| a. Abu Bakr | ||
| b. Khadija | ||
| c. Muhammad | ||
| d. Ali |
| a. political and religious institutions merge | ||
| b. doctrinal disputes settled by a supreme leader, later referred to as the imam | ||
| c. all conflict resolved by diplomacy and debate, never war | ||
| d. discouraged contact with nonbelievers due to fears of spiritual contamination |
| a. monotheism | ||
| b. atheism | ||
| c. polytheism | ||
| d. agnosticism |
| a. The Ka'ba had been a sacred site of pilgrimage for generation. | ||
| b. Two of Jesus's Apostles founded a church there during their travels. | ||
| c. It was believed to be the birthplace of Abraham | ||
| d. Zarathustra had retired to Mecca and died there. |
| a. The Torah | ||
| b. The Bible | ||
| c. The Qur'an | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Byzantine and Sasanid exhaustion from war | ||
| b. Muslims' skill in horsemanship and warfare | ||
| c. Warships provided by the Nestorian Christians to use against Orthodox Christians | ||
| d. Groups treated harshly by the Byzantines and Sasanids welcomed Arab rule |
| a. were monogamous in marriage | ||
| b. settled in oases and rarely left the area of their birth | ||
| c. valued poetry and storytelling | ||
| d. were also usually literate and valued education |
| a. Determining the final form of Qur'an | ||
| b. Recording the miracles of Muhammad | ||
| c. Making calligraphy an art form | ||
| d. Writing love poetry for the caliphs |
| a. Declaring that Allah is the only God and Muhammad is his prophet | ||
| b. Fasting during daylight hours during the month of Ramadan | ||
| c. Contributing to zakat or a tax for alms to help the poor | ||
| d. Worshipping religious leaders or imams |
| a. Because Muhammad recited the words given to him by the angel Gabriel | ||
| b. Because Muhammad recited the text to his brother, who recorded it | ||
| c. Because women were allowed to recite the words but prohibited from learning to read them | ||
| d. Because the text was compiled from the dreams in which Muhammad heard the suras recited aloud |
| a. As the true God who had been rejected by the Jews and the Christians | ||
| b. As the same God worshipped by Jews and Christians | ||
| c. As the author of the Qur'an | ||
| d. As the exclusive god of the Arabs |
| a. Baghdad | ||
| b. Cairo | ||
| c. Tripoli | ||
| d. Medina |
| a. Lombardy (France) | ||
| b. Great Britain | ||
| c. Egypt | ||
| d. Spain |
| a. Shi'ites | ||
| b. Sufis | ||
| c. Sunnis | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Alliances with Christian powers in order to fend off the caliphate interference | ||
| b. The Muslim lack of interest in politics to allow them to ignore the caliphate | ||
| c. Armies of Turkish mercenaries, known as Mamluks, to support themselves militarily | ||
| d. Armies of Christian mercenaries loyal only to receiving regular pay, not the caliphs |
| a. The Abbasid's reneged on their promise to appoint Shi'ites to top government positions, so the Shi'ites instigated civil war. | ||
| b. The Abbasid's embarked on a disastrous campaign to retake northern Africa. | ||
| c. A Sunni imam raised questions about the legitimacy of Harun's claims to the caliphate. | ||
| d. The huge Abbasid army and complex civil services laced an adequate tax base. |
| a. After years of war, both were strong enough to prevent the spread of Islam. | ||
| b. After years of war, both were weakened and unable to prevent the spread of Islam. | ||
| c. After years of war, one empire was strengthened and one empire was weakened, which prohibited the spread of Islam. | ||
| d. The war had no effect on either empire. |
