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Potpurri
100
This is the Arabic word for God.
What is Allah?
100
The center of the Islamic civilization began here (name the geographic area)
What is the Arabian peninsula?
100
This was the capital city of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Byzantium?
100
Muslim marketplaces were called this.
What is a bazaar?
100
Muslims, Jews, and Christians shared a common belief in this.
What is one god?
200
This is the prophet in Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
200
This is a green area in the desert fed by underground water.
What is an oasis?
200
This was the first sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Who was Suleiman I?
200
Arab merchants are credited with inventing this industry.
What is banking?
200
True or False: Leaders of Bedouin tribes were called sheikhs.
True.
300
This is the name of the Islamic scriptures.
What is the Quran?
300
What covers most of the Arabian peninsula?
What is desert?
300
The name of a large palace that became a tomb built by the Mogul ruler Minan.
What is the Taj Mahal?
300
"Arabic numerals" actually came from this civilization.
Who are the Hindus?
300
This is the name of the tower on a mosque from which the call to prayer is given.
What is a minaret?
400
A Muslim house of worship is called this.
What is a mosque?
400
Which empire was located to the West of the Arabian Peninsula?
What was Egypt?
400
The Ottoman Empire eventually included parts of this modern European country.
What is Spain?
400
This was the language spoken through the Islamic empire.
What is Arabic?
400
There are this many "pillars" of Islam.
What is 5?
500
This is the sacred area where a stone from Heaven was believed to have fallen, the name of this large black box is
What is the Kabba?
500
This is the name of the geographic center of Islam, their holy city.
What is Mecca?
500
In the Ottoman Empire, if you were not a Muslim, you suffered this penalty.
What is paid a special tax?
500
A group of desert nomads who traveled from oasis to oasis were called this.
What are Bedouin?
500
After the death of Muhammad, the Muslim world split into these two groups.
What are the Shiites and the Sunni?