Islamic World
Islam is a ________ religion. One god.
monotheistic
Sahara
"Middle America"
What is the name of Japan's warrior knight?
samurai
this Germanic barbarian group conquered Britain after the Romans left
Anglo-Saxons
Who is the prophet of Islam?
Muhammad
What religion spread from N. Africa into Western Africa?
Islam
What great central Mexican civilization had a capital of Tenochtitlan?
Aztec
Japan is a series of major and minor islands called an
archipelago
Beowulf
The holy book of Islam is the _______.
Quran
What two goods were the primary trade goods of the Trans-Sahara trade routes?
Salt and Gold
Describe how the Maya organized themselves politically.
broken into city-states, each with its own king
What is the native religion of Japan?
Shinto
The Vikings were from the region of ___________ and attacked Europe via their longships.
Scandinavia
List the 5 Pillars of Islam
1. Shahada (profession of faith)
2. Alms to the poor
3. Fast during Ramadan
4. Pray 5 times per day facing Mecca
5. Pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj)
Who was the great West African king that was made famous by his trip (hajj) to Mecca ?
Mansa Musa
How did the Aztec farm their island capital? What did they build?
Chinampas
both were feudal societies
The Normans contributed the idea of _______ to England...a model for our Congress in later centuries.
Parliament
Describe WHY Abbasids and the House of Wisdom contributed to the Golden Age of Islam.
Baghdad's central location brought scholars from all over the Islamic world, translation movement preserved and spread classical texts, trade routes crossed through Baghdad
Name all of the African civilizations we studied:
West (3)
East (1)
South (1)
West - Ghana, Mali, Songhai
East - Axum / Ethiopia
South - Great Zimbabwe
How did the Inca farm their mountainous terrain and what crop was only found in their region of the Americas?
terrace farming, potatoes
What was the major cultural contributions of Chinese civilization to Japan?
Describe how the both the Black Death and Hundred Years War contributed to the decline of feudalism in Europe.
longbows and crossbows make knights obsolete, massive loss of life made peasant labor valuable...beginning of the end of "serfdom", gunpowder weapons make castles obsolete