Islamic Beliefs & Worship
The religion based on messages Muhammad received from God.
What is Islam?
An Arabian man whose teachings became the basis for a new religion.
Who is Muhammad?
A group of traders that travel together.
What is a caravan?
The geographic region defined as Africa south of the Sahara.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
A spoken record of past events.
What is oral history?
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur’an?
The location where Muhammad took his followers after being forced out of Mecca.
What is Medina?
The two main ways Islam spread following Muhammad's death.
What are conquest and trade?
Open grassland with scattered trees
What is a savannah?
A journey taken to a sacred place.
What is a pilgrimage?
A building for Muslim prayer.
What is a mosque?
The title of the highest Islamic leader.
What is a Caliph?
The device invented by Greeks that Muslim scholars improved upon to chart star positions.
What is the astrolabe?
The four primary climates of Africa
What are Rainforest, Grasslands, Semiarid, and Desert?
The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits.
What is animism?
The first duties and acts of worship required of all Muslims.
What are the Five Pillars?
The two main groups into which Muslims solidified during the start of the empire.
Who are the Sunni and Shia?
The disease that a Muslim doctor discovered how to treat.
What is smallpox?
The two most valuable resources of West Africa.
What are salt and gold?
A system of social organization based strictly on family ties.
What is a kinship system?
A holy war, struggle, or striving.
What is Jihad?
The three major societal changes pushed by Muhammad.
What are stopping polytheism, promoting equality between rich and poor, and giving money to the poor?
Muslim scholars combined this civilization's number system with this other civilization's science of mathematics.
What are Indian and Greek?
The key technology that changed life and industry in West Africa.
What is iron?
The new form of Christianity created when African cultures blended with Christian traditions.
What is Coptic Christianity?