| a. They all spoke the same language, Arabic, because the Qur'an was not translated. | ||
| b. The Muslims invented airplane travel in 1270, cutting short the commuting time between Spain and Eurasia. | ||
| c. All Muslim countries used a common currency, the zakat, which facilitated trade. | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Toleration, though each group paid a special tax | ||
| b. Banishment from Umayyad lands | ||
| c. A choice between conversion and death | ||
| d. Death of the males and enslavement of the females |
| a. total religious freedom, adherents of all religion | ||
| b. pensions, Muslim veterans | ||
| c. hall passes, subjects who needed to use the bathroom | ||
| d. pensions, those who would practice Islam |
| a. madrasahs | ||
| b. ulamas | ||
| c. taifas | ||
| d. al-jabrs |
| a. zakat | ||
| b. Haj | ||
| c. Dhimmi | ||
| d. Qur'an |
| a. Avicenna | ||
| b. Averroes | ||
| c. Muhammad | ||
| d. Abd al-Rahman |
| a. men | ||
| b. Muslims | ||
| c. Arabs | ||
| d. Berbers |
| a. Two | ||
| b. Three | ||
| c. Four | ||
| d. Five |
| a. Zakat | ||
| b. Jihad | ||
| c. Infidels | ||
| d. Mozarabs |
| a. Because scribes used a special shorthand that enabled them to write faster | ||
| b. Because apprentice scribes produced more texts | ||
| c. Because paper was used, which lowered the price of texts | ||
| d. Because universal literacy was a core goal of Islamic regimes |
| a. Abd al-Rahman, an Unayyad, fled during the Abbasid revolution to Morocco, gathered an army, and seized southern Spain after one battled. | ||
| b. Abd al-Rahman took the Abbasid revolution to Morocco and then launched a five-year campaign against southern Spain. | ||
| c. Muslim advisors to the Spanish king overthrew him and took control of southern Spain. | ||
| d. The new Abbasid caliph sent Abd al-Rahman to establish an emirate in Spain, where he encountered little resistance in the sparsely populated region. |
| a. Umayyads, Taifas, Almohads, Nasrid, Almoravid | ||
| b. Umayyad, Taifas, Aloravids, Almohads, Nasrids | ||
| c. Nasrid, Almohads, Almoravids, Taifas, Umayyads | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. France | ||
| b. England | ||
| c. Russia | ||
| d. Spain |
| a. zakat | ||
| b. jihad | ||
| c. al-Andalus | ||
| d. Reconquista |
| a. jihad | ||
| b. pogroms | ||
| c. the Holocaust | ||
| d. zakat |
| a. Knights Templar | ||
| b. Benedictines | ||
| c. Albigensians | ||
| d. Mohammadans |
| a. They consisted of Jews and Christians who sought to free the Holy Land from Islamic control. | ||
| b. They were led into battle by the pope himself. | ||
| c. They suffered greatly from the cold and malnutrition on their trek across Russia. | ||
| d. They were organized as separate militias, each commanded by a different general. |
| a. An unprecedented, systematic persecution of Jews | ||
| b. Movement to restrict women's mobility by accusing female crusaders of witchcraft | ||
| c. Expansion of rural poverty as crusaders increased taxes to finance their journeys | ||
| d. An increase in lawlessness and piracy on the Mediterranean Sea |
| a. Women accompanied the crusaders to the Holy Land | ||
| b. Crusaders tried to convert captured Muslims with discussion. | ||
| c. Crusaders massacred Muslims. | ||
| d. Many crusaders joined the armies for land and plunder. |
| a. Byzantine emperor Alexius I launched a campaign against the Turks in 1095 to reclaim Jerusalem. | ||
| b. Following the Council of Worms (1095), the Franks launched a campaign to free the Holy Lands from the "infidels." | ||
| c. The pope issued a call to arms to free the Holy Land. | ||
