The Arab Caliphate
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
On a map name the countries the Arabs took and show separately the conquests under the first three caliphs.
Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Libya and Iran.
2
Write a table of the three taxes in the caliphate and who paid them.
Kharaj — landholders; jizya — non-Muslims; zakat — Muslims who owned property such as herds and trade goods.
3
List the places of uprisings against the Arabs and explain the causes.
Kufa, Merv, Sogdiana, Azerbaijan; heavy taxes, inequality and the wish to restore local rule.
4
Write a chronology of the caliphate: 632, 661, 711, 732, 750, 756, 1258.
Muhammad’s death; the Umayyads; conquest of Spain; Poitiers; the Abbasids; Emirate of Córdoba; fall of Baghdad.