Vocabulary
What does going without eating for certain periods of time mean?
Fasting
What do you call someone who follows the word of Allah?
Muslim
Arabic numbers are done in groups of how many numbers?
10
What duty did Arab soldiers believe they had?
Spread of Islam
What did the early Abbasid caliphs make Baghdad into?
Center of learning
Who is one who declares publicity that one believes has come from God or a God?
Prophet
True or False: Muhhamad was a trader before spreading the word of Allah.
True
What did navigation calculate?
Longitude, latitude, and directions
The first four caliphs were closely associated with Muhammad. What was their goal?
Protect and spread Islam
When did the Abbasid caliphs overthrow the Umayyad caliphs?
About 750 CE
What is a religion marked by the belief in Allah as the sole deity, in Muhammad as his prophet, and in the Holy Qur’an?
Islam
When did the religion of Islam start?
7th century/610C.E.
What is one of the greatest Islamic art styles?
Poetry
What group of Muslims taught Islam effectively?
Sufis
Why were non-Arab Muslims mad at the Umayyad caliphs in the 700s?
Worse jobs and higher taxes
What is a society dominated by men?
Patriarchy
What was “the city of the prophet” called?
Madinah
What was the developed method to solve difficult math problems called?
Al-Jabbar
Muslim merchants built what to teach Islam throughout Southeast Asia?
Trading posts
What did the Abbasid caliphs focus on improving?
Trade and culture
What is a book of sacred writings accepted by Muslims as revealed to Muhammad by Allah?
The Holy Qur’an/Holy Qur’an/ Kuran
What are 3 Muslim groups from the Islamic Empire?
Shia, Sunni, Abbasids, Seljuk Turks, and Umayyads
Who were the first people to separate compounds?
Islamic scholars
Around what time did Muslim warriors get into Spain?
The early 700s
What culture did the Abbasids value a lot?
Persian