The 5 pillars
"There is no God but Allah..."
What is faith?
This is Islam's holy city.
What is Mecca?
What is Mecca?
This is where Muslims worship or pray.
What is a mosque?
After an Islamic empire closed this, Europeans were driven towards exploration.
What is the Silk Road?
Done 5 times a day facing towards Mecca
What is prayer?
The middle east or southwest Asia is where it started.
What is the Muslim or Islamic religion?
Muhammed was this age when Gabriel appeared to him.
What is 40?
This is the Holy book of the Islamic religion.
This was the largest of the Muslim empires.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
If you are financially and physically able you must go on this to Mecca.
What is a pilgrimage?
The Arabian Peninsula is largely this climate.
What is desert?
Muhammed became convinced that he was the last of these after the visit from Gabriel.
What is the prophet or the the last prophet?
This means "submission to the will of God."
What is Islam?
This country spent years fighting Muslim invasions.
What is Spain?
Muslims do this during Ramadan to remind themselves that spiritual need is greater than physical.
What is fasting?
This trade route traveled through the Middle East with ideas and technology traveling with it.
What is the Silk Road?
When Muhammed returned to Mecca he was leading this many followers.
What is 10,000?
There are about 1.8 billion world wide.
What are follower of Islam?
What is Sunna?
Giving money to the poor
What are alms?
The middle east is a bridge between these three continents making diffusion happen at a rapid pace.
What are Africa, Asia, and Europe?
After facing some pushback in Mecca, Muhammed move here for a time.
What is Medina?
The Muslim world split into these two groups after disagreeing on several matters.
What are the Sunnis and the Shiites?
These were two of the major empires taken over by the Islamic state.
What is the Byzantine and Sassanid?