| 1 |
10000 workmen with 1500 beasts of burden laboured on Al-Zahara for a ________ of years |
- A. dozen
- B. score
- C. century
- D. millennium
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| 2 |
Never before was Cordova so prosperous, Andalusia so rich and the state to _________ |
- A. weak
- B. defeated
- C. triumphant
- D. crippled
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| 3 |
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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| 4 |
In Al -Zahra the caliph surrounded himself with body guard of ................. which numbered 3750 |
- A. Slaves
- B. Women
- C. Masons
- D. laborer's
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| 5 |
He did not assume the caliph's title but contented himself with the title ______ |
- A. Wazir
- B. Amir
- C. Kabir
- D. Jahangir
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| 6 |
When his realm consolidated Abd-al Rahman turned to the arts of __________ |
- A. war
- B. peace
- C. piece
- D. pease
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| 7 |
Two years before his death in 788 Abd-al-Rahman founded the great __________ of Cordova |
- A. church
- B. mosque
- C. tomb
- D. palace
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| 8 |
Abd al Rehman, afoot, friendless and penniless made his way to ............ and ound one friend there. |
- A. Indonesia
- B. Palestine
- C. Samarkand
- D. Lahore
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| 9 |
The third Abd-al-Rahman was a ___________ man when he took office |
- A. old
- B. invalid
- C. infant
- D. young
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| 10 |
Spain had thus been the first province to shake ________ the authority of the recognized caliph in Islam |
- A. on
- B. of
- C. off
- D. for
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