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Ch.10
Term | Definition |
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What are bedouins? | Arab nomads. |
What were the three holy cities? | Mecca, jerusulum,and medina. |
What was known as the hijrah? | A migration led by Muhammad from Mecca to yathrib. |
What were the five pillars? | Faith, prayer, alms, fasting, and pilgrimage. |
Why did Muhammad's teachings anger people in Mecca? | They feared people would abandon traditional gods. |
What do people believe about Muhammad? | He was the last and greatest of the prophets. |
What were caliphs? | They were successors of the prophet, leaders in Islamic culture. |
What did the Umayyads do? | They moved Islam capital to damascus. |
What did shi'a mean? | The party of Ali. |
Where did the Abbasids move the capital to? | Baghdad |
What to sea trading networks allowed Islamic trade through out the world? | Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean. |
What were the four social classes? | Upperclass, converts to Islam, then the protected people Jews, and Christians etc., and the the last which were slaves and prisoners etc. |
What was the basis of Arabic literature? | The Qur'an |
What was Islamic art? | They considered it calligraphy. |
Why did Muhammad not want a picture drawn of him? | Because he didn't want to be considered a god. |
What contributed to calligraphies popularity? | Muslim law prohibited the drawing of living beings. |
How did al-khwarizmi contribute to math and science? | He developed the study of algebra. |
Where women and men equal? | Yes, in gods eyes as long as they were believers. |
Who were infidels? | People who were non believers, and people who didn't pay taxes. |
What circumstances allowed Muslims to declare war? | If a non believer were to attack them. |
What ended the elective system of a caliph? | When uthman was assassinated. |
What did the caliphs use as guides to leader ship? | They used the Qur'an and Muhammad's actions. |
What were Muhammad's revelations? | Allah is the one god. |
What changes did the rightly guided caliphs make? | They expanded Arabia's control to 6000 miles and spread Islamic culture. |