Geography
Where did Islam originate?
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
Approximately what percentage of the Arabian Peninsula is covered in desert?
What is about three-fourths (75%)?
What lifestyle did some residents of the Arabian Peninsula choose to adopt, moving from oasis to oasis with their herds?
What is a nomadic lifestyle?
What were some goods traded by Bedouin traders in the Arabian Peninsula?
What are animal products, crops, and materials for shelter?
Where was Muhammad born?
What is Mecca, one of the main trading centers of the Arabian Peninsula?
What defines an oasis in the desert?
What is a location with freshwater available at a spring or water hole, often marked by surrounding trees and plant life?
What purpose do the mountains serve in the Arabian Peninsula?
What is providing a barrier between the coastland and the desert, receiving more rainfall, and preventing rain from reaching the desert areas
What were the people who led a nomadic lifestyle in the Arabian Peninsula called?
Who are the Bedouins?
What did some Bedouins decide to do instead of continuing a nomadic lifestyle?
What is settling down in oases and beginning farming?
What religious beliefs were prevalent among the Arabs in Mecca during Muhammad's early life?
What is polytheism, or the belief in many gods?
What bodies of water border the Arabian Peninsula?
What are the Red Sea to the west, the Indian Ocean to the south, and the Persian Gulf to the east?
What type of farming is most suited to the fertile coastland of the Arabian Peninsula?
What is agriculture, facilitated by irrigation canals and rainwater conservation?
Why did Bedouins primarily use camels for transportation?
What is because camels were well suited for the dry and hot climate of the Arabian Peninsula?
What crop did farmers cultivate in oases due to its ability to thrive in the hot, dry climate?
What are date palm trees?
What was the shrine in Mecca containing idols of hundreds of local deities called?
What is the Kaaba?
What geographic features shaped the history of the Arabian Peninsula?
What are desert, oases, mountains, and fertile coastland?
What are the primary types of terrain found in the Arabian Desert?
What are rolling dunes of sand, dry plains, and plateaus?
What mode of transportation did Bedouin traders use to travel long distances for trade?
What are caravans of camels?
What method did farmers in the mountains use to farm the steep land?
What are terraces?
Where did Muhammad start gathering his followers?
What is the outskirts of Medina?
Give an example of a large oasis in the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Al-Hasa oasis in eastern Saudi Arabia?
Describe the weather conditions in the Arabian Desert.
What are harsh temperatures, scarce rainfall with occasional flash floods, and windstorms?
Where did traders in and around the Arabian Peninsula move goods from?
What are faraway kingdoms in West Africa and South Asian
What thrived along the coast of the Arabian Peninsula due to both farming and trading?
What are trade centers?
What religious beliefs influenced Muhammad during his upbringing in Mecca?
What are beliefs in one god, as held by Christian, Zoroastrian, and Jewish traders?