1. On an outline map indicate the Arabian Empire at its widest extent. Locate the more important cities, including Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Damascus, Bagdad, Cairo, Alexandria, Granada, Cordova, and Seville.
2. Define the following: Kaaba; Islam; Koran; and caliph.
3. How did the geographical situation of Arabia preserve it from being conquered by Persians, Macedonians, or Romans?
4. Why had the Arabs, until the time of Mohammed, played so inconspicuous a part in the history of the world?
5. Mohammed "began as a mule driver and ended as both a pope and a king." Explain this statement.
6. How does Mohammed's career in Mecca illustrate the saying that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country"?
7. What resemblances may be traced between Islam on the one side and Judaism and Christianity on the other side?
8. Did religion have anything to do with the migrations of the Germans? How was it with the Arabs?
9. Contrast the methods of propagating Christianity in Europe with those of spreading Islam in Asia.
10. Why is the defeat of the Moslems before Constantinople regarded as more significant than their defeat at the battle of Tours?