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Question 2: [5] It remained the primary base for Arab expansion in Africa until Qayrawan was founded in ________ in 670. | |||
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Question 3: Fustat, The Hanging Church and Old Cairo are all:
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Question 4: After ________ conquered Egypt around 331 BC, the capital became the city named for him, Alexandria, on the Mediterranean coast. | |||
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Question 5: The remains of the city were eventually absorbed by nearby ________, which had been built to the north of Fustat in 969 when the Algerian Fatimids conquered the region and created a new city as a royal enclosure for the Caliph. | |||
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Question 6: Fustat (also Fostat, Al Fustat, Misr al-Fustat and Fustat-Misr, and in Arabic الفسطاط), was the first capital of Egypt under ________ rule. | |||
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Question 7: Fustat, Heliopolis (ancient) and Cairo Geniza are all:
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Question 8: [9] The majority of the settlers came from Yemen, with the next largest grouping from western ________, along with some Jews and Roman mercenaries. | |||
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Question 9: This situation remained stable for nearly a thousand years, until the army of the Arabian Caliph Umar captured the region in the 7th century, shortly after the death of ________. | |||
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Question 10: ________ in the early 11th century described some of them rising up to 14 stories, with roof gardens on the top storey complete with ox-drawn water wheels for irrigating them. | |||
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