Geography
A word for extremely dry
Arid
Religion that has one God
Monotheism
A supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government
Caliph
This math known as “al jabr” uses x, y, or z in place of numbers to solve complex mathematical problems.
Algebra
A mountainous region along the western coast of Arabia?
Hijaz
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Can all be dated back to this person
Abraham
Non-Muslims living in a caliphate were required to pay a ________ to practice their religion.
tax
Goods flowed into Islamic cities from these three continents.
Asia, Africa, and Europe
This city was the home town of Muhammad and is an important site for religious pilgrimage.
Mecca
This is the holy text of Islam.
Quran
The question of succession to the prophet Muhammad would lead to the division of the Islamic community into these two groups.
Sunni and Shi’a
This is the art of decorative writing.
Calligraphy
This city, on the Tigris River, was constructed as the capital of the Abbasid Empire. It contained the House of Wisdom.
Baghdad
Which city is holy to Jews, Christians, and Muslims?
Jerusalem
This language spread with Islam, and facilitated trade across Muslim lands.
Muslim traders had access to the ______ Sea and the _________ Ocean.
Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean.
The Arabs had two ways of living. These were...
Nomads (Bedouins) and the Sedentary or Town Dwellers Arabs.
To Muslims, Jews and Christians and known as this.
"people of the book"
These two empires were weakened through years of conflict and lost vast territories to the Muslim Empire.
The Byzantine and Persian Empires
Europeans previously used Roman Numerals, but adopted this number system (0, 1, 2, 3,…9) because they made it easier to perform calculations.
Arabic Numerals