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Social studies 2015
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| social science | a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. |
| Historian | an expert in or student of history, especially that of a particular period |
| Founder of Islam | Muhammad |
| Islam | the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad |
| Prophet | a person who speaks for God |
| civilization of Islam. | Arab merchant called Muhammad founded a new religion called Islam. His teachings inspired the Arab peoples |
| koran | the Quran is the central religious text of Islam |
| mecca | Mecca, is Islam’s holiest city, as it’s the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad |
| Ka'ba | small, cubical building in the courtyard of the Great Mosque at Mecca containing a sacred black stone: regarded by Muslims as the House of God and the objective of their pilgrimages. |
| Muhammad | Muhammad is considered in Islam to be the greatest messenger and prophet sent by God |
| Muslims | a follower of the religion of Islam. |
| Qur'ar | he sacred text of Islam, |
| trade routes | one of the sea-lanes ordinarily used by merchant ships. |
| Khadijah | the first wife of the Prophet Mohammed |
| monotheism | Worship of one god |
| polytheism | belief in more than one god |
| night journey | the journey through the heavens made by Muhammad, guided by the archangel Gabriel. They flew first to Jerusalem, where Muhammad prayed with earlier prophets including Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, before entering the presence of Allah in heaven. |
| people of the book | Jews and Christians as regarded by Muslims. |
| Shunnah | the verbally transmitted record of the teachings, deeds and sayings, silent permissions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as various reports about Muhammad's companions. |
| Mosques | a Muslim place of worship. |
| five pillars of faith | shahada (confession of faith), salat (prayer), zakat (almsgiving), sawm (fasting, especially during the month of Ramadan), and hajj (the pilgrimage to Mecca). |
| pilgrimage | a pilgrim's journey. |
| jihad | (among Muslims) a war or struggle against unbelievers. |
| Shari'a | law, seen as deriving from the Koran, hadith, ijmaʿ, and qiyas. |
| shahadah | s an Islamic creed declaring belief in the oneness of God and the acceptance of Muhammad as God's prophet. |
| zakat | is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, mandatory for all Muslims. Zakat is not a charitable contribution, and is considered as a tax. |
| salat | the ritual prayer of Muslims, performed five times daily in a set form. |
| siyam | 3rd pillar is fasting |
| hajj | the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, and that all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime. |
| external jihad | internal as well as external efforts to be a good Muslims or believer, as well as working to inform people about the faith of Islam. |
| internal jihad | much more than holy war. Muslims use the word Jihad to describe three different kinds of struggle: A believer's internal struggle to live out the Muslim faith as well as possible |
| imam | is an Islamic leadership position. It is most commonly in the context of a worship leader of a mosque and Muslim community by Sunni Muslims. |
| Social studies | Subject learning about the past, present and future. |
| 10 commandments | are a set of commandments which the Bible describes as having been given to the Israelites by God |
| Abraham | plays a prominent role as an example of faith in Judaism, Christianity, Islam |
| Apostles/disiples | Messenger for God |
| bible | Christianity holly text |
| christianity | the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices. |
| culture diffusion | The spread of culture |
| diaspora | Jews living outside Israel. |
| Hebrews/Israelite | a member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel |
| Jesus | Son of God |
| Judaism | is an ancient monotheistic religion, with the Torah as its foundation text |
| Missionary | a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. |
| monotheism | worship of one god |
| persecution | hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs. |
| religion | organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. |
| Torah | the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures |
| Church | a building used for public Christian worship. |
| convent | a promise |
| Crucifixion | a form of slow and painful execution in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang for several days until eventual death from exhaustion |
| gospels | are a genre of Early Christian literature claiming to recount the life of Jesus, to preserve his teachings, or to reveal aspects of God's nature. |
| greatest commandment | Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind |
| holy trinity | the Christian Godhead as one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. |
| Jerusalem | the birthplace of Jesus Christ |
| Kosher | (of food, or premises in which food is sold, cooked, or eaten) satisfying the requirements of Jewish law. |
| Messiah | the promised deliverer of the Jewish nation prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. |
| Moses | Moses is a prophet in Abrahamic religions |
| New testament | The life before Jesus |
| Parables | a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. |
| Prophets | Messenger of God |
| Rabbi | a Jewish scholar or teacher |
| Resurrection | the action or fact of resurrecting or being resurrected. |
| Sabbath | a day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jews from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday. |
| synagogue | the building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction. |
| Yahweh | a form of the Hebrew name of God used in the Bible. |
| Republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. |
| dictatorship | government by a dictator. |
| democracy | a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. |
| fascim | an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. |
| theocracy | a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained. |
| oligarchy | |
| monarchy vs constitutional monarchy | |
| emirate | |
| GDP | |
| GDP per capita | |
| Human capital |
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