Pre-Islamic Religion and Society
Pre-Islamic Arab religion is this type of religion.
What is polytheistic?
Bonus 100pts: Name one of the gods they believe in.
This group of Muslims believe the leaders of the Muslims must be a descendent of Muhammad.
What is Shia?
This is the spread of Arab power and culture throughout Muslim controlled lands.
What is Arabization?
This is also known as the round city.
What is Baghdad?
Bonus 100pts: Name the building that made Baghdad the new cultural center of the world.
This is the meaning of "Mamluk".
What is slave?
Bonus 100pts: Who first hired them?
What is the Kaaba?
This is the term for Muslim community.
What is Umma?
Bonus 150pt: Where was the first muslim community formed?
During the Umayyad Caliphate, the government was limited to these people.
What are Arab-Muslims?
This group of people officially ended the Abbasid Caliphate.
Who are the Mongols?
Bonus 150pts: Name the leader of the Mongols that ended the Abbasid Caliphate.
This is what the Mamluk did for fun.
What are military training?
This is the problem in Mecca that Muhammad was upset about.
What are class tensions?
Bonus 200 pts: Name the top family in Mecca?
Name this pillar of Islam that is about the belief that Allah is the only god and Muhammad is the prophet.
What is the faith?
Bonus 200pts: What is the Arabic name for this?
His assassination started the Umayyad Caliphate.
Who is Ali?
Bonus 200pts: Who assassinated him?
This is the first group of people who turned the Abbasid Caliph into a puppet leader.
What are the Buyids ?
Bonus 200pts: What is their ethnicity?
Mamluk defended Egypt from being conquered by these people.
Who are the Mongols?
Bonus 200pts: Name another military accomplishment of the Mamluk.
This is how Mecca changed during the 5-6th centuries.
What is increased trade?
Bonus 250pts: What caused this change?
Name this pillar of Islam that is based on a belief of social responsibility.
What is Almsgiving?
This is the farthest east the Umayyad expanded to.
What is the Indus River Valley?
The Abbasids modeled their government after that of these peoples.
What is Persian?
This is the ethnicity of the Mamluk.
What are Turkic?
Bonus 250pts: What is another ethnicity of some of the other Mamluks?
What is moving toward monotheism?
The centrality of the Quran to Islam influenced this in the Muslim community.
What is literacy?
This group of people helped the Umayyads spread Islam to Spain.
Who are the Berbers?
Bonus 300pts: Name the province of Muslim Spain.
This revolution overthrew the Umayyad caliphate.
What is the Abbasid Revolution?
Bonus 300pts: Name the three groups of people that helped fuel it.
These are the people who finally conquered the Mamluks.
Who are the Ottomans?