Islam
Medieval Middle East Trade Routes
Arabian Peninsula -Geography
Arabian Peninsula - Adaptations
Potpouri
100
Those who practice the religion of Islam are known as this.
What are Muslims?
100
This large body of water provided the water routes from seaports like Aden in the Middle East to seaports like Pegu in the Far East.
What is the Indian Ocean?
100
These environments serve as places to find fresh water in desert areas.
What are oases?
100
This is known as the "ship of the desert" and was used for transportation on trade routes.
What is the camel?
100
This is the name of the nomadic group of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Bedouins?
200
This Arab man introduced Islam to the people of the Arabian Peninsula.
Who is Muhammad?
200
This body of water connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
200
This type of environment is located separates inland plateaus from the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and the Persian Gulf.
What is the coastal plain?
200
In order to increase areas in which to farm, people built these.
What are irrigation systems?
200
This word describes those who permanently settle in one place.
What is sedentary?
300
This important Islamic city was the birthplace of Muhammad.
What is Makkah?
300
This major center on Muslim trade routes was also the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
300
This type of of environment makes up 3/4 of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is desert?
300
In order to farm on steep slopes in the mountains, people created these.
What are terraces?
300
These three bodies of water surround the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and Persian Gulf?
400
While Islam began among this group of people, today they make up only a small minority of Muslims worldwide.
Who are Arabs?
400
This body of water would have to be crossed to trade with Europe if you were coming from the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
This environment receives as much as 20 inches a year, that fill up dry riverbeds during rain storms.
What are the mountains?
400
This plant was known as the "mother and aunt of the Arabs" because of all that it provided that helped people live.
What is the date palm tree?
400
Muslims traded with many societies, including this civilization located on the banks of the Nile River.
Who are the Egyptians?
500
Islam spread to rapidly to far away places because of this.
What are trade routes?
500
This major trade center for Muslim trade routes is located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and is the present-day capital of Iraq.
What is Baghdad?
500
The Arabian Peninsula is located at the crossroads of these three continents.
What is Europe, Asia, and Africa?
500
This dam, in what is now Yemen, brought water to fields that grew food for 300,000 people.
What is the Marib Dam?
500
This is the name for the mountain range that is located on the south eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Jabal Al Akdar Mountains?
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