Animated History with Pipo - Islam part 2Online version
Animated History with Pipo - Islam part 2
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What was a caliph in the Muslim community after Muhammad’s death in 632 CE?
2
How far had the Umayyad Caliphate expanded by the early eighth century?
3
What is the difference between the expansion of Muslim rule and the spread of Islam as a religion?
4
What roles did emirs and sultans commonly hold?
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How were the Abbasid rulers related to Muhammad?
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The Umayyads had ruled from Damascus. Which city did the Abbasids establish as their new capital in 762 CE?
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How did centres of learning in the medieval Islamic world advance knowledge?
8
Islamic artists used several kinds of decoration. What is an arabesque?
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Which statement accurately describes the depiction of people in Islamic art?
10
Where did the decimal place-value system underlying our Hindu-Arabic numerals develop, and how did it spread?
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Earlier civilisations already solved mathematical problems involving unknown quantities. What was al-Khwarizmi’s major contribution to algebra?
12
What are the cultural origins of the collection A Thousand and One Nights?
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In the fictional story surrounding the collection, how did Scheherazade use storytelling to stay alive?
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Why is it misleading to describe the medieval Muslim world as one empire throughout its history?
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What happened to Baghdad in 1258 CE?
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What happened on the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 CE?
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What does Islam require concerning the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca?
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