What is the name of the early people of the Arabian Desert?
100
Islam
The messages Muhammad received form the basis of this religion.
100
Qur'an
What is the sacred book in Islam and considered to be the word of God?
100
Patrons
The Muslim world grew richer, rulers became great these, or sponsors.
200
oasis
What is a wet, fertile area in the desert?
200
Allah
Muhammad taught that there was only one God, called this, which means "the God" in Arabic.
200
Christianity and Judaism
What are the two other major religions that Muslims believe all worship the same God?
200
Calligraphy
Muslims artists turned this, another name for decorative writing, into an art form.
200
Caliph
What is a title that Muslims use for the highest leader of Islam?
300
souk (a market or bazaar)
What is the Arabic name for a market or bazaar where nomads traded animal products and desert herbs for goods such as cooking supplies and clothing.
300
Mecca
What is the place of origin for Islam? (HINT: This is the same location as Islam's holiest city.)
300
5 times a day
What is the required amount of times that Muslims are required to pray a day?
300
Astrolabe
Muslim scientists had improved this, which the Greeks had invented to chart the position of the stars.
300
Janissaries
These were "slave soldiers" who converted to Islam and became fierce fighters of the Ottoman Empire.
400
The Arabian Peninsula is located in the southwest corner of Asia. It lies near the intersection of three continents- Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Why do geographers call Arabia a "crossroads" location?
400
Kaaba
Muslims recognized the importance of this "black stone" as a house of worship that Abraham built and dedicated to the worship of one God.
400
September
In what month is Ramadan?
400
Sufism
This movement teaches that people can find God's love by having a personal relationship with God.
400
Shia
Who are the group of Muslims who thought that only members of Muhammad's family could become caliphs?
500
100 degrees
Arabia is one of the hottest, driest places in the world. With a blazing sun and clear skies, summer temperatures in the interior reach this daily.
500
Medina
The name of this city means "the Prophet's city" in Arabic.
500
Jihad
What is a way that Muslims respond positively to external and internal challenges?
500
Created tests for doctors to pass before they could treat people; made encyclopedias of drugs with descriptions of the drug's side effects; wrote descriptions of diseases; started the first pharmacy school to teach people how to make medicines.
What are the ways that Muslim doctors in Baghdad improved medicine?
500
Muslim mathematician al-Khwarizmi
He used new ideas from the Indian number system (including the concept of zero), with the Greek science of mathematics to write a math textbook on what he called "al-jabr" or algebra.