QuestionAnswerWhat two empires were at war during much of Muhammad’s prophetic career?the Byzantines and the Sasaniansthe Mughal and the Sasaniansthe Byzantines and the Aksumitesthe Himyarites and the Holy Roman EmpireAccording to Muslim belief, which of the following statements is true?Muslims worship the same God as Jewish people and Christians.Muhammad was the first in a long line of monotheistic prophets.Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad were the same person.Islam is a polytheistic faith.What is the holy scripture of Islam?QuranTorahBibleKaabaWhat united the members of Muhammad’s ummah?the belief in one God, Muhammad’s leadership, and mutual defensethe use of the Arabic language and service to the Byzantine Empireprevious membership in the Jewish faithresidence in the city of MeccaWhat state was defeated and assimilated into the early Islamic state?Sasanian PersiaHan ChinaAksumite EthiopiaByzantine EmpireIn the earliest decades of Muslim rule, what was the most important differentiator of status?Muslim versus non-MuslimArab versus Persianconqueror versus conqueredByzantine versus RomanWho were the mawali in early Islamic society?non-Arab converts to Islamreligious leaders of the young Muslim communitycaravan traders traveling along the Silk Roadsthe first dynasty of IslamWhat were the Ridda Wars?a conflict between Muslims and other Arab tribes that began the conquest of Arabiathe Arab-Muslim invasion of Sasanian Persiathe first Islamic civil waran uprising of enslaved people against the Umayyad dynastyWhy did the Muslims create Baghdad as a new capital city?The center of the Islamic world was shifting eastward after the Abbasid Revolution.No other cities were hospitable to the Arabs, so they needed to build their own.The Abbasids wanted to return the capital of their empire to Arabia.The Byzantines recaptured the old capital city of Damascus.Where was the province of Khurasan located?Northeastern PersiaWestern ArabiaSoutheastern PersiaNorth AfricaWhat did the process of Islamization look like during the early Abbasid period?Christians adopted the Arabic language and Islamic forms of dress while not necessarily converting to Islam.The entire Indigenous population of the Middle East and North Africa converted to Islam.People feared Muslims and the Muslim faith more generally.Arab-Muslims refused to allow any non-Arabs to convert to Islam.What was a defining feature of the earliest supporters of Ali, who became the Shia?the elevation of the family of Muhammad through his son in-law Alithe refusal to recognize Muhammad as an Islamic propheta belief in multiple gods that are subservient to the one God of Islamthe refusal to support the Abbasid family over the Umayyads in the Abbasid RevolutionPractice this lessonThe content of this course has been taken from the free World History, Volume 1: to 1500 textbook by Openstax
