Unit 3 (part 1)
separates the Arabian Peninsula from Iran and has a significant amount of oil
What is the Persian Gulf?
Prophet who founded Islam
Who is Mohammad?
Honoring a family member who lived in the past
What is ancestor worship?
warm ocean current that helps much of Europe have a mild climate
What is the North Atlantic Drift?
conflict between who chooses church officials
What was between the Papacy and the European monarchs?
important water trade route to connect to the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Black Sea?
Islam and the Arabic language spread because
What is conquest, conversion, and tolerance?
What are Djenne and Timbuktu?
preserved knowledge by copying and caring for ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts
What are monasteries/monks?
Crusaders attempted to claim
What was the Holy Land?
important water trade route among Africa, Asia, and Europe
What is the Red Sea?
Five Pillars of Islam
What are faith, prayer, giving, fasting, pilgrimage?
contributions of griots (3)
What are oral histories; memorized dates, places and people; served as ambassadors between villages?
(Feudalism) nobles gave land to lesser nobles in exchange for...
What is loyalty and military service?
Muslim leader who took back the city of Jerusalem
Who was Saladin?
world's largest body of water not connected to another source of water, similar to a lake
What is the Caspian Sea?
ruler who changed name of Constantinople to Istanbul
Who is Mehmed II the Conqueror?
built mosques and libraries; invited architects and scholars to Mali
Who was Mansa Musa?
unified England after winning the Battle of Hastings in 1066
Who was William the Conqueror?
Defeated the Muslims in the 3rd Crusade
Who was King Richard the Lionhearted?
Islam is a ___________________ religion.
What is monotheistic?
ruler of Ottoman Empire during its "Golden Age"
Who was Suleyman the Magnificent?
paid for construction of ______ every time he stopped on his pilgrimage
What is a mosque?
accomplishments of Magna Carta (3)
What were limiting power of monarchy, establish rule of law, right to trial by jury?
Called for a Crusade to recapture the Holy Land
Who was Pope Urban II?