Geography
Rituals
Conflict
Contributions
Liturgy
100
This depicts the location of origin for the religion of Islam.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
100
This is the belief in one God
What is Monotheism?
100
This leader's assassination lead to a permanent split in Islam
Who was Ali?
100
This art form is made of colored glass and stones
What are Mosaics?
100
The language of Islam
What is Arabic?
200
Muslims make a pilgrimage to the Ka'ba located in this city, considered the holiest in Islam
What is Mecca?
200
The name for a Muslim's pilgrimage to Mecca
What is the Hajj?
200
The Crusades were fought over this city
What is Jerusalem?
200
Al-Khwarizmi invented this form of mathematics
What is Algebra?
200
The Holy Text of Islam
What is the Qur'an/Koran?
300
#1 on the map is the location where Muhammad fled to build his army for 8 years.
What is Medina?
300
The site in Mecca that Muslims visit and pray to
What is the Ka'bah
300
This man stopped Muslim expansion into Europe at the Battle of Tours
Who is Charles Martel?
300
These tall slender towers of Muslim architecture are known as
What are minarets?
300
Muslims translated the books in the Byzantine libraries to Arabic in order to preserve the history of these two civilizations
Who are Greece and Rome?
400
#2 on this map shows the location where Muslim advancement into Europe was halted.
What is Gaul/France?
400
Muslims must pray this many times in one day
What is five times?
400
This Pope wanted to rid Jerusalem of the "vile race" of Muslims
Who was Pope Urban II?
400
This site is an achievement of Muslim architecture
What is the Dome of the Rock?
400
This is the style of handwriting used in Islam
What is Calligraphy?
500
This city, named after Constantine the Great, served as the captial of three different empires at different times under three different names. Here it is getting sacked in 1453
What is Constantinople?
500
Ramadan occurs this many days earlier every year
What is eleven days?
500
This Muslim warrior took back Jerusalem from the Christians during the Crusades in 1087.
What was Saladin?
500
The modern day numbers 1,2,3....are known as
What are Arabic Numerals?
500
This is Islam's greatest literary achievement
What is "A Thousand and One Nights?"