Islamic Study Guide
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| What type of landform covers most of the interior of Arabia? | Desert
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| What benefits did belonging to a tribe offer nomads? | Protection
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| What made Arabia an important center for trade and commerce? | It's the crossroads
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| What was an important Muslim achievement in medicine? | The first pharmacy school
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| What made it possible for people to live a sedentary life in the Arabian Desert? | Towns around oases
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| Why did Muhammad often go to the hills outside Mecca to pray and meditate? | He was upset about the changing values in Mecca
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| What was a Muslim contribution to math? | algebra
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| Two major cities of Islamic culture and learning were: | Baghdad and Cordoba
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| Which city did Muslims control by 661: | Damascus
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| A call goes out from a mosque five times a day for the Muslims to do what? | pray
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| Which of Muhammad's daughters' husbands became known as the second leader of Islam? | Ali
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| What are some of the keys to the expansion of the Ottoman Empire: | *major world power: conquered Syria and Egypt *Ottoman Army * Mehmed "The Conqueror" made Istanbul the new capital *Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque
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| How did Islam spread? | Warfare, trade and treaties
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| Muslims split into what two groups after a disagreement about who should succeed as caliph? | Sunni and Shia's
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| Why did Muslims make treaties with non-Muslims? | To offer protection and list rules for its conquered peoples.
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| How did the Muslims treat Jews and Christians? | With respect, they could practice their own religion but could not build a church and had to pay a fine.
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| How did the Arabian region have contact with other civilizations? | warfare, trade, and treaties
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| How did the Ottoman society treat women? | Limited their freedom, separated them from the men into harems
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| What refers to the way Muhammad lived, which provides a model for the duties and the way of life expected of Muslims? | Sunnah
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| People who moved from place to place with their animals live this way of life. | Nomads
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| What area of study did scholars make great contributions: | medicine
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| Within a few years of Muhammad's death, Islam spread to: | Central Asia
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| Muslim scientist invented these, which the Greeks had invented to look at the stars: | astrolabe
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| He was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet who wrote a book of poems known as The Rubaiyat: | Omar Khayyam
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| Abraham: | Person considered a prophet in the Judaism, Christianity and Islam religions
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| Baghdad: | A center of Muslim culture and learning that was an early capital of Islam
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| Caliph: | the title of the highest leader of Islam
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| Cordoba: | City in what is now Spain that was a major center of Muslim culture and learning
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| Istanbul: | Once Constantinople ~ new capital of Ottoman Empire
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| Medina: | City to which Muhammad fled from Mecca
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| Mosque: | A building for Muslim prayer
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| Mughal: | Muslim empire in India
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| Muhammad: | Founder of the Muslim religion
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| Qur'an: | The holy book of Islam
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| Shariah: | The system of Islamic law
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| Shia: | Muslims who believe that only members of Muhammad's family would become the head of Islam
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| Suleyman I: | The greatest Ottoman emperor under whom the empire reached its peak
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