Bedouin Life
Arabian Peninsula
Muhammad
Muslim Beliefs
The Spread of Islam/The Gold Age of Islam
100

People who have no permanent home but move from place to place in search of food, water or pasture.

What are nomads?

100

A city that was a center for trade.

What is Mecca?

100

Where Muhammad was born.

What is Mecca?

100

The Arabic word for God.

What is Allah?

100

How Islam originally spread.

What is through trade and conquest?

200

Traveling across the desert in large groups.

What is a caravan?

200

Much of the Arabian Peninsula is covered in this.

What is a desert?

200

The first city to regard Muhammad as a prophet.

What is Medina (Yathrib).

200

The amount of times Muslims are expected to pray.

What is five times a day?

200

How long The Golden Age of Islam lasted.

What is 300 years.

300

Following traditional routes from one oasis to another.

How did Bedouins make their way across the desert?
300

This supported the growth of towns. 

What is trade with neighboring people.

300

The original name for Medina.

What is Yathrib?

300

House of worship for Muslims.

What is a mosque?

300

The capital of the Muslim empire during the golden age.

What is Baghdad?

400

Animals herded by Bedouins.

What are sheep, camels and goats?

400

Another way to get supplies or animals other than trade.

What is raiding villages or other tribes.

400

Because he was troubled by what he saw in society.

Why did Muhammad go for walk in the mountains?

400

The direction Muslims are expected to pray.

What is towards Mecca?

400

What are the subjects Islamic scholars made advancements in.

What are mathematics, science and literature?

500

Responsible for tents.

Who are Bedouin women?

500

Caravans traveled from Mecca to what is now this country.

What is Syria?

500

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?

500

Basic Muslim beliefs.

What are The Five Pillars?

500

Muslims who believed that they could grow close to God through prayer, fasting and a simple life.

Who are Sufis?