Islamic Achievements
Repeating geometric and repeating patterns
What is Arabesque?
This desert spans across North Africa and hold treasured salt mines
What is Sahara Desert?
Ibn Battuta grew up in what country?
What is Tangier, Morrocco?
al-Bakri lived in this location
What is Muslim Spain?
The holy book of Islam. Believed by Muslims to be the spoken revelation from Allah that Muhammed recieved
What is The Qua'ran?
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?
This mountain range is located in North Africa
What is Atlas Mountains?
Mansa Musa completed this pillar of Islam when he made the journey to Mecca?
What is Hajj?
What is Levy?
This scroll depicts the bustling life of the capital city of the Song Dynasty
What is Qingming Scroll?
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?
This describes the climate of Islamic Civilizations
What is desert, arid?
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?
This animal is considered the "Ship of the Desert"
What is Camel?
An Islamic Achievement that helped with navigation and travel.
What is Astrolabe?
Introduced by Persians, used by Abbasids; Arabian horses were bred to play the game, and it spread to Europe.
What is Polo?
This city, founded during the Mali Empire, was an important center of religion, learning, and trade.
What is Timbuktu?
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?
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?
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?
Which two rivers run through West Africa?
What is Niger & Sengal?
This marvel depicted the King of Mali and his abundance of gold. Showed Europeans valued West African gold.
What is Catalan Atlas?
This 2 part exam, only completed by men, was used to determined qualified individuals to work in government.
What is Civil Service Exam?