People
Definitions
Vocabulary
Byzantine
Islam
100

Arabic word for "God" that Muslims use.

Who is Allah?

100

Connects the Bosporus and the Meditteranean Sea.

What is the Black Sea?

100

A follower of the religion of Islam?

What is a Muslim?

100

Paintings that represent saints or holy people that people prayed to.

What are Icons?

100

A man that calls Muslims to prayer 5 times a day.

What is a Muezzin?

200

Angel that came to Muhammad and called him to recite that there was only one true God.

Who is the Angel Gabriel?

200

The ninth month of the Muslim year, during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.

What is Ramadan?

200

The movement of early Muslims from Mecca to Yathrib, this word means "migration".

What is the Hijra?

200

Means "universal" in latin.

What is Catholic?

200

The most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine, Muslims face towards it while praying.

What is the Kaaba?

300

People who moved from one place to another, many lived in the desert.

Who are Bedouins?

300

A split over different points of view, often because of religion.

What is a Schism?
300

Houses of worship, in which some Muslims kneel, others kneel outside.

What is a Mosque?

300

People who moved from one area to another.

What is a Nomad?

300

A holy book that contains many kinds of writing, including stories, promises, warnings, and instructions.

What is the Quran?

400

He is recognized as a messenger and prophet of God in Islam and the father of both Issac and Ishmael.

Who is Abraham?

400

The ability to allow others to practice a different religion or different beliefs.

What is Tolerance?

400

A Christian saint who is believed to give special help to any person or object.

What is a Patron?

400

Correct belief.

What is Orthodox?

400

The direction of the Kaaba to which Muslims turn at prayer.

What is the Qibla?
500

At age 45, he became a Byzantine Emperor in 527, he then died in 565 at age 83.

Who is Justinian?

500

The leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church; male head of family.

What is a Patriarch?

500

The title for a Muslim's religous leader or chief.

What is an Imam?

500
"The Church of Holy Wisdom"

What is the Hagia Sophia?

500

A holy war undertaken as a sacred duty by Muslims.

What is Jihad?