Episode 111 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 111: Pre-Islamic Arabia. See what you remember about Arabian history leading up to the late sixth century, by clicking START, below!

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This Arab client kingdom helped serve the needs of several generations of Sasanian emperors on the Roman-Persian frontier, and was headquartered in present-day Iraq.

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Al-Jahiliyya is most commonly translated as:

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This kingdom, based in what’s today Yemen, rose to prominence around 300 CE and was alternately ruled by Jewish and Christian leadership in later centuries.

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The patriarch of the Adnani Arab tribes is:

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This Pre-Islamic Arabian war was allegedly fought over a trespassing camel.

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Many Arabian Christians in the 500s were:

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This Byzantine Emperor worked with the client king al-Harith ibn Jabalah for most of his reign.

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This Christian kingdom lay in present-day Ethiopia, across the Red Sea from west-central Arabia.

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The ruler Alamoundaros was a client king for which empire?

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Another name for the central west coast of what is today Saudi Arabia.

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Roman accounts of Arabs during the first few centuries CE tend to depict the latter as

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The rulers al-Harith and al-Mundir ruled over which kingdom?

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This Arab client kingdom helped serve the needs of several generations of Byzantine emperors on the Roman-Persian frontier, particularly during the 500s CE.

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This kingdom was based in what’s today Jordan from the 200s BCE until being conquered by the Romans in 106.

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Arabic odes are called:

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