APWH Chapter 8: The Rise of Islam (600 c.e. to 1200 b.c.e.)

(A) pastoral nomadism.

(B) trade caravans.

(C) maritime trading.

(D) artisanship.

(A) Judaism and Buddhism.

(B) Judaism and Hinduism.

(C) Judaism and Christianity.

(D) Judaism and Zoroastrianism.

(A) converts to Islam numbered no more than 10 percent.

(B) growing unrest among non-Arab Muslims, who demanded access to political power.

(C) a peasant revolt over increases in taxes and decreases in wages.

(D) the arrival of a Jewish messiah.

(A) It created a refined and cosmopolitan culture in Baghdad.

(B) The Spanish region was considered the golden frontier.

(C) It used gold as the standard coinage throughout the empire.

(D) It used the golden cow as the focus of religious worship.

(A) there were constant revolts of non-Muslims against forced conversion.

(B) the empire had to resist nomadic pressures on the frontier.

(C) the empire had become too big to rule effectively.

(D) new religious practices developed that challenged the appeal of Islam.

(A) Social justice and obedient worship are demanded of every human.

(B) Reject idolatrous worship of false gods.

(C) Submit oneself completely to God's will.

(D) All of these answers are correct.

(A) growing influence of Russian and Frankish traditions in Spain.

(B) decrease in Arab power combined with a growing Christian influence.

(C) Viking invasions of the ninth century.

(D) blending of Roman, Germanic, Jewish, Arab, and Berber traditions.

(A) They were permitted to divorce.

(B) They often played a role in public life.

(C) They were permitted to practice birth control.

(D) They were permitted to own property.

(A) quest for a direct union with God through rituals and training.

(B) blending of Christian and Buddhist ideas into Islam.

(C) rejection of religious formalism.

(D) new doctrine that excluded the lower classes.

(A) Fear that Muslims in conquered lands were "going native" and abandoning Islamic teachings

(B) The imam Ali's new revelation and elaboration of the teachings of Islam

(C) The belief that Husayn, the son of Ali, was the real messiah

(D) Disagreement over who should assume leadership in the Islamic world

(A) The weakened condition of the Byzantine and Persian empires

(B) A smooth succession of caliphs selected by election

(C) The violent campaigns against infidels

(D) The uniting of all Arabs behind Muhammad's relative Ali

(A) Women were always to remain veiled and secluded.

(B) Women were solely to blame for the existence of evil in the world.

(C) Women were spiritually equal to men.

(D) Women were socially equal to men.

(A) The disappearance of the Silk Roads as trade shifted to the Mediterranean

(B) The exchange of agricultural products and practices from one region to another

(C) The emergence of new systems of slave labor based on plantation crops

(D) The emphasis on secularism in politics and education

(A) Jews, Christians, and Muslims all regarded it as the Holy Land.

(B) It was the only city in pre-Islamic Arabia that enjoyed a high degree of social equality.

(C) It was a crossroad for all the major ling-distance trade routes.

(D) It was the site of the Kaaba where pilgrims congregated.

(A) Conversion to Islam offered many financial and social benefits.

(B) Newly conquered subjects were forced to covert to Islam upon penalty of death.

(C) Those who refused to convert to Islam were enslaved.

(D) There was no religious tradition in the Middle East to compete with Islam.

(A) The decline of the cities led to a fall in the demand for food supplies and consequent drops in agricultural prices.

(B) Progressive desiccation of the region led to a diminution of the land available for agriculture.

(C) Spiraling taxation, the destruction of the irrigation works, and pillaging by mercenary armies led to destruction and abandonment of many villages.

(D) the government ordered regions of the empire populated by Shi'as abandoned.