People who have no permanent home but move from place to place in search of food, water or pasture.
What are nomads?
A city that was a center for trade.
What is Mecca?
Where Muhammad was born.
What is Mecca?
The Arabic word for God.
What is Allah?
How Islam originally spread.
What is through trade and conquest?
Traveling across the desert in large groups.
What is a caravan?
Much of the Arabian Peninsula is covered in this.
What is a desert?
The first city to regard Muhammad as a prophet.
What is Medina (Yathrib).
The amount of times Muslims are expected to pray.
What is five times a day?
How long The Golden Age of Islam lasted.
What is 300 years.
Following traditional routes from one oasis to another.
This supported the growth of towns.
What is trade with neighboring people.
The original name for Medina.
What is Yathrib?
House of worship for Muslims.
What is a mosque?
The capital of the Muslim empire during the golden age.
What is Baghdad?
Animals herded by Bedouins.
What are sheep, camels and goats?
Another way to get supplies or animals other than trade.
What is raiding villages or other tribes.
Because he was troubled by what he saw in society.
Why did Muhammad go for walk in the mountains?
The direction Muslims are expected to pray.
What is towards Mecca?
What are the subjects Islamic scholars made advancements in.
What are mathematics, science and literature?
Responsible for tents.
Who are Bedouin women?
Caravans traveled from Mecca to what is now this country.
What is Syria?
Because they feared that Muhammad might gain political power and he threatened their old gods.
Why did the people of Mecca not originally convert to Islam?
Basic Muslim beliefs.
What are The Five Pillars?
Muslims who believed that they could grow close to God through prayer, fasting and a simple life.
Who are Sufis?