Tuesday, October 31, 2017

The Arab Empire and the Caliphates Notes Continued 10/31

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.

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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