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| This city was know for fine cloth called damask and for outstanding steel swords and armor. It was also the cultural center of Islamic learning. | Damascus |
| This city was the Umayyad capital. | Cordoba |
| This city was the Fatimad capital. | Cairo |
| This city was the Abbasid capital. Caliphal-Mansur chose this site for his capital on the west bank of the Tigres River. | Baghdad |
| Muslim society was made up of four classes. Name them. | 1) Upper class included those who were Muslims at birth. 2)Second class were converts to Islam that paid a higher tax than the upper class. 3) The third class included protected Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians. 4)The lowest-class was composed of slaves and non-Muslilm prisoners of war. This class of people frequently performed household work or fought in the military. |
| Describe life for women in the early days of Islam. | They could participate in public life and get an education. The Shari'a gave Muslim women specific rights concerning marriage, family, and property. The Qur'an provided for the care of widows and orphans, allowed divorce, and protected a women's inheritance. Their responsibilities varied with the income of their husbands. Women married to poor men worked in the fields. Women married to wealthy men supervised the household and its servants. Rich or poor, the women were given the responsibility of raising the children. |
| Why did the Muslims want to support the advancement of science from a practical standpoint? | The rulers wanted qualified physicians treating their ills. |
| What was the House of Wisdom? | A combination library, academy, and translation center in Baghdad. There scholars from different cultures worked side by side translating texts from Greece, India, Persia, and elsewhere into Arabic. |
| Who was al-Razi? | He was a Persian scholar who was the greatest physician of the Muslim world between AD 500 and 1500. |
| Who was al-Khwarizimi? | He wrote a textbook in the 800s explaining the idea of bringing together unknowns to match a known quantity. He called this technique al-jabr which today is called algebra. |
| Who was Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen)? | He was a brilliant mathematician who produced a book called Optics that revolutionized ideas about vision. His research about optics was used in developing lenses for telescopes and microscopes. |
| What is calligraphy? | art of beautiful handwriting. |
| Why did Islam forbid the depiction of living beings? | They believed that picturing living beings was idolatry because only Allah can create life. |
| What portrayed the greatest blending of the Muslim world? | architecture |
| What three Muslim empires emerged to reflect the blended nature of the culture at this time? | the Ottoman, the Safavid, and the Mughal. |
| When would the knowledge developed and preserved by the Muslim scholars be tapped by European scholars? | Renaissance in the 14th century. |
