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HIST351 Final Exam - Islam, The Middle East, and The West
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HIST351 Final Exam - Islam, The Middle East, and The West
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1. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the First Crusade?
2. What impact did war between the Sassanid and Byzantine empires have on their respective later experiences with Arab Muslims?
3. In what year did the French invade Egypt?
4. Fill in the blank. The Safavids were primarily a ______________ dynasty.
5. Fill in the blanks.The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 was a secret agreement between the governments of _____________ and _____________ that defined respective spheres of influence in the post-World War I Middle East.
6. Who captured Constantinople in 1453?
7. Fill in the blank. The crusader states that existed for about two hundred years along the Mediterranean coast ________________.
8. In the tenth century, Muslim rulers became independent of the caliph, relying instead on which of the following?
9. In what year did the Chagtai Khanate officially become a Muslim State?
10. What was the most important outcome of World War I for the Middle East?
11. Fill in the blank. During World War I, the British attacked the Ottoman Empire at ______________.
12. Fill in the blank. Most Israelis refer to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as ________________.
13. Fill in the blank. The majority of the soldiers in the army that conquered Spain in 711 were NOT _____________.
14. In the showdown between the Mongols and the Abbasids, the region's Christians general favored which side?
15. What was the order of monks that was organized to protect pilgrimage routes to the Holy Land called?
16. Of the following people, who was most closely associated with Arab nationalism?
17. In 1921, the eastern half of Palestine became an autonomous political entity called which of the following?
18. Fill in the blank. The supporters of Ali for succession to the caliphate split from mainstream Islam during the Umayyad dynasty became known as _________________.
19. Fill in the blank. In 1925, Kemal Ataturk forbade the inhabitants of Turkey from wearing ______________.
20. The Islamic Renaissance made learning available to social classes beyond aristocrats for which of the following reasons?
21. Who was the intellectual father of the modern Zionist movement?
22. Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks.In 929, the government of Cordoba granted _________________ to _________________.
23. The modern boundaries of the Middle East came into existence in the aftermath of which war?
24. During the seventh and eighth centuries, which of the following was NOT performed by Muslim scholars?
25. According to journalist Stephen Kinzer, 'It was the first time the United States overthrew a foreign government.It set a pattern for years to come and shaped the way millions of people view the United States.'What is the 'it' to which he refers?