Islamic Terms
Trading: The Sand Roads and the Sea Roads
North African People/Geography
The Islamic Empire
Religious Beliefs/Jihad
100
What is the Islamic Holy Text?
What is the Qur’an
100
What products did they ship to Africa on the Sea Roads?
What are Bulk goods, textiles, pepper, timber, rice, sugar, wheat
100
What did the Nile River floods do for the Songhai people?
What is Flooded the banks and Provided a rich soil for raising crops and taking care of cattle
100
Why don't Muslims have priests?
What is no one can stand between the believer and Allah.
100
What main word describes Muslim clothes and dress?
What is Conservative (veiling, non-revealing)
200
What is the pilgrimage to Mecca and one of the 5 Pillars of Islam?
What is the Hajj
200
Why were they shipping bulk goods just over sea roads and not on sand roads?
Why is Costs were lower, and ships could handle more goods
200
What did the impact of the Arab invasion in 641 C.E. have on Egypt?
What is The entire coastal region of North Africa was under Arab rule and Islam was becoming the prominent religion, by the 8th century
200
The world of Islam is considered "History's First ____"
What is "Truly Global Civilization."
200
Why don’t Muslims eat pork?
Why is they Believe swine is “unclean” and Qur’an commands that they do not eat it
300
What is “the entire Islamic way of life” especially the Law of Islam?
What is Shari’ah
300
How was it possible for ships to go back and forth from Africa to India?
What is The monsoons (South in Nov. to Feb., North in April to Sept.)
300
What region was the Axum Empire originally from?
What is The highlands of Ethiopia
300
No group was more important in the transmission of Islamic beliefs and practices than _____.
What is the ulama.
300
What is the Muslim word for “Struggle” and sometimes considered the sixth pillar?
What is Jihad
400
What does “Khimar” mean in English?
What is Headcovering
400
Before the sand roads were created, what things did Africa use to make trade possible?
What is donkeys, and the Niger River.
400
What 2 kingdoms do the Sand Roads pass through?
What are the Kingdoms of Ghana and Kingdom of Mali
400
The Western Christendom and the Hindu world operated without a _____ because they were bound with religious culture.
What is political center.
400
What can Muslims not do during Ramadan?
What is Eat, drink, or have sexual relations from dawn to dusk
500
What is the Islamic term for prayer?
What is As-Salah
500
Where did the slaves come from that West Africa traded?
What is Islamic and stateless societies found in the southern parts of Africa
500
What mountains do the Sand Roads cross through?
What are the Atlas Mountians
500
How was the Islamic Empire unique by 1500 C.E.?
What is it embraced virtually every other civilization in the Afro-Eurasian Hemisphere.
500
Who did the Arabs defeat in the 751 Battle of Talas River, as part of a conquest for Jihad?
Who is the Chinese
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