Geography
Belief Systems
Government
Technology
Culture
100
The name of the peninsula that the Islamic Empire first called home.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
100
The meaning of the term "Islam"
What is surrender?
100
The name of the first Caliph after Muhammad
Who is Abu Bakr?
100
A name for the art of fine handwriting
What is calligraphy?
100
Monotheistic means this
What is belief in one God?
200
The language spoken by most people in the Arabian Peninsula
What is Arabic?
200
Muslims worship this name of God
Who is Allah?
200
The name of the highest religious and political leader in a Muslim movement
What is a caliph?
200
Al-Khwarizmi laid the foundation for this type of mathematics from a set of calculations he published
What is algebra?
200
The day of the week that Muslims traditionally gather to worship
What is Friday?
300
The name of the river by the city of Baghdad
What is the Tigris?
300
Who was the founder of Islam?
Who is Muhammad?
300
The name for the period of time when the Abbasid culture was at its peak and achieved many cultural advances
What is a golden age?
300
What made hospitals of the Islamic empire different from other hospitals at the time
What is treating poor people who couldn't pay
300
The prophet that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity all share
Who is Abraham?
400
The name of the city that Muslims must try to make a pilgrimage to at least once in their life
What is Mecca?
400
The name of the two Muslim groups who disagree about how to select the caliph
What are the Shi'a and the Sunni?
400
The family that took power after Ali was assassinated in 661 and who moved the capital from Medina to Damascus
Who are the Umayyads?
400
Muslim scholars learned to make paper from these people and therefore helped to spark an interest in learning by creating more books
Who are the Chinese?
400
Two things that muslims are traditionally not allowed to consume (eat or drink)
What is pork and alcohol?
500
People that move from place to place are called these
What are nomads?
500
The five pillars of Islam
What are Faith, Prayer, Alms, Fasting, and Pilgrimage?
500
Name two aspects of culture for which the Abbasid culture became famous?
What is two of the following: Art, Literature, Math, Medicine
500
The three buildings that are considered houses of worship for Muslims, Jews, and Christians
What are mosques, synagogues, and churches?
500
What was the word that described how the Islamic Empire treated people of different religions, in particular both the Jews and the Christians?
What is tolerance?
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