This is the term given to the first four Caliphs after Muhammed.
What is the "Rightly Guided"
100
This was the name given to the journey Muhammad took when he was driven out of Mecca.
What is Hijrah
100
The Abbasids used this to help them hold on to power, it is kept in times of peace and war.
What is a Standing Army
100
This is the holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
200
These are the people who follow Islam.
Who are Muslims
200
This family group took over Islam and created a hereditary dynasty.
Who are Umayyads ?
200
The Umayyad leader Abd al-Malik did these two things to help unify the empire.
What is create a common language and coin
200
The Abbasids used to this to decorate everything from buildings to swords and armor.
What is Calligraphy.
200
These are the five duties all muslims must perform to demostrate there submission to the will of God.
What is the Five Pillars of Islam?
300
He is believed to have been visited by the Angel Gabriel and given the word of Allah.
Who is Muhammed?
300
This group of muslims believed that only a decendant of Muhammed or Ali should be the Caliph.
Who are the Shi'a or Shiites?
300
This is what a journey to a sacred place is called.
What is a pilgrimage.
300
This is a period of time where a society or culture is at its peak.
What is a Golden Age?
300
These areas in the desert were very important to the nomadic people who lived in the harsh climate because they supplied water and often allowed them to settle down and begin trading with other travelers
What is an Oasis?
400
Muslims called these groups the "people of the book"
Who are Jews and Christians?
400
These people took control from the Umayyads by inviting them to a peace treaty and then assasinating all but one of them.
Who are the Abbasids?
400
This was used to create a system of laws and as a guide for proper living for muslims.
What is the Sunnah?
400
The Abbasids moved the capital of the Empire from Damascus to this place in the East.
What is Baghdad?
400
This was the capital for the new Umayyad empire in the West.
What is Cordoba
500
The leader of Islam is given this title.
What is Caliph?
500
He is the one Umayyad leader who fled to the Iberian Peninsula after the Abbasid massacred the others.
Who is Abd al Rahman?
500
This form of government system was used by the Umayyads to make the empire easier to govern.
What is a bureaucracy?
500
Omar Khayyam contributed to society by using his skills in these two areas.
What is poetry and math?
500
Al-zahrawi became famous for a book he wrote that helped make great advancements in this Field of work.