True or False

Education and learning were highly respected in the Byzantine Empire

the young, western emperor Odoacer overthrew

a word that means "the intentional destruction of property"

the art of public speaking

wrote about the fall of Rome and how it affected its people

Galen emphasized the importance of ___.

Theodosius left a will instructing the Romans to do what after his death?

What happened after the Battle of Adrianople?

Constantinople at first resembled cities in the Roman Empire because ___.

The Justinian Code has been the basis for what in many countries?

True or False

The geography of the Arabian Peninsula could best be described as high plateaus and grassy plains.

True or False

The Quran provides Muslims with guidelines on how to live and stresses the need to treat others fairly.

True or False

The Sufis were missionaries, or traveling preachers, who spread the teachings of Islam.

True or False

Eventually the term Arab came to mean only a resident of the Arabian Peninsula, not just a speaker of Arabic.

True or False

Even though farming was important, most Muslims lived in cities.

group that believed Umayyad caliphs should rule

desert herders who traveled from oasis to oasis in search of water

followers of Muhammad who believed his son-in-law should rule after Muhammad's death

caliphs who governed the Arab Empire from Damascus

the name given to the followers of Islam

How did the harsh desert climate affect the early Arabs who lived there?

Muslim tradition says that Muhammad began preaching ___.

Islam teaches that Christians and Jews ___.

In Muslim Spain, the Jewish community in Cordoba ___.

Merchants were well respected in Muslim culture because they___.

Arabic numbers that were passed on to the Europeans by Persian and Arab scholars were actually borrowed from which culture?