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Lesson 3 Chapter 3
Lesson 1 and 2 Chapter 4
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Chapter 4
100
Is a desert area that contains water
What is an oasis?
100
People who believe the Islamic culture
What are Muslims?
100
A title that means "successor"
What is a caliph?
100
South most tip of Europe
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
100
opposing groups who challenged the Abbasid's rule
What is a faction?
200
A family of blood related people also by marriage
What is a clan?
200
a building used for muslim worship
What is a mosque?
200
People who accepted the Umayyads and the elected caliphs
What are Sunnis?
200
a system of government that is carried out by agencies and departments
What is a bureaucracy?
200
A soldier paid to fight
What is a mercenary?
300
The journey to a sacred place
What is pilgrimage?
300
considered "People of the Book" by muslims
What are Jews and Christians?
300
means the "party" of ali
What is the Shi'a?
300
A fighting force
What is a standing army?
300
The new capital changed by al-Andalus
What is Cordoba?
400
A company of travelers journeying together
What is a caravan?
400
It is a written book collected by Muhammad's followers
What is the Qur'an?
400
Muslim Troops who rode camels, were highly skilled and relinquished much of the territory for Allah
What is the Muslim Army?
400
a period when a culture or society is at it's peak
What is a golden age?
400
The man who declared himself the emir in 756
Who is al-Andalus?
500
The belief in one god (Allah)
What is monotheism
500
It is Muhammad's words and deeds
What is the Sunnah?
500
They paid a poll tax so that they didn't have to battle
What special treatment did the "People of the Book" get?
500
the art of fine handwriting of the Abbasids
What is calligraphy?
500
a book that tells the story of the jewish exodus
What is the Haggadah?