EUS 210 Exam 5
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
