Crusades
What two groups fought in the Crusades?
Christians and Muslims
What faith was Richard the Lionheart?
Christian
The new form of mathematics invented by a Muslim scholar.
What is Algebra?
A popular game of strategy played throughout the Muslim world.
What is Chess?
Why did Christians start the Crusades?
They wanted to reclaim the Holy Land, Jerusalem.
What is the term for prejudice towards Jews?
Anti-Semitism
Medical sites designed to care for the sick, which were first established by Muslims.
What are hospitals?
Which European group increased their power because of the Crusades?
European monarchs
What type of writing was the only type of writing that many Muslims believed worthy of the Qur' an.
Calligraphy
The fifth Pillar of Islam in which Muslims make a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca.
What is Hajj?
The area of study that Muslim scholars improved upon through their use of the compass and the astrolabe.
What is geography and navigation?
What group of people's taking control of Palestine made Europeans fear that travel in that region was unsafe for them.
Seljuk Turks
The Crusades were a terrible ordeal for many Muslims; however, what was one way Muslims were positively impacted by the Crusade.
Many developed profitable trade businesses with Europe.
The area of study which helped Muslims locate the direction of Mecca, tell the exact time for prayer, and know the length of the month of Ramadan.
What is astronomy?
On what peninsula did the Reconquista take place?
Iberian Peninsula
What were the names of 3 important cities, that were Muslim centers of learnings?
Baghdad, Cairo, and Cordoba
The magnificent city that took 100,000 architects and 4 years to build.
What is Baghdad?
The ninth and most holy month of the Islamic calendar.
What is Ramadan?