did NOT benefit from the upheavals at the beginning of the "Dark Ages"?

Greeks

What prominent languages belong to the Afroasiatic language family.

Hebrew and Arabic

What nomadic invasion contributed significantly to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476AD?

Huns

Name the country that is about evenly divided between Sunni Arabs, Shi'ite Arabs and Sunni Kurds:

Iraq

The ancient Sumerian farmers lived in the territory of what modern country?

Iraq

Choose the accurate statement:

Islam flourished first in Medina

Ummah is:

Islamic community of believers

Sharia is:

Islamic law

Who prevented Arab infiltration of Eastern Europe?

Khazars

Sura is:

Koran verse

What city did Muhammad live in originally?

Mecca

Who founded the Umayyad Dynasty?

Muawiyah

Who won the Battle of Badr?

Muhammad

Abu-Bakr is:

Muhammad's father-in-law

Abu Talib is:

Muhammad's uncle

Hijra is:

Muhammads flight from Mecca to Medina

What was Greek fire?

Nobody really knows.

Who was the first NON-SEMITIC group to build an empire in the Middle East?

Persians

The month of fasting in Islam:

Ramadan

What Persian-speaking empire was the adversary of the Byzantine Empire?

Sassanid

Who were the Akkadians?

Semites

Who were the ancient Israelites?

Semites

To what larger linguistic and ethnic group do the Assyrians and Babylonians belong?

Semitic

Who supported Hassan?

Shi'ites

What group did the Akkadians replace?

Sumerians

Which group in Islam believes any person who follows the teachings of Muhammad and of the Koran can be leader of the ummah?

Sunni

What is true about all of the major countries of the modern Middle East?

The ancestral culture and language was pastoralist.

What is true about the Arabs before 570AD ?

They were skilled desert pastoralists.

Where did most Muslims live during Roman Empire times?

Totally trick question - Rome fell before Muhammad was born.

What country was Islamic during Roman Empire times?

Trick question! Muhammad was born only AFTER the collapse of Rome.

True or false: Arabic was not widely spoken in Africa until after Muhammad.

True

Which Caliph conquered Egypt?

Umar

Which Caliph conquered the Sassanid (Persian) Empire?

Umar

Give the correct chronology of caliphates:

Umayyad, Abbasid

Which Rightly Guided Caliph authorized the 'official' version of the Koran?

Uthman

What religion was prominent among the ancient Persians?

Zoroastrianism

Zakat is:

almsgiving

Jibril is:

angel who visited Muhammad

What was the fate of Umar?

assassinated by Persian captive

Hadith is:

body of sayings recorded from the life of Muhammad

What was the religion of the Umayyad and Abbasid rulers?

both were Sunni

What disease caused the "Plague of Justinian"?

bubonic plague

What had severely depopulated much of North Africa on the eve of the Arab conquests?

bubonic plague

The crescent moon symbol in Islam .... (choose the most accurate way to complete the sentence):

came to be commonly used only centuries after Muhammad

Meccan verses in the Koran:

deal primarily with matters of faith

What is the significance of the year 632AD?

death of Muhammad

How did Slavic tribes become the majority population in most of the Balkans (Southeastern Europe)

disease had depopulated the area

Sawm is:

fasting

Khadijah is:

first wife of Muhammad

What is NOT true about the Arabic language:

first written down by early Muslims

What happened to Muhammad in 622AD?

fled to Medina

What does 'caliph' literally mean in Arabic?

follower, successor

The literal meaning of 'sultan':

governor

What literally made the Dark Ages dark?

less sunlight reaching the earth

What cultural item was destroyed during the Arab conquest of Egypt?

library

What was the fate of Uthman?

murdered by Egyptian rebels

What was the significance of the Battle of Talas?

opened Central Asia up to Islam

Minaret is:

part of a mosque

Muezzin is:

person who calls the faithful to prayer

Shahadah is

proclamation of Muslim faith

What is 'apostasy'?

renouncing one's religion

What was the early Turkic spirituality and racial type?

shamanist, Asian

Ka'aba is:

shrine in Mecca

Ghulam is:

slave soldier in Central Asia

Mameluke is:

slave soldier in Egypt

This location is generally thought to be the original Turkic homeland:

south Siberia

Great Jihad is:

struggle within self to live correctly

Jizya is:

tax on non-Muslims

Sunna is:

traditions of Muhammad's life

What event seems to have been responsible for the climate irregularities of the mid-sixth century AD?

volcanic eruption


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