| d. Muslim Seljuk Turks captured Jersualem in 1095, and the city's Christian inhabitants appealed to their European brethren for help. |
| a. They inspired expeditions such as Columbus' in 1492. | ||
| b. They inspired pogroms against European Jews. | ||
| c. They created the rift between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. | ||
| d. They were related to the reconquista of Spain. |
| a. were all ruled by the Templars | ||
| b. were a first step toward what later became imperialism | ||
| c. all fell to Saladin in the Second Crusade | ||
| d. were called, collectively, Levantia |
| a. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine | ||
| b. British, French, and American | ||
| c. Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal | ||
| d. Spanish, American, and German |
| a. the Bulge | ||
| b. the Seine | ||
| c. Parwan | ||
| d. Mecca |
| a. Syria | ||
| b. Egypt | ||
| c. Morocco | ||
| d. Spain |
| a. The Muslims | ||
| b. The Mongols | ||
| c. Both sides equally | ||
| d. Neither side |
| a. 1258 | ||
| b. 1275 | ||
| c. 1301 | ||
| d. 1326 |
| a. 1200 | ||
| b. 1227 | ||
| c. 130 | ||
| d. 1326 |
| a. It ceased to exist. | ||
| b. It was divided into two parts for each of his sons. | ||
| c. It was conquered by the Safavids. | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Hurrem/Roxelana | ||
| b. Khadija | ||
| c. Sophie/Francine | ||
| d. Lady Sybilla |
| a. Sunni | ||
| b. Shi'ite | ||
| c. Sufi | ||
| d. Christian |
| a. Sunni | ||
| b. Shi'ite | ||
| c. Sufi | ||
| d. Christian |
| a. Suleiman | ||
| b. Mehmed | ||
| c. Saladin | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Suleiman the Magnificent | ||
| b. Muhammad the Prophet | ||
| c. Selim II | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Finland | ||
| b. England | ||
| c. France | ||
| d. Russia |
| a. bad rulers | ||
| b. failed reforms | ||
| c. democratic expansion | ||
| d. great success |
| a. 1798 | ||
| b. 1804 | ||
| c. 1851 | ||
| d. 1776 |
| a. The First Constitutional Empire | ||
| b. The Second Constitutional Empire | ||
| c. The Third Constitutional Empire | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. 1798 | ||
| b. 1848 | ||
| c. 1908 | ||
| d. 1914 |
| a. The dominant currency | ||
| b. The dominant export | ||
| c. Sultan Ahmed III's love of the flower | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. "Hot Young Thing of Europe" | ||
| b. "Sick Old Man of Europe" | ||
| c. "Little Germany" | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. France, Russia, and Great Britain | ||
| b. Spain, France, and Germany | ||
| c. Japan, Russia, and the United States | ||
| d. The United States, Mexico, and Canada |
| a. British | ||
| b. French | ||
| c. American | ||
| d. Russian |
| a. Gibraltar | ||
| b. Gallipoli | ||
| c. Damascus | ||
| d. Palestine |
| a. the fez | ||
| b. pants | ||
| c. the hijab | ||
| d. burka |
| a. victory | ||
| b. defeat | ||
| c. draw | ||
| d. success |
| a. Great Britain, France | ||
| b. Great Britain, Russia | ||
| c. France, Russia | ||
| d. U.S., Russia |
| a. Saudi Arabia | ||
| b. The Emirate of Transjordan | ||
| c. Kuwait | ||
| d. Egypt |
| a. Syria | ||
| b. Transjordan | ||
| c. Turkey | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Baghdad | ||
| b. Damascus | ||
| c. Syria | ||
| d. Jerusalem |
| a. Creating a quasi-Communist state that limited private ownership of property | ||
| b. Developing an Islamic state that enforced traditional laws about all aspects of society | ||
| c. Barring foreign banks and investments to make Turkey independent of outsiders | ||
| d. Modernizing Turkish society by adopting elements of Western economics and culture |
