Chapter 12 Vocabulary

Question 1

Oasis

Answer 1

A wet fertile area in a desert.

Question 2

Caravan

Answer 2

A group of traders that travel together.

Question 3

Muhammad

Answer 3

A man that brought a new religion to Arabia.

Question 4

Islam

Answer 4

The messages Muhammad received form the basis of the religion called Islam.

Question 5

Muslim

Answer 5

A follower of Islam.

Question 6

Qur’an

Answer 6

The holy book of Islam.

Question 7

Pilgrimage

Answer 7

A journey to a sacred place.

Question 8

Mosque

Answer 8

Building for Muslim prayer.

Question 9

Jihad

Answer 9

To make an effort, or to struggle.

Question 10

Sunnah

Answer 10

Refers to the way Muhammad lived, which provides a model for the duties and the way of life expected of Muslims.

Question 11

Five pillars of Islam

Answer 11

Five acts of worship required of all Muslims.

Question 12

Abu Bakr

Answer 12

One of Muhammad’s first converts.

Question 13

Caliph

Answer 13

A title that Muslims use for the highest leader of Islam.

Question 14

Tolerance

Answer 14

Acceptance.

Question 15

Janissaries

Answer 15

Slave soldiers that converted to Islam and became fierce warriors.

Question 16

Mehmed II

Answer 16

Led ottomans in 1453.

Question 17

Suleyman I

Answer 17

Ruled from 1520-1566 and the Ottoman Empire reached its height under him.

Question 18

Shia

Answer 18

Muslims who thought that only Muhammads’s descendants could become caliphs.

Question 19

Sunni

Answer 19

Didn’t think caliphs had to be related to Muhammad.

Question 20

Ibn Battutah

Answer 20

The explorer that traveled to Africa, India, China, and Spain in the 1320’s.

Question 21

Sufism

Answer 21

Spiritual issues leading to a movement called Sufism.

Question 22

Patrons

Answer 22

Sponsors.

Question 23

Minaret

Answer 23

Narrow tower from where Muslims are called to prayer.

Question 24

Calligraphy

Answer 24

Decorative writing.

Question 25

Influence

Answer 25

The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself.

Question 26

Development

Answer 26

The process of developing or being developed.

2. The process of starting to experience or suffer from an ailment or feeling.