Early Islamic Empires

In the 600s, Islam spread to the north because empires there were ____.

• strong

• weak

• already Islamic

Another word for Caliph is _____.

• warrior

• prophet

• teacher

• Islamic religious leader

The Umayyad caliphate, or empire, took over land from Spain to _____.

• Mecca

• Cairo

• the Red Sea

• India

The Umayyad empire failed because ____.

• communication over such a large distance was difficult

• communication in Arabic was so difficult

• stronger empires defeated it

• the rulers ran out of new land to take over

The new capital of the Abbasid empire was Baghdad, and it was shaped like a ____.

• donut

• square

• circle

• triangle

Under the Abbasids, Muslims ____. (check all that are true)

• discovered how disease spreads

• created the world's first hospital

• correctly estimated the size of the earth

• developed rockets that could reach the moon

This picture is an example of ____.

• a Muslim child's handwriting

• Abbasid calligraphy

• an Islamic street sign 

• Chinese calligraphy

The House of Wisdom brought together scholars during the _____ empire.

• Umayyad

• Abbasid

• Ottoman

• Manchu

The Abbasids ended when _______ destroyed the city of Baghdad.

• Mongols

• Umayyads

• Huns

• Germans

True or False: The Umayyad Empire included lands in Europe (Spain).

• True

• False