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WKMS Ch. 11 Vocab.
Review of vocabulary and people for the Ch. 11 test!
Question | Answer |
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Green area fed by underground water in the desert. | oasis |
Caravan | A group of traveling merchants and animals |
Holy book of Islam | Quran |
Head of a tribe | sheikh |
a desert herder who went from place to place | Bedouin |
open air marketplace, typically in the center of the city | bazaar |
mosque | Muslim houses of worship |
crier | a person who tells people to pray five times a day |
Al-Razi | best known Muslim chemist |
a tower from which believers are called to prayer | minaret |
Taj Mahal | famous tomb in India built by Shah Jahan for his favorite wife |
Muslims, Jews, and Christians believe in _____________. | one god |
Founder of Islam | Muhammad |
The ___________________ Empire allowed religious freedom. | Ottoman |
The 2 main groups of Muslims | Sunni and Shi'ite |
The ______________ were threatened by Islam's teachings. | rich |
The _____________________ were rulers who obeyed Islam's teachings. | Rightly Guided Caliphs |
Muslims must pray ___________ times a day. | 5 |
Ibn Sina | Persian doctor who showed how diseases spread from person to person. |
The most important contribution of Muslim scholars was to _________________________. | preserve ancient learning |
List 3 examples of famous Muslim literature. | Rubaiyat, Quran, Arabian Nights |
The Arabian Peninsula is primarily composed of what geographical feature? | desert |
________________ believed the Ummayads should rule. | Sunni |
______________ believed that descendants of Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law, should rule. | Shi'ite |