Assessment: Muslim Innovations and Adaptations

Which is the best example of cultural diffusion?

• Muslim architects built mosques with minarets.

• Muslims face toward Mecca when they pray.

• Muslim cities along major trade routes grew wealthy.

• Muslims spread the Chinese craft of paper making to Europe.

Which religious activity makes most use of the minbar?

• washing feet

• giving a sermon

• giving to charity

• praying in a group

How did Muslims contribute to European knowledge of Plato and Aristotle?

• They preserved and translated Greek texts.

• They taught in universities in Europe.

• They met with Catholics to discuss philosophy.

• They painted beautiful pictures of ancient philosophers.

Which phrase best explains the importance of Baghdad?

• birthplace of Muhammad

• main center of new inventions

• most glorious Muslim city

• blend of Spanish and Arab culture

What aspect of Islamic belief does this quotation encourage? "Have they not looked at the camel--how it was created?"

• curiosity about nature

• tolerance of other faiths

• technological innovation

• trade with faraway places

Medieval Muslims adapted and improved the astrolabe to use for

• defense

• printing

• irrigation

• navigation

What was the purpose of the machine in the picture below?

• to shoot at invading armies

• to call believers to worship

• to raise water into aqueducts

• to guide boats down the river

I am important in mathematics. I came to Muslim lands from India. My name comes from an Arabic word. What am I?

• zero

• number

• division

• calculus

Why are 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 called Arabic numerals?

• because they are odd numbers

• because they cannot be divided

• because they are all prime numbers

• because of how they are written

Who could get treatment in medieval Muslim hospitals?

• anyone

• only the wealthy

• nobody but pilgrims

• poor workers