Ch. 10 x1
The Arabian Peninsula is a crossroads of which three continents?
Africa, Europe, Asia
What tribe of people known as Arabian nomads settled on the Arabian peninsula?
Bedouins
The Middle Ages lasted from ____________________________________.
500-1500
Monks lived in ___________.
Monasteries
The junior who has the same initials as the name Timmy Calhoun
Thomas
Muslims believe that there is one God, known as “________________.”
Allah
Who was the Muslim prophet?
Nuns lived in _____________
Convents
The leader of the Franks, _______________________, brought Christianity to the region and allied himself with the Church in Rome.
Clovis
The freshmen whose favorite fruit is a banana; also always writes a question of the day.
Everett
What was the name of the holy book of the Muslims?
Qur'an
The term _________________ means an armed struggle against unbelievers.
Jihad
In 590, Gregory I became pope and made the papacy a __________________, or worldly, power involved in politics.
secular
The average life expectancy for a peasant was….
35 years
The Junior that goes by Charlie
Bruce
In Arabic, _________ means “submission to the will of Allah.”
Islam
In Arabic, _________ means one who has submitted.”
Muslim
_________________________ were traveling poet-musicians at the castles and courts of Europe. They sang about love.
Troubadours
In Feudalism, a landowner (lord) granted land called a _________________ to his vassal.
Fief
The senior whose brother graduated from BMA in 2011
Ben
In the early 800s, a ___________________ opened in Baghdad. There scholars of different cultures worked together translating texts from Greece, India, Persia, and elsewhere into Arabic.
House of Wisdom
Those who resisted the Umayyads’ rule were known as __________________, meaning the “party” of Ali.
Sunni
This group was top on the social feudalism pyramid.
Kings
The ________________ invaded from the east, in what is now Hungary.
Magyars
The former staff member who retired after the 2019-2020 school year.
Mrs. Barker