| 1 |
The Abbasids got engaged in the ruthless <u>extermination </u>of the Umayyads. |
- A. Killing
- B. Removal
- C. Dismissed
- D. Turning out
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| 2 |
His brother heeded the ............................... shouted from the bank that he would be unharmed if he returned. |
- A. Admonishes
- B. threats
- C. Reassurances
- D. Warnings
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| 3 |
Ubdul Rehman I built an <u>aqueduct </u>for the supply of pure water to the capital. |
- A. A stream
- B. Water-conveying channel
- C. Water tank
- D. Small dam
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| 4 |
It took Ubdul Rehman some years more to bring all of spain to subjection, but he <u>persisted</u>. |
- A. Insisted
- B. Stood firm
- C. Progressed
- D. Went forward
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| 5 |
In Spain, he <u>intiated</u>an intellectual movement (of ideas and studies) |
- A. Began
- B. Introduced
- C. Established
- D. Developed or promoted
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| 6 |
His maternal uncles were Berbers from the district of North ______ |
- A. Carolina
- B. Europe
- C. Africa
- D. Australia
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| 7 |
al Hakam, Abd al Rahman's successor, was himself a................ and patronized learning. |
- A. Warrior
- B. Builder
- C. Scholar
- D. Painter
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| 8 |
It took him some years more to bring all of ............. to subjection. |
- A. Spain
- B. Egypt
- C. Sind
- D. Jerusalem
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| 9 |
In ______, he discontinued the Friday sermon, hitherto delivered in the name of the Abbasid Caliph |
- A. 773
- B. 873
- C. 973
- D. 1073
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| 10 |
His reign and that of his two immediate successors mark the __________ of Moslem rule in the west |
- A. lowest
- B. height
- C. depth
- D. degeneration
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