Islamic Achievements
Geography
Battuta & Mali
al-Bakri & Ghana
Random Assortment
100

Repeating geometric and repeating patterns

What is Arabesque?

100

This desert spans across North Africa and hold treasured salt mines

What is Sahara Desert?

100

Ibn Battuta grew up in what country?

What is Tangier, Morrocco?

100

al-Bakri lived in this location

What is Muslim Spain?

100

The holy book of Islam. Believed by Muslims to be the spoken revelation from Allah that Muhammed recieved

What is The Qua'ran?

200

First seen in the Muslim world and worked to promote health, cure diseases, and teach and expand medical knowledge. The idea of quarantining patients even developed at this time.

What is Hosptials?

200

This mountain range is located in North Africa

What is Atlas Mountains?

200

Mansa Musa completed this pillar of Islam when he made the journey to Mecca?

What is Hajj?

200
The kings of Ghana were able to gain wealth by imposing this action on traders

What is Levy?

200

This scroll depicts the bustling life of the capital city of the Song Dynasty

What is Qingming Scroll?

300

Library, academy and translation center in Baghdad. Translated texts from Greece, India, Persia and elsewhere into Arabic; scholars from many areas worked side by side here and books on law, poetry, history, and religion were found here.

What is House of Wisdom?

300

This describes the climate of Islamic Civilizations

What is desert, arid?

300

Upon visiting the Kingdom of Mali, Ibn Battuta writes: "no one claims descent from his father, but on the contrary from his mother's brother. A person's heirs are his sister's sons, not his own sons."

What social system does this describe? 

What is Matrilinieal?

300

This animal is considered the "Ship of the Desert"

What is Camel?

300

An Islamic Achievement that helped with navigation and travel.

What is Astrolabe?

400

Introduced by Persians, used by Abbasids; Arabian horses were bred to play the game, and it spread to Europe.

What is Polo?

400

This city, founded during the Mali Empire, was an important center of religion, learning, and trade.

What is Timbuktu?

400

al-Bakri described Audaghust as a key location along the caravan trade route. He writes that there are, "gardens with date palms. Wheat is grown there, by digging with hoes and it is watered with buckets. Only the kings and the rich eat wheat there. The rest of the people eat sorghum. Excellent cucumbers grow there, and there are a few small fig trees and some vines, as well as plantations of henna that produce a large crop. Awdaghust possesses wells with water. Cattle and sheep are so numerous that for a mithqal one may buy 10 rams or more. Honey too is very abundant, brought from the land of the Sudan. The people of Awdaghust enjoy extensive benefits and huge wealth. The market there is at all times full of people, so that owing to the great crowd and the noise of voices it is almost impossible for a man to hear the words of one sitting beside him. Their transactions are in gold, and they have no silver. There are handsome buildings and fine houses.


What location is being depicted here?

What is Oasis?

400

The written accounts about Muhammed, early Muslims, and the caliphs complied during and soon after Muhammed's lifetime. They give insight on what these people did and how Muslims should live.

What are Hadith Reports?

500

Center of learning and intellectual life; had many libraries, where clerks (many of them women) hand copied books and the Qur’an.

What is City of Cordoba?

500

Which two rivers run through West Africa?

What is Niger & Sengal?

500

This marvel depicted the King of Mali and his abundance of gold. Showed Europeans valued West African gold.

What is Catalan Atlas?

500

This 2 part exam, only completed by men, was used to determined qualified individuals to work in government. 

What is Civil Service Exam?

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