Culture
This was the predominant religion of the Abbasid Caliphate?
Islam
The ruler of a Caliphate is called what?
Caliph
This former Sultan of Mali is often said to be one of the richest individuals who ever lived.
Mansa Musa
He is better known as Bobcat?
Joey Stolba
This type of mathematics was "invented" at the House of Wisdom?
Trigonometry or Al-gebra
The Abbasid Caliphate experienced this...a name for the breaking apart of the empire, which formally ended in the year 1258.
fragmentation
This is the term economists use to describe the devaluation of currency.
Inflation
Bobcat is the world's leading expert on canning this fruit?
Pickles
The House of Wisdom was located in which city?
Baghdad
Name for people who breed and care for animals. They often migrate with their animals, leading to a nomadic lifestyle.
Pastoralists
This is the name for the holy pilgrimage to Mecca by devout Muslims.
Hajj
Per Bobcat, how many Little Bites come in a Little Bites pack?
Four
Name two ancient philosophers who scholars translated at the House of Wisdom?
Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, etc.
Tribes of these peoples migrated out from Central Asia and would convert to Islam when they reached the Middle East. They would eventually go on to found new Muslim dynasties in the wake of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Turkic peoples
This city was the cultural capital of the Mali Empire?
Timbuktu
This is the term that describes the creation of a new culture through the blending of two or more existing cultures?
Syncretism
This Muslim scholar traveled throughout Dar-al-Islam and is one of the best sources we have on 14th-century societies.
Ibn Battuta