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History Chapter 10
chapter 10 vocab words
Term | Definition |
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Bedouins | Arab nomads |
Black Stone | A "sacred" meteorite |
Allah | the Arabic word for god |
Hegira | Mohammed's flight from mecca |
Jihad | HOLY WAR |
Islam | name derived from the Arabic word for surrender |
Muslims | name derived from the Arabic word for surrender |
Koran | recitation |
caliphs | Mohammed's successors |
crusades | Europe's version of jihads |
Arabia | A huge peninsula in the middle east |
Ishmael | Abraham's first son |
Medina | the city |
Yathrib | the city where Mohammed and his followers fled |
Jews | Descendants of Abraham's second son , Isaac |
Battle of tours | The battle in A.D. 732 that checked the Muslim advance into western Europe |
pilgrimage | journey to the holy land |
Urban II | the pope that authorized the crusades |
1054 | the year the catholic church officially split |
1100- 1300 | the years during which the crusades occured |
Mohammed II | leader of the ottoman Turks |