History - Y 10 Social Studies Revision

Who is this?

• Vasco da Gama

• Ahmed ibn Majid

• Marco Polo

• Wilfred Thesiger

Who is Wilfred Thesiger?

• an indian explorer

• a british explorer and writer who travelled across empty quarter in 1946

• a desert dweller

• a arab explorer who made maps

What is The Empty Quarter?

• A desert

• A castle

• A port

• A trading center

The name of Wilfred Thesiger's book is...

In which century did the Golden Age of Islam begin?

• 6th Century

• 7th Century

• 8th Century

• 9th Century

The Caliph's palace was in which city?

• Baghdad

• Jeddah

• Dubai

• Damascus

Which river does Baghdad lie on...

• Shams

• Tigris

• Euphrates

• Jordan

The House of Wisdom which was a combination of a library and university opened in which city?

• Baghdad

• Jerusalem

• Mecca

• Cordova

In what areas of study did Muslim Scholars make advances during the Golden Age?

• Astronomy

• Geography

• Math

• Philosophy

• All of the Above

The Muslim scholar al-Jabr worked to find the unknown variable in which type of Mathematics?

• Subtraction

• Addition

• Calculus

• Algebra