1) When did Muhammad die? a) 632 b) 634 2) What happened by the time Muhammad died? a) His message has spread and his power has grown b) Islam was conquered 3) What happened after Muhammad's death? a) Many Islamic tribes that Muhammad had converted fell apart b) Islam collapsed 4) Who united the Arabian peninsula under Islam? a) Abu Akbar b) Muhammad 5) Who expanded the empire to include Egypt,Iran,and parts of Turkey? a) Caliph Umar b) Abu akbar 6) What did Muslim scholars do under the reign of early caliphs? a) Muslim scholars complied the teachings of Muhammad into a single work known as the Quran in Ababic b) Write the sunnah 7) What the Quran contribute to? a) The quran contributed to the sense of common identity which developed in the begining among Arabs and later in other other cultures  b) equality 8) Who was a rightly guided caliph? a) Ali,Muhammads's cousin b) Abu Akbar 9) What do some Muslims believe about Ali? a) Some muslims believe that Ali should have been the first heir to Muhammad's religous and political power b) That he was great 10) What did the conflict of Ali's and Muhammad's power lead to? a) The split of Islam into the Sunni and Shia branches b) Destruction 11) What caused Islam to spread? a) The Aarb people's sense of unity b) it's power 12) What did the expansion of the early Islamic empire lead to? a) Internal tensions over political leadership b) Nothing 13) What did the tensions of political leadership cause? a) They laid the foundation of the split between Sunni and Shia branches of Islam which still continues to the present day b) droughts 14) What did Muslims work out with Christians and Jews during the first 500 years of Islamic expansion? a) A fairly peaceful relationship b) Conflict 15) What did the fairly peaceful relationship do? a) It avoided religion based conflict between Islamic rulers and the non muslims they ruled  b) gave Islamic people lots of wealth 16) Why are Jews,Christians, and Muslims known as the people of the book? a) They all follow many of the same prophets and share many of the beliefs. b) Because they all are monotheitic 17) What did the constitution of Medina spell out? a) The rights and responsibilities that Jews and Christians had in the Ummah b) The alpahbet 18) What did becoming dhimmis mean? a) It meant that Jews and Christians were able to maintain their traditions and culture by paying special taxes  b) It meant Jews and Christians are supposed to fast 19) What were non Muslims considered as? a) They were considered as not equal b) They were considered equal 20) What happened to the non muslims? a) They were not terrorized or persecuted the way groups of non -Christians were in europe b) They were terrorized 21) What were two different processes? a) The expansion of Islam and the expansion of Muslim rule through Asia and Africa b) Muslim rules through Asia and Africa 22) What did Muslim armies do? a) Muslim armies made countless conquests,first under the Arabs and later under other cultures such as persians , the Berbers, and the Turks b) eat and rest 23) Why did Islam expansion take a while? a) Because it was rarely forced on people, conversion became a practical decision made by people who lived under Muslim rule for generations.  b) Because it gave the people fewer options 24) What did Muhammad realize while he was dying? a) Muhammad had realized that his failture to name a successor would create discord in his community of believers b) Nothing 25) What are muslims who believe in Ali as the heir to Muhammad's religous and political power called? a) Shia b) Sunni 26) What kind of Muslims make up the majority of the world today? a) Sunni muslims b) shia muslims 27) What set off the first civil war in Islam? a) Ali's rise to Caliph b) Muhammad's death 28) What does the Quran forbid? a) forcible conversion to Islam  b) being non muslim 29) What was a reason of why people converted to Islam? a) The success of Muslim armies b) The wealth 30) What was an example of seclusion of women in Islam? a) the rule of women wearing concealing clothing b) Not being able to go to college 31) What was the price of leaving Islam once converted? a) Death b) Jail 32) What is suffism? a) The mystical part of Islam that focouses on rituals and spiritual truths b) Seclusion of Women 33) What in Africa helped spread Islam? a) Traders and conquests b) Suffism 34) Who would become muslim first? a) Chiefs and kings b) Common people 35) Why had Islamic armies conquered Jerusalem? a) To protect their holy land and the people on pilgrimage b) Because they wanted to expand their empire 36) What are crusades? a) Violent series of Christian campaings against Muslims b) Cures 37) Why were Jews and east orthodox Christians killed? a) Because they were believed to be heretics by the member of the western church b) Because they were considered non holy 38) What had Islam's violence become in time? a) An element that the diverse populations under muslim reign had in common b) Peace 39) How many crusades were there? a) 9 crusades b) 10 crusades 40) Which person was the key figure at the start of Islam? a) Muhammad b) Abraham 41) What is the Muslim holy book known as? a) The bible b) The quran c) The torah 42) What are the two main branches of Islam? a) Christians and muslims b) Sunni and shi'a 43) Jews and Christians were allowed to practice their faith as long as they .... a) paid a tribute to that helped finance the Arab leaders and their government b) Followed Islam 44) Which two cities in Saudi Arabia were key in the life of Muhammad? a) Mecca and Medina b) Plaestine and Jerusalem 45) What is a caliph? a) A pharaoh b) A political and religious leader 46) Why did Caliph Uthman destroy every version of the quran except one? a) To keep the faith structured in a uniform way throughout the Islamic world b) Nothing 47) What is known as the holy building for muslims? a) Mosque b) Church c) Synagagog 48) Muslims are expected to face Mecca and do what five times a day? a) Pray b) Eat 49) The crusades had which two groups go against each other? a) Christians and Muslims b) Jews and christians 50) The crusades were a battle for control of which city? a) Mecca b) Jerusalem c) Medina 51) Which angel brought god's revelations to Muhammad? a) Gabriel b) mary 52) Why did Muslims not force people to convert to Islam? a) Because it was too painful b) Because it was too much work c) Because they realized that one's heart cannot be forced to follow a faith and because the government needed the tributes which were paid by jews and christians who were allowed to practice their faith   53) While Islam started in Arabia,today only what percent of muslims are arab? a) 15% b) 30% c) 45% 54) What is the world's current fastest growing monotheistic religion? a) Islam b) Christianity c) Judaism 55) Islam was spread by Muslim armies and also by who else? a) Christians b) Traders 56) Allah is the arabic word for what? a) God b) Good c) Gold 57) Which beliefs are shared by jews,christians, and muslims? a) Belief in one true god,the angel gabriel,Abraham as the father of monotheism, and the importance of prophets b) They do not share any beliefs 58) Like many of the earlier followers of Jesus,many of the first Muslims were who? a) Poor people who struggled under the boot of oppression and who yearned for a better life b) Christians c) Jews

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