Arabian Peninsula
What three regions does the Arabian Peninsula connect?
It connects Africa, Asia, and Europe.
What is the name of the building that Muslims worship in?
A mosque
What is a caliph?
Deputy of the prophet. A leader that spread Islam after Muhammad's death.
Muhammad.
How did Islam spread through Afro-Eurasia?
It was able to spread through trade routes and military conquests.
Name two major cities in the Arabian Peninsula.
Baghdad and Mecca.
What was the Islamic Golden Age?
The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural, economic and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 14th century
The holy book of Islam is known at the...
Qu'ran.
Why was Islam able to spread so easily through the Byzantine and Persian empires?
Why was it significant that the Arabian Peninsula connected Afro-Eurasia?
List three achievements of the Islamic Golden Age
Answers may vary.
What is the term used for the first four caliphs after Muhammad's death?
The Rightly Guided Caliphs.
What was the Ka'aba
The Kaaba (Al Kaaba Al Musharrafah - The Holy Kaaba) at the center of Islam's most sacred mosque, Al-Masjid al-Haram, in Mecca. It is the most sacred site in Islam and is considered the "House of Allah (God)" and has a similar role to the Tabernacle and Holy of Holies in Judaism. Wherever they are in the world, Muslims are expected to face the Kaaba when performing salat (prayer). From any point in the world, the direction facing the Kaaba is called the qibla.
List two effects of the spread of Islam.
Old trade networks were revived through Afro-Eurasia.
Common language of Arabic spread
Cities for learning and trading flourished.
What was a bedouin and what significance did they play during this time?
A tribe/clan/group of nomadic people who lived in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. People were very loyal to their bedouin and they helped with survival.
What are the two sects of Islam?
Sunni and Shi'a
How did the role of caliphs differ from previous religious leaders?
They were not only trying to spread the religion, they acted as a political leader as well.
Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are all __________ religions.
Abrahamic.
Describe the role Islam played in politics during this time.
Islam was not only a religion, but acted as a political institution as well. The spread of Islam brought together people from Afro-Eurasia through the exchange of goods and ideas. People were united under Islam, similarly to how people were united under empires.
By the 600's, permanent trade routes were established between the Byzantine and Persian Empires, as well as along the silk road. What were some things that were traded along these routes?
Spices, incense, and silk. Camels were used to navigate these routes.
Abbasid.
Who was Abu Bakr and why is he significant?
He was the first caliph after Muhammad's death. Fought bedouin tribes that tried to break away and maintained unity through military conflict.
Name each of the 5 pillars of Islam.
1. Declaration of faith
2. Daily prayer
3. Alms to the poor
4. Fasting during Ramadan
5. Hajj to Mecca
How did trade routes and warfare affect civilizations between 500 and 1500 CE?
People transported valuable goods, religious ideas, scientific knowledge and inventions from place to place. This helped advance civilizations and bring greater connections.