Muslim Cities
Vocabulary Words
The Overthrow of the Umayyads
Abbasids
Fatimids
100
Holy city for Muslims.
What is Mecca?
100
A fighting force that is maintained in times of peace as well as times of war.
What is standing army?
100
Killed the Umayyad leaders.
Who were the Abbasids?
100
Abbasid capital
Where is Baghdad?
100
Fatimids are part of this group of Muslims.
Who are Shi'a?
200
Capital of Umayyad
What is Damascus?
200
A system of departments and agencies that carry out the work of a government.
What is a bureaucracy?
200
Only Umayyad leader to survive.
Who is Abd-al-Rahman?
200
The Abbasid built a huge __________.
What is a standing army?
200
Fatimids believed they were descents of Muhammad's daughter.
Who was Fatima?
300
Abbasid capital
What is Baghdad?
300
The art of fine handwriting.
What is calligraphy?
300
Muslim Spain
What is Al-Andalus?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
In 1258, captured Baghdad, and killed the Abbasid caliph to end the Abbasid dynasty. Who were the Mongols?
300
Capital of the Fatimids.
Where was Cairo?
400
Fatima capital
What is Cairo?
400
A period in which a society or cultures is at its peak.
What is the golden age?
400
The southwestern tip of Europe, where the modern nations of Spain and Portugal are located.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
400
In 1055, captured Baghdad from the Abbasids.
Who were the Seljuk Turks?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
The capital of the Fatimids is in this country. Where is Egypt?
500
Al-Andalus capital
What is Cordoba?
500
A soldier who is paid to fight.
Who is a mercenary?
500
United the Muslims when he declared Arabic the language of all Muslim lands.
Who is Abd Al-Malik?
500
Baghdad is located between these 2 bodies of water.
Where is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
500
The largest non-polar desert.
What is the Sahara?
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