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History Chapter 10
chapter 10 vocab words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |