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L21-39 KeyTerms&Pple

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Umayyads   a dynasty that ruled for 90 years  
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Berbers   people that lived in Northern Africa that converted to Islam and helped the empire move forward  
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Visigoths   a catholic member of the Goths  
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Charles Martel   Attacked the Muslims with his army of Franks  
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Franks   French  
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jizya   a head tax Christians and Jews had to pay  
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Talmud   the collection of Jewish law and tradition  
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bureaucracy   many different departments managed by workers appointed by the caliph or his representatives  
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zakat   2.5 percent charity tax paid by Muslims  
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emir   governors appointed directly by the caliph  
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rabbi   a Jewish teacher  
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synagogue   a Jewish temple  
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Torah   the Jewish Bible  
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Arabic   the Arab language  
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Abd al Malik   a Muslim caliph that helped shape an influential Muslim culture: UMAYYAD CALIPH  
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Abd al Rahman   founder of Umayyad Dynasty in Cordoba  
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Abbasids   family able to gain control of the Muslim Empire in the east  
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Baghdad   the new capital of the Muslim Empire  
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corriander   a plant used for medicinal powers  
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calligraphy   the art of fine handwriting; such as that practiced in Muslim art and writing  
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Tigris and Euphrates   rivers around Baghdad  
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algebra   a type of mathematics named after one of al Khwarizmi's books al jabr  
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House of Wisdom   a school in Baghdad  
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Mesopotamia   a country between two rivers (Tigris & Euphrates) that held the new Muslim capital  
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factions   opposing groups  
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arabesque   floral designs  
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Caliph al Ma'mun   founded the "House of Wisdom"  
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Avicenna   Ibn Sina: a leading Abbasid figure of medicine  
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Turks   people from Central Asia  
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ar-Razi   a Persian-born physician that wrote the first accurate description of smallpox and measels  
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Seljuk   a warrior  
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Abu Jafar al Mansur   moved the capital of the Muslim Empire from Damascus to Baghdad  
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al Khwarizmi   famous Abbasid mathematician  
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Fatimids   the descendants of Muhammad's daughter Fatima  
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Cordoba   ancient Roman City  
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Ladino   the Saphardic language  
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Great Mosque   The third largest mosque in the world  
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Aragon and Castille   the combined kingdoms of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella  
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Sephardic   a Jewish-Spanish culture  
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legacy   gift  
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Reconquest   when Christians took over part of Spain  
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Abd al Rahman III   The first Umayyad ruler of Spain  
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Abbas ibn Firnas   the first visiting scholar that came to teach music but began to explore the mechanics of flight  
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Moses Maimomides   a famous writer of Muslim Spain  
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Ferdinand and Isabella   the people that reconquered Spain and expelled Jews  
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Sahara   a desert in North Africa  
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Niger River   a river in W Africa, rising in S Guinea, flowing NE through Mali, and then SE through Nigeria into the Gulf of Guinea  
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savanna   a region of grasslands containing scattered trees and vegetation  
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Jenne-jeno   a city located in the country of Mali  
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sahel   a region known as "shore of the desert"  
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Nok   a city in present day Nigeria; The first West Africans to make iron  
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Senegal River   helped communication and transport in Ghana  
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Ghana Wangara   a part of Ghana with fields of gold  
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Mali   a country in West Africa  
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Koumbi Maghreb   a region ruled by the Berbers  
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matrilineal   throne given to nephew from sister  
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patrilineal   the throne given from father to son  
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Soninke Mandinke   people who descend from the Bafour and are closely related to the Imraguen of Mauritania  
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Almoravids   were a Berber dynasty of Morocco  
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Sanhaja Tuareg   one of the largest Berber tribal confederations of the Maghreb  
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Sumanguru   a king of Ghana, Africa  
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griot   an African storyteller  
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Timbuktu   a city in Africa; another trade center  
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Niana   Mali's capital  
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Gao   a city along the Niger River, the capital of the new Songhai Empire  
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Sundiata   a king of Mali, Africa  
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Mansa Musa   Mali's greatest ruler  
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Ibn Battuta   a north-African writer  
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Askia Muhammad   overthrew Sunni Ali's son and became king of the Songhai Empire, named Islam state religion  
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Songhai   a new empire out of Mali ruled by Sunni Ali  
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Sunni Ali   the first king of the Songhai Empire  
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Judar Pasha   Muslim Spaniard that took people into battle to conquer Songhai  
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millet   a wheat like grain  
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diviners   helped people interact with gods; communicated with the spirit world; had healing powers  
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clan   a group of close-knit and interrelated families  
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sorghum   a kind of grain; Sorghum is a genus of plants in the grass family  
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kinship   blood relationship  
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cassava   the starchy tuberous root of a tropical tree, used as food in tropical countries but requiring careful preparation to remove traces of cyanide from the flesh.  
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indigenous   native  
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ancestor worship   a way to honor relatives that they believe spirits are believed to have the power to intervene in the affairs of the living.  
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manioc   another term for cassava.  
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ethnolinguistics   the study of various people through their languages  
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anopheles mosquito   causes malaria breeds in areas with standing water  
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tsetse fly   flies that could infect both humans and cattle with a fatal illness.  
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migrated Bantu   people from a village in Africa that moved to resettle  
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Khoikhoi   a non-Bantu people whose language sounds like a series of clicks; herd cattle  
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San   a non-Bantu people whose language sounds like a series of clicks; forced out of normal hunting grounds  
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