Middle East Geography
The large desert Peninsula surrounded by the red sea, Persian Gulf and Arabian sea.
The Arabian Peninsula
What was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople
A fertile spot in a desert, where water is found.
Oasis
What is the the Arab word for God?
Allah
What city became the center of the islamic empire?
Bagdad
What two rivers create "fertile crescent" in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
Who what the Byzantine Emperor who built the Hagia Sophia, reconquered Rome and restructured the system of laws?
Justinian I
A type of people who travel from place to place to find fresh water and pasture for their livestock.
Nomads
How many times a day to strict muslims pray?
Five
Where did the ideas that Arab scholars built upon come from?
Rome, Greece, India, China
The longest river, found in the Middle East.
The Nile
What the primary language Spoken in the Byzantine Empire?
Greek
Where was Muhammad from? (later the Muslim holy city)
Mecca
A Muslim house of worship.
A mosque
What trade route brought ideas and inventions though the Islamic Empire?
The Silk Road
What narrow body of water separates Europe and the Middle East?
The Bosphorus Straight
What does the "Hagia Sophia" translate too?
Holy Wisdom
An Arab market or marketplace.
Souk
One of the five pillars of Islam, a religious journey to a holy cite.
Pilgrimage.
What group ended the Islamic Golden age in the 14th century?
The Mongols
What Mountain range, between the Black and Caspian sea, forms a natural border between Europe and Asia.
The Caucasus Mountains.
The "Great Schism" created what branch of Christianity in the East?
The Orthodox Church
According to Muhammad who taught him the teaching of Islam?
The Angel Gabriel.
The Muslim Holy Month where Muslim fast during the day.
What Spanish city was the furthest western point of Islamic empire.
Cordoba