Religion
This title refers to the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
What is the Pope?
Jesus of Nazareth was crucified here.
What is Jerusalem?
This body of water connected Christian Europe to the Islamic Middle East and Northern Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
These wars were fought for Christians to gain safe travels to the Holy Lands in Jerusalem for pilgrimages according to their Christian faith.
What were the Crusades?
This sect of Christianity is most often practiced in Eastern Europe.
What is Eastern Orthodox (or Greek/Russian etc.) Christianity?
This Mosque is build on a very holy hilltop in Jerusalem.
What is the Al-Aqsa Mosque (the Dome of the Rock)?
This trade route connected Asia to Europe for thousands of years.
What is the Silk Road?
First designed in Islamic urban centers, these buildings housed the sick and are crucial to society today.
What are hospitals?
This religion was born in the Arabian desert.
What is Islam?
The name of the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is the Hajj?
This disease spread from Asia to Europe, due to travel and trade, and whipped out nearly HALF of Europe.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
Early Islamic advancements in optics allowed scientists to later create these...
What are glasses?
The prophet and founder of Islam.
Who was Muhammad?
Christians and Muslims alike were encouraged to give THIS to the poor...
What are alms/charity?
This Empire dominated Asia and although brutal, they kept trade routes safe and open...
Who were the Mongols?
Native to East Africa, Ibn Battuta would have needed a lot of THIS in his mug every morning as he traveled farther than anyone else in the known world...
What is coffee?
All Muslims must travel to this city, if physically able to, at least once to pray.
What is Mecca?
This city is where Muhammad fled when initially driven out of Mecca...
What is Medina?
This African king became the richest man in the world by governing trade routes in the Sahara (think salt and gold)...
Who was Mansa Musa?
This Islamic form of mathematics is crucial to our sciences and businesses today, and helped us adopt Arabic numerals (leaving behind Roman numerals).
What is Algebra?