HIWD 341 Quiz 1,2,3

HIWD 341 Quiz 1 Introduction to Islam

Covers the Learn material from Module 1: Week 1.

1. The Egyptian President forced out by the army after the March 2011 Arab uprisings was:
2. The Parameters of this course run from ________ to _________:
3. In Muhammad’s mi’raj (ascent into heaven), he reportedly saw and climbed a ladder reaching up into heaven. This story is similar and may have been based on the experiences of which early Hebrew leader?
4. The Islamic faith is stuck doing what two things?
5. The three events that took place at the dawn of the early modern era and redefined the Modern Middle East were:
6. The Gunpowder Empires helped Islam climb out of the ____________
7. The Middle East in Late Antiquity was dominated by which two empires?
8. The major or primary message of the Quran may best be summarized as:
9. What two characteristics distinguish modern history?
10. The Mongol invasions, through the subsequent ____________, expose the Middle East to Far Eastern cultures and motifs like never before.
11. Gelvin sees the Islamic Modern Era to encompass what era?
12. The sira, or biography of Muhammad, was written by:
13. The ancient empires are characterized as what?
14. Which pillar of Islam is obligatory only if one has the ability to do it?
15. Iraq was the wealthiest province in what ancient empire?
16. Muslims regard Mohammad as:
17. Professor Samuel P. Huntington’s thesis that Islamic civilization is stuck in unchanging values found in the Quran is called:
18. Which invading group had arguably the most lasting impact on Islam and the Middle East?
19. All of the following areas were conquered early on by Islam EXCEPT:
20. Known as 1 AH, in what year does Islamic history and their calendar begin?

HIWD 341 Quiz 2 Gunpowder Empires

Covers the Learn material from Module 2: Week 2.

1. What are the three major and largest groups of Shi’ites?
2. Shari’a Law comes from the word Shari’a, meaning:
3. Devshirme were:
4. The word Qur’an means:
5. What does the Quran indicate is the status of women in terms of economic and legal standing?
6. A Gazi warrior is what kind of warrior?
7. While decline had begun in the eleventh century, the end of the Golden Age is generally agreed to be:
8. All the exemplary actions and behaviors of the Prophet, passed down by customs and traditions in Islam are known collectively as:
9. Who sacked Baghdad and killed hundreds of thousands and the last Abbasid Caliph in 1258?
10. Which Mughal (Mogul) Emperor used gunpowder effectively and remained undefeated in battle?
11. The highest form of Muslim art is:
12. Symbolic of European love for the Turks’ introduction of coffee into Europe, which composer wrote the “Coffee Cantata”?
13. In the Seventh century, the majority of the subjects of the new Arab Empire were:
14. The Safavid Empire called the imported slaves from the conquered Christian kingdoms of Georgia, Armenia and Circassia:
15. The Translation movement associated with the Golden Age was largely a continuation of work being done by:
16. Muslim tradition tells us that the Qur’an was first collected in written form by:
17. What were the names of the two Ottoman crack units that assisted them in creating their empire?
18. What European discovery bypassed the Ottoman and Safavid Empires and monopolized long-distance sea trade?
19. All of India was brought under the control of the Mughals (Moguls) by what year?
20. The Ottomans used gunpowder to devastating effect at what siege?

HIWD 341 Quiz 3 Rise of Europe

Covers the Learn material from Module 3: Week 3.

1. The traditional crack troops of the Ottomans, the Janissaries, were hunted down and eliminated in what 1826 event?
2. Tunisia’s great state-builder of the 19th Century was:
3. Ottoman Capitulations were:
4. When did construction on the Suez Canal begin?
5. The Ottoman Constitution, the first non-European constitution in the Eastern Hemisphere, was first established in ________ and restored in
6. Great Britain became the dominant European colonial power in India after which war?
7. How did the Ottomans view Protestants and their Reformation?
8. Lord Byron celebrated the cause of independence for what Balkan country?
9. TheTanzimat reforms in 19th century Ottoman Empire is an example of:
10. Who became the principle antagonist of the Ottomans in the 18th century?
11. The experience of Jawhariyyeh related in the book indicates that Ottoman Jerusalem in the 19th Century was:
12. What group led the charge for independence in Algeria in the mid-20th Century?
13. Who wrote the Book of Reform?
14. After the fall of the Safavid Empire, what to European countries fought for control of Persia in what became known as the “Great Game”?
15. Nationalism needs what three conditions present in order to become a movement?
16. Networks of like-minded people for reconstructing the morals of Islamic Law to deal with the modern world are known as:
17. Gelvin denes ___________ as the contemporary world economy and the world system of nation-states in which every functioning society has to operate.
18. As the original Rome lay in the hands of the pope and the 2nd Rome (Constantinople) had been conquered by the Ottomans, what city had become known as the 3rd Rome?
19. What new military corps adopted Western forms of drill and armaments and eventually replaced the Janissaries?
20. France used Algeria as a place to dump ____________ in the 19th century?