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Beginnings of Islam
Beliefs and Practices
Spread of Islam
Daily Life and Contributions
Miscellaneous
100
Muslims believe that this man received a vision to preach Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
100
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
100
In the early A.D. 700s, Islam spread to this European country.
What is Spain?
100
A Muslim house of worship.
What is a mosque?
100
A Muslim leader
What is a caliph?
200
This city is the birthplace of Islam.
What is Mecca (or Makkah)?
200
The two major branches of Islam.
What are Sunni and Shia?
200
This powerful Ottoman sultan organized laws, established schools, and built Mosques during the 1500s.
Who is Suleiman I?
200
Shah Jahan built this tomb for his wife.
What is the Taj Mahal?
200
The reason that you won't find pictures of people or animals in Muslim buildings.
What is that Muslims are opposed to idol worship, which they interpret to be depictions of living creatures?
300
The main reason that the early followers of Islam moved to Madinah (Yathrib)?
What is that Mecca had become to dangerous, because the leaders thought that Muhammad was trying to destroy their authority?
300
According to shari'ah, these are two things that Muslims cannot do.
What are gamble, eat pork, or drink alcohol?
300
This group set up a Muslim empire in India.
Who were the Moguls (Mughals)?
300
Two contributions that Muslim culture made to the field of Science and Mathematics.
What are astronomical discoveries, the astrolabe, chemistry, algebra?
300
This group, backed by Shia Muslims, overthrew the Umayyad Dynasty.
Who were the Abbasids?
400
Two of the major reforms/ideas that Muhammad introduced to the people of Mecca.
What are worshiping one God, destroying statues, sharing wealth with the poor, doing good deeds, and preparing for the day of judgment?
400
The reason for the split into two separate branches of Islam.
What is that Muhammad left no heir? Sunnis support the rule of the Umayyads and Abu Bakr, while Shiites support the rule of Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali.
400
After gaining control of territories, Arabs were able to grow their empire by usually letting conquered people do this.
What is practice their own religion and customs?
400
The three occupations in the middle of the Muslim social pyramid.
What are artisans, farmers, and workers?
400
Three groups of people who held the most power at the top of the Muslim social pyramid.
Who were government leaders, landowners, and wealthy merchants?
500
Three ways that the physical geography and climate of the Arabian Peninsula shaped life.
What are deserts kept out attackers, the location between civilizations increased trade, towns sprung up around oases, camels became culturally important, and tribes formed to combat the harsh climate?
500
The five pillars of Islam:
What are belief, fasting, charity, prayer, pilgrimage?
500
Three types of people that helped Islam spread.
What are soldiers (through conquest), preachers (through education), and merchants (through trade)?
500
Three reasons why Muslim traders were successful.
What are the standardizing of Arabic as a language, Muslim rulers providing coins, merchants keeping detailed records, creating the banking industry, and merchants developing a trustworthy reputation?
500
Three contributions that Muslims made in the world of medicine.
What are the discovery of blood circulation to and from the heart, Al-Razi's diagnoses of diseases, Ibn Sina's production of the Canon of Medicine, a system of tests to practice medicine, the first medical schools and pharmacies, and medical clinics?