Vocabulary
This is the Holy Book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
Nomads who raised camels, goats and sheep, as well as traveled in the desert from oasis to oasis.
Who are the Bedouins?
The first caliphs after Muhammad died.
Islamic trade took over in these two continents.
What is Asia and Africa?
Islamic mathematicians are known for inventing this branch of mathematics.
What is algebra?
What is a bazaar?
The pillar of the 5 Pillars of Islam that represents that "There is one God, Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger."
What is Shahada?
They took over after the Umayyad caliphs, and ruled the Arab Empire until 1258.
Who are the Abbasids?
These factors made farming in the Arabian Peninsula difficult.
What is dry climate and lack of rainfall?
Al-Biruni, an Islamic scientist is credited with using this device to measure the Earth's circumference.
What is an astrolabe?
A fertile spot in a desert, where water is found.
What is an oasis?
Muhammad was born in this city.
What is Makkah (Mecca)?
Who is Suleiman I?
Government leaders, land owners, and merchants held most of this in the Islamic Civilizations.
What is power?
This famous poem was written by the great Kyayyan.
What is the Rubaiyat?
The tower part of a mosque.
What is a minaret?
This word means "surrendering to the will of Allah".
What is Islam?
This group came from Asia Minor and conquered most of the Arab Empire for almost a 700 year period.
Who are the Ottomans?
Enslaved people in Islamic Life were mostly made up of these people.
Who are prisoners of war?
This building was built to honor the memory of Mumtaz Mahal, the wife of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
What is the Taj Mahal?
The two branches of Islam that differ in their beliefs about the Prophet Muhammad's successor and the role of the Prophet's family in the Islamic community.
Who are the Shia and the Sunni?
The Islamic code of law.
These people came from Northern India and conquered India during the 1500 and 1600s.
Who are the Mughals?
Islamic traders invented some of the first uses of keeping business records and trading these for goods.
What are coins?
Islamic art often included designs with flowers, leaves, stars and writing, but was discouraged from including these.
What are living creatures?