Culture
The leading city before Baghdad.
What is Damascus?
15 to 20% of Muslims.
What is Shia?
Giving to the poor.
What is Alms Giving?
'Striving" and can refer tho the inner struggle against evil
What is Jihad?
Mathematician born Baghdad in the late 700's
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
Population of the lowest class.
What are slaves?
Islamic house of worship.
What is a Mosque?
Muhammad is not God, but nearly a prophet.
What is faith?
Bank offered letters of credit
What is saak?
Al-Khwarizmi's Technique
What is al-jabr?
An early scientific instrument that could calculate time, celestial events, and relative position.
What is the astrolabe?
God in Arabic.
What is Allah?
You do this during Ramadan.
What is fasting?
the land network that connected china and India to Europe and Africa
what is the silk road
The Greatest physician of the Muslim world between A.D. 500 and 1500
Who is Al-Razi?
Astronomers used this tool to calculate time of day or year by aligning the rings with various stars.
What is the armillary sphere?
Pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is hajj?
Trip every year to the holy city of Mecca.
What is pilgrimage?
Two main sea networks.
what is the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean?
Art of beautiful hand writing
What is Calligraphy?
Raising the children, maintaining the house, and if poor working in fields.
What are the roles of women?
85 to 90% of Muslims.
What is Sunni?
Face towards Mecca and do this 5 times a day.
What is prayer?
"people of the book"
Who are the Jews and Christians?
Muslim art work that focuses on geometry
What is geometric patterns?