Chapter 9 (pt 1) The Muslim Caliphate Flashcards
What is Caliphate?
An Islamic state that is officially Muslim, supposed to encompass every Muslim on earth 🌍
What is monotheism?
The belief that there is only one god
What is a crusade?
A series of medieval expeditions by the European to recover the “holy land” from the Muslims in the 11th-13th centuries
What is algebra the Arab translation
The reunion of broken parts
What was the renaissance?
A period following the Middle Ages of European artistic, literature, political and economical “rebirth”. A renewed interest in something
What happened at the beginning of the middle ages?
Western Europe fell into a period of chaos and restructuring
Who was born at the beginning of the Middle Ages?
a man named Muhammad
Where was Muhammad born?
Mecca
What is Mecca known as today?
Saudi Arabia
Muhammad was born in _____ CE
570 CE
What happened in 610 CE
Muhammad was meditating in a cave above Mecca when legend has it that he was visited by an angel and told to record what was spoken to him (the caves name was Hira)
What was done with the revelations written by Muhammad?
They were put together to create a new religious text, the Quran
When did Muhammad die?
632 CE
What did the religion of Islam do?
United the warring Arab tribes
When was a new Islamic empire made?
120 years later