AP World Unit 4: Dar al Islam

Dar al Islam

House of Islam

Weak

By 1200, Abbasid caliphate was..

knowledge through trade and conquest

In 1200-1450, Islamic sultanates were responsible for founding and spreading

Jews, Christians, and Muslims

Who were the people of the book?

Shariah

Islamic law is called the…

Caliph

The political and religious successor for Muhammad is called a

A caliph

Who ruled a Caliphate?

Caliphs should be relatives of Muhammad

What do Shia Muslims believe? (about caliphs)

Successors should be members of community, but not always related to Muhammad

What do Sunni Muslims believe? (about successors)

Spain

The Umayyad caliphate conquered what country?

it was still under Arab control

When the Umayyad caliphate collapsed…

Exchange knowledge

Islamic Spain, known as al-Andalus, was where Islamic, Christian, and Jewish scholars could do what?

Cordoba Spain

The main city of Spain

Spread knowledge

Had a university of study

Yes

Under the Abbasid Caliphate, did it extend more rights for Muslim converts? (Yes or no)

Baghdad

What was the capital of Abbasid?

Damascus

What was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate?

Government of Abbasid Caliphate

The caliph becomes a puppet ruler, controlled by the vizier/ chief office minister (gov’t related)

Rule the region but leave the caliph in his position

Once the caliph is weakened, other groups can

House of Wisdom

Baghdad becomes one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities and holds the…

Lost works

Books into Arabic

Muslim scholars sought out knowledge and recovered…

And translated…

-Transmitted Arabic numerals to Europe
-Shared science and literature with Europe
-Merchants spread printing and gunpowder

How did Muslims spread knowledge throughout Europe, North Africa, and Asia

The father of trigonometry

Who is Nasir al din al tusi?

Female sufii poet/writer

Who is Aishah al-Ba'uniyyah?

Economics of abbasid caliphate

Lots of trading with India, Southeast Asia, and East Asia
Created new banking with letters of credit and double-entry bookkeeping

Improves

QU'ran does what to the status of women? (makes worse or improves?)

Permitted

Was polygamy permitted in the Quran or not?

4

Men could have up to how many wives?

Limited power

The caliph had how much power?

Abbasid Caliphate

The caliphate fragmented in the…

-Hard to control
-Caliph’s puppet ruled
-Military weren’t loyal

What weakened the Abbasid caliphate?

Yes

Did problems with succession weaken the Abbasid caliphate?

Yes

Did the new sects of Islam emerging (sufis) weaken the Abbasid caliphate?

Yes

Was the Abbasid caliphate destroyed by the Mongols?

Golden age of Islam

Legacy of Abbasid rule had what age/ period in history?

Go-between

Abbasids served as a what for eastern civilizations through trade (silk road, indian ocean, maritime trade, trans saharan)

Abbasid empire

The Seljuk Turks conquered what?

Title of sultan

Who held the real power to the Seljuk Turks?

Mongol invasion

Seljuk ruled abbasid empire until what? (1258)

Slave soldiers

Mamluk refers to…

Mamluks

Who stopped the Mongol spread?

Muslim rule in north India

What was the Delhi Sultanate?

Crusades

European Christians came to middle east and discovered the Islamic advances during the… (military expeditions)

Islam

What did Arab merchants bring to India? (religion)

Sufi mystics

Arab merchants were mainly __________ who brought the religion to India and beyond

Buddhists/ lower Hindu castes

Converts were mostly…

Innovation

Although dar-al Islam was politically fractured the Islamic world, it remains the center of… (in period 1)

Islamic world

North Africa is dominated by the…

Egypt

Mamluks are in what country?

Below the Saharan desert

Sub Saharan means what part of Africa?

The Mediterranean

Northern Africa was connected to…

Indian Ocean

East coast of Africa was connected to what trade network?

Camels, ships, technology, and navigation

What opened up sub Saharan Africa?

Slaves, gold, salt, ivory, animal skins

What were the trade goods of Africa?

Slave trading

The expansion of Saharan and Indian trade networks greatly increased what?

Arrival of Islam in Africa

-Arrives in northern Africa through conquest
-Western and eastern Africa through trade
-The king was Muslim, but his people were often still practicing onimism

Africa

Oral histories were popular where?

Wrote about Africa

What did Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Battuta do?

Ibn Khaldun

Who noticed the cycles of society?

Ibn Battuta

Who traveled for over 24 years throughout Africa and India?

Mali and Hausa

What were the two main west African civilizations?

Sundiata Kieta

The empire of Mali was founded by who? (lion prince)

Taxed

The empire of Mali controlled and ____ all trans Saharan trade passing through west Africa

Grand-nephew of Sundiata

Who was Mansa Musa?

Mansa Musca religion

-Devoted follower of Islam
-Built mosques, established religious schools

Hausa Kingdom

-Collection of 7 city states in northern Nigeria
-Never unified but cooperated closely

True

True or false: the Hausa kingdoms had a common language, law and customs

True

True or false: the Hausa kingdom was Islamic

True

True or false: Hausa languages are still the most commonly spoken language in west africa

Yes

Was Ethiopia a monarchy?

axum empire-Christian Empire in east africa

Ethiopia had traced roots to the..

carved our of rock

Christian churches in Ethiopia…

Swahili coast

what connects africa to indian ocean trade

european interest in indian ocean trade led to colonization

what led to a decline in african civilizations along the coast

Swahili

Bantu Migratitions-->

Same

Migrations of bantu speaking people spread the ______ language base throughout Sub Saharan Africa

Same or different?

Swahili

one bantu language is

gold, ivory, slavrs, and local products

(Zimabwe and indian ocean trade) Kings controlled and taxed the trade between the coast and internal empires that they sell

Great zimbabwe

the stone house was in

16 foot high walls built without mortar or concrete.

What were Zimbabwe’s stone houses?

Astrolabe

an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements

Compass

navigational instrument for finding directions

Caravanserai

inn or rest station for caravans

berbers of north west africa

used camel caravan to navigate trans saharan trade routes

The berbers controlled what

trans saharan salt trade for centuries, as well as bult caravanserai

Timbuktu

Trading capital in Mali