Starter quiz

  • The people who lived in Greece and the surrounding areas from around 800 BCE to 600 CE were known as the ...
    • Byzantines.
    • old-fashioned Greeks.
    • ancient Greeks.  ✓
    • Romans.
  • Match the word to its meaning.
    • caliph
      leader of a caliphate  ✓
    • mathematician
      a person who studies maths ✓
    • scholar
      someone who engages in academic study or research ✓
  • Match the word to its definition.
    • Al-Mansur
      founded the circular city of Baghdad ✓
    • Baghdad
      capital of the Abbasid Caliphate ✓
    • Abbasid Caliphate
      an Islamic empire which ruled from 750 CE to 1258 CE ✓
  • What does BCE mean on a timeline?
    • the period of history before the year 1  ✓
    • the period of history after the year 1
    • the period before we started recording history
    • future
  • What is meant by the 'Mediterranean world'?
    • a region consisting of countries surrounding the Arctic Ocean
    • a region consisting of countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea  ✓
    • a region consisting of countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean
    • a region consisting of countries surrounding the Indian Ocean
  • The main religion of the Abbasids in Baghdad was ...
    • Buddhism
    • Judaism
    • Christianity
    • Islam  ✓
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