Intro to Islam
What is the spread of Islam?
What is Gold and Salt?
The Swahili language was influenced by Islamic traders - it is made up of these two languages.
What is Bantu and Arabic?
The holy city of Islam is located in this country.
What is Saudi Arabia?
Timbuktu is a city located in West Africa that mostly traded this.
What is Gold and Salt?
What are the 5 pillars?
The silk road and West African trade routes were similar in that both exchanged this very important element.
What are ideas/culture/religion?
Cities in Western Africa benefited most from this.
What is the Gold-Salt trade?
This is known as Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina.
What is Hejrah?
These were luxury goods traded from India.
What are textiles?
During the month of Ramadan, one must do this.
What is fasting?
What is they all traded on the Indian Ocean?
The construction of these along trade routes indicated religion was mainly exchanged along the routes.
What are mosques?
During the "Golden Age" of Muslim, this policy/characteristic was of upmost importance.
What is religious toleration?
This was the center of learning during the Abbasid dynasty.
What is the House of Wisdom?
In the Islamic world, the practice of this is prohibited with fellow Muslims.
What is slavery?
The location of the Islamic Caliphates influenced trade between Europe and Asia in this way.
What is they served as the middle man between Europe and Asia?
What were the 3 most prevalent cities in West Africa?
What are Ghana, Mali and Songhai?
Historians value the writing of Ibn Battuta most because of this.
What is he left descriptions of his travels?
Advances of the Muslim world were preserved in this way.
What is the establishment of libraries and institutions to store information?
This policy toward conquered non-Arab peoples led to the spread of Islam.
What is toleration compared to other conquerors?
Besides luxury goods, name 4 things traded along the trade routes.
2. Ideas/Knowledge
3. Technology/Inventions
4. Disease
5. Culture
6. People
Cities like Ghana and Mali thrived because of these two things.
What is the spread of Islam and the establishment of trade relations with Muslims?
Caliphates converted to Islam for these 2 main reasons.
What is to gain access to trade and positions of power (political)?
Greek and Roman texts were translated and preserved which helped lead to this cultural movement in Europe during the 15 and 16th century.
What is the Renaissance?