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ARABIA
MUHAMMAD
AFTER MUHAMMAD
THE CRUSADES
THE SPREAD OF ISLAM
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Bedouin
What is an Arabic nomad?
100
Muhammad received the first revelations that were eventually written down in the Quran
What is 610 C. E.?
100
They would have to share their booty and would have lost tax revenues
What is why did Arab warriors not want to convert large numbers of people to Islam?
100
Year the Jerusalem was captured by Christians
What is 1099?
100
Port cities were points of dissemination to other links in trading networks
What is spread of Islam in Southeast Asia?
200
They killed male descendents of the Umayyad Dynasty
What are the Berbers?
200
This transcended old tribal boundaries and made possible political unity among Arab clans
What is the principle advantage of the Islamic concept of the umma?
200
They recognized only Ali and the descendants of the family of Muhammad as rightful rulers
What is the Shi'a?
200
Saladin
What is the Muslim leader who captured most of the territories belonging to the Christian crusaders?
200
The most significant impact on sub-Saharan Africa between 800-1500
What is the arrival of Islam?
300
Clan responsible for the foundation of Mecca
What is the Umayyads?
300
Muhammad taught that his own revelations were a final refinement and reformulation of earlier ones
What is Muhammad's teachings with respect to the revelations of the other monotheistic religions?
300
"The Thousand and One Nights"
What is the fictional account of life at the court of the Caliph al-Rashid?
300
Muslim political fragmentation and the element of surprise
What are the reasons for the success of the First Crusade?
300
North Africa
What is the first region of Africa converted to Islam?
400
Religious shrine in Mecca
What is the Ka'ba?
400
Fasting during Ramadan, a confession of faith, Hajj, Charity, and frequent prayer
What are the "Five Pillars" of Islam?
400
Changes that occurred during the Abbasid period with respect to women
What is establishment of the harem?
400
The Holyland
What is Jerusalem?
400
Located between the Niger and Senegal rivers
What is location of the kingdom of Mali?
500
Animism and polytheism
What is the nature of pre-Islamic bedouin religion?
500
Greater Byzantine and Sasanian control over Arabic tribes of the peninsula and Arabic migration to Mesopotamia
What is the mounting pressure for change in pre-Islamic society?
500
They captured Baghdad in 1055
What is the Seljuk Turks?
500
Christians adopted military techniques, words, scientific learning, and Arabic numerals
What is the impact of the Crusades on the Christian west?
500
The Muslim concept of a ruler who united civil and religious authority
What is the reason Islam was so readily adopted by rulers in the Sudan?