| a. The French Revolution | ||
| b. American Civil War | ||
| c. World War I | ||
| d. American Revolution |
| a. The Ottoman victory over the Allies | ||
| b. The Ottoman victory over the Central Powers | ||
| c. The British victory over the Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman Empire's subsequent collapse | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Russia | ||
| b. Great Britain | ||
| c. France | ||
| d. Germany |
| a. The central powers | ||
| b. The allies | ||
| c. Both A and B | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Mohandas Gandhi | ||
| b. Mustafa Kemal (or Ataturk) | ||
| c. Jawaharlal Nehru | ||
| d. Anwar al-Sadat |
| a. Arthur James Balfour | ||
| b. Theodor Herzl | ||
| c. Sir Mark Sykes | ||
| d. Francois Georges-Picot |
| a. Theodor Herzl | ||
| b. Kemal Ataturk | ||
| c. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Egypt | ||
| b. Syria | ||
| c. Palestine | ||
| d. The Ottoman Empire |
| a. Iraq | ||
| b. Iran | ||
| c. Syria | ||
| d. Canada |
| a. World War II | ||
| b. The Cuban Missile Crisis | ||
| c. The Cold War | ||
| d. The 1953 coup in Iran |
| a. Exploitation of oil resources | ||
| b. Shared values | ||
| c. Fear of Chinese power | ||
| d. Fear of British power |
| a. Gold | ||
| b. Sand | ||
| c. Oil | ||
| d. Coal |
| a. Saudi | ||
| b. Egyptian | ||
| c. French | ||
| d. German |
| a. Abdul Azziz | ||
| b. Mohammad Reza Palavi | ||
| c. Mohammad Mossadegh | ||
| d. Mustafa Kemal (or Ataturk) |
| a. Good Neighbor Policy | ||
| b. Lend/Lease Act | ||
| c. Eisenhower Doctrine | ||
| d. Nixon Doctrine |
| a. Syria | ||
| b. Saudi Arabia | ||
| c. Egypt | ||
| d. The United States |
| a. the War of Independence | ||
| b. the last "Good War" | ||
| c. the War to End all Wars | ||
| d. the Wars of the Roses |
| a. employment | ||
| b. positive neutrality | ||
| c. open warfare | ||
| d. public education |
| a. Iraq | ||
| b. Iran | ||
| c. Syria | ||
| d. Egypt |
| a. Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||
| b. Gamal Abdel Nasser | ||
| c. Sadam Hussein | ||
| d. Adolf Hitler |
| a. Closed the Gulf of Aqaba to shipping | ||
| b. Occupied Sinai | ||
| c. Bought weapons from the Soviet Union | ||
| d. Bought weapons from the United States |
| a. The emergence of a movement that claimed all of the West Bank as part of Israel | ||
| b. Israeli occupation of the West Bank | ||
| c. Israeli occupation of the Sinai | ||
| d. All of the above |
| a. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima | ||
| b. The Lebanon Crisis of 1957 | ||
| c. The Cuban Missile Crisis | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Great Britain | ||
| b. France | ||
| c. Canada | ||
| d. The Unites States |
| a. Exodus | ||
| b. The Shoah | ||
| c. The Intifada | ||
| d. None of the above |
| a. Shi'a | ||
| b. Sufi | ||
| c. Sunni | ||
| d. Turkish |
| a. Saudi | ||
| b. Iraqi | ||
| c. American | ||
| d. Israeli |
| a. Sunni | ||
| b. Shi'a | ||
| c. Sufi | ||
| d. Atheist |
| a. The White House; The World Trade Center | ||
| b. The World Trade Center, The Pentagon | ||
| c. The Lincoln Memorial; the National Archives | ||
| d. Independence Hall; the National Constitution Center |
| a. 222 days | ||
| b. 333 days | ||
| c. 444 days | ||
| d. 555 days |
| a. The base | ||
| b. The struggle | ||
| c. The uprising | ||
| d. The future |
| a. Yasser Arafat | ||
| b. Yitzhak Rabin | ||
| c. Ehud Barak | ||
| d. Shimon Peres |
| a. Yasser Arafat | ||
| b. Yitzhak Rabin | ||
| c. Ehud Barak | ||
| d. Shimon Peres |
| a. Iraq | ||
| b. Iran | ||
| c. Egypt | ||
| d. The United States |