Arabia & Islam

Islamic Achievements

100

y= mx+b 

Find the slope.

What? Is this a math question?

No, during the Golden Age of Islam there were many advancements in this area of mathematics.

algebra

200

Part 1: Islamic achievements in this field include hospitals, understanding of the human body, development of surgical tools.

Part 2: They even figured out how the human ______ works.

medicine

eye

300

The Golden Age of Islam included people like al- Zahrawi who revolutionized the treatment of wounds by using ________ guts to create __________.

cat

stitches 

400

Islamic engineers created great time telling devices. Seen here is this type of famous water clock.

elephant clock

500

This tool was used for navigation and would eventually help out explorers.

astrolabe

Geography

100

Seen here, this sea is in between Egypt and Arabia.

I'm seeing this color...

Red Sea

200

This area of the middle east shown in green is known as what?

Arabia

300

Islam made its way into this geographic area shown here in green.

North Africa

400

A holy city for Muslims and also the location of the kaaba. This is in _________.

Mecca

500

The city where Muhammad fled to after being persecuted for his beliefs.

Medina

Major Religions

100

This individual is the founder of Christianity.

The holy day for Christians is on ___________.

Jesus

Sunday

200

____________ is the founder of Judaism.

The Torah is the holy ______ in Judaism. 

Abraham

text/book

300

Name the religion:

Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, Rosh Hashanah, Passover=

Christmas, Easter=

Judaism

Christianity

400

For Muslims fasting during the daylight hours is important for this holiday. 

Ramadan

500

Remember the schism in 1054.

There was the _____________ ______________ branch centered in Rome.

There was the _____________ ______________ branch centered in Constantinople.

Roman Catholic

Eastern Orthodox

Islam and 5 Pillars

100

The fifth pillar of Islam is the hajj where people make a  __________ to the city of Mecca once in their life time.

pilgrimage

200

The second pillar of Islam has Muslims pray _____ times a day.

They must face the direction of ___________.

5

Mecca

300

These were two branches of Islam that developed following the death of the prophet Muhammad.

Sunni and Shia

400

Name the house of worship.

Name the towers shown on the sides of the building.

Name the geometric design of the roof.

mosque

minarets

domes

500

The first pillar is the profession of _________.

There is no other _________ but Allah and ________ is his messenger.

faith

God; Muhammad 

Potpourri

100

_____________ is the founder of Islam. 

His revelations or events during his lifetime are revealed in this scared text for Muslims. 

Muhammad

Quran

200

There are 3 types of Islamic art that you may see in a mosque. Name each seen here in order:

calligraphy

geometric 

organic 

300

This kingdom seen here in color on the map was north of Spain in the present day country of France. Oui!

Kingdom of the Franks

400

_____________ barriers such as mountains, oceans and deserts made traveling across the difficult.

This slowed down the spread of ______________.

Geographic

Islam

500

Aggression from other kingdoms & empires such as the ____________ and ______________ made it harder for Islam to spread into Europe and places to the north. 

Additionally, the Islamic Empire was always united. Caliphs and other Islamic groups routinely got along with each other.

True       or     False

Franks; Byzantines

False