The Rise and Spread of Islam
The Religion of Islam
Famous Faces
Geography
Mixed Bag
100
A cube shaped building in the center of Mecca that is considered a holy place to Muslims
What is the Kaaba?
100
Muslim house of worship.
What is a mosque?
100
Prophet of Islam.
What is Mohammad?
100
Describe the geography of Arabia.
What is a vast desert?
100
The shahada
What is to declare there is only one god - Allah
200
The movement of Mohammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina.
What is the hegira?
200
A sacred pilgrimage for all Muslims.
What is the hajj?
200

Son to Abraham and Hagar.

What is Ishmael?

200
An oasis.
What is a place to find water in the desert?
200
Describe a lesser jihad.
What is to fight to defend Islam?
300
Explain why was Mohammad's teaching of Allah such a problem for the leaders of Mecca?
What is he was telling the pilgrims to not visit the Kaaba which had false idols?
300
This is required of the pillar Sawm.
What is fasting during Ramadan?
300

Saved Europe from being taken over by the Muslim armies (in 732 AD).

Who is Charles Martel (The Hammer)?

300
Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem
What is the three holy cities in Islam?
300
Describe a greater jihad.
What is to improve yourself and to never give up?
400
Mohammad's last command to his people in his last sermon.
What is to spread the faith?
400
Name the five pillars of Islam.
What is faith, prayer, charity, fasting, hajj?
400
An Arab people who lived a nomadic lifestyle.
What is the Bedouins?
400
Describe why Jerusalem is holy to Muslims, Christians and Jews.
What is where Allah told Mohammad to flee, where Jesus was crucified and resurrected and the Wailing Wall.
400
Explain why the people of Arabia were nomads.
What is they lived in a desert and had to constantly move their herds for water and grazing land?
500
What are three territories conquered by the Arabs soon after Mohammad's death.
What is Egypt, Canaan, North Africa, Mesopotamia, Iran?
500
Explain how Muslims, Christians and Jews are alike.
What is they all believe in God and the Old Testament?
500
Three Dark Age German tribes that were spreading anarchy over western Europe while Mohammad preached a new faith.
What is the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Goths, Lombards, Franks, Vandals?
500
Mt. Moriah the rock of creation.
Where Mohammad sat in Jerusalem and was told in a dream to flee Mecca?
500
List three advances we have the Arabs to thank for.
What is alchemy, algebra, autopsies?
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