Today as a class we finished the questions that we started last week on the Arab Empire:
If you did not copy down the questions here they are below with the answers on a separate file at the bottom of the page.
If you did not copy down the questions here they are below with the answers on a separate file at the bottom of the page.
The Arab Empire and
the Caliphates Reading Questions
1.
How had Abu Bakr been involved in the founding
of Islam? P. 210
2.
How and why do empires develop and grow? P. 210
3.
What advantages did the Arabs have? P. 211
4.
Who was Mu’awiyah? P. 212
5.
Why was the battle of tours a turning point in
European history? P. 212
6.
Why was there a break between the Sunni and Shia
groups of Islam? P. 213
7.
How did Islam impact Asia and Africa? P. 213
8.
Why did the Umayyad dynasty begin to lose the
support of the people? P. 213
9.
What brought about the fall of the Abbasid
dynasty? P. 214
10.
How might the weakened condition of the empire
have led to a division within the Arab Empire? P. 214
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