Geography
River system in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
The lifestyle of the bedouins.
What is nomadic?
The Abbasid Empire did this to effectively govern their territory.
What is divide into 24 provinces?
Location of al Andalus.
What is Spain?
What is the Red Sea?
Items sold in the bazaar by merchants.
What is cloth, grains, ivory, metal, silk, slaves, spices?
Capital of the Umayyad Empire.
What is Damascus, Syria?
What is Baghdad?
When a person is sent away or banned from their native country for political or punitive reasons.
What is exile?
Mountain range that separates Mesopotamia from Persia.
What is the Zagros Mountains?
The way Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are related.
What is Abrahamic religions?
Non-muslims paid this to keep their religion and not convert to Islam.
What is a tax?
The practice of including people of different religions and races.
What is inclusive?
Originally a mosque that was later turned into a church.
What was the Alhambra?
Region where the city of Baghdad is located.
What is Mesopotamia?
The person who built the Ka'aba.
Who is Abraham?
This contributed to the downfall of the Umayyad Empire.
What is the caliphs' life of extreme luxury?
This helped the Abbasids grow wealthy.
What is taxes on land, goods traded, and special tax on Muslims.
He successfully defended his kingdom from invasions by Charlamagne.
Who is Abd al-Rahman I?
The river systems in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
City that served as a center of trade and religion.
What is Mecca?
Caliph that focused on expanding and uniting the empire.
Who is Abd al-Malik?
This contributed to the downfall of the Abbasid Empire.
What are invasions from the Seljuk Turks and Mongols and tensions between the Sunni and Shia?
The Arab Agricultural Revolution increased food production and al Andalus traded luxury goods like silk and grains are examples of this.
What is a Golden Age?