Islam Flashcards
What way do the Muslims pray?
Towards Mecca
What is the name of a follower of Islam?
A Muslim
What is the importance of Mecca?
It is the city Muhammed was born and raised in.
Who is Muhammed?
The Muslims main profit
True or false, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam follow the same God?
True.
What is the Quran
The sacred book
What is a mosque?
Buildings for Muslim prayer.
What does Islam mean?
To submit to God.
What is the Quran?
The Islam Holy book.
What does the Quran include?
Describes acts of worship, guidelines for moral behavior, and rules for social and daily life.
Also describes relations between people.
True or false, Islam is polytheistic?
False, Islam believes in one God called Alla.
What did Muhammad prophesies?
The world has a beginning and an end, and at that end, Alla will judge us.
What happened if you did not obey Alla?
You would live in suffering.
What happened if you obeyed Alla.
You would love in paradise.
What is a Jihad?
The inner struggle people go through where God does not directly intervene.
What happened after Muhammad died?
Muslims in Arabia began conquering their neighbours.
What where the rules the Arabian Muslims set?
- you could not build places of worship
- you cannot dress like a Muslim.
- only Christians and Jews could practice their own religion.
Why did the Arabian Muslims make rules for non Muslims?
To make the non Muslims less then them.
Why did Islam spread so easily?
Trade routes. They traveled on the Silk Road.
How far did Islam spread?
All the way from Africa and Spain, to India and China.
What empire did Rome grow into?
The Byzantine Empire.
What was Constantinople renamed?
Byzantium.
What language did the Byzantines speak?
Greek.
Why did the Byzantines speak Greek?
Because how close Constantinople/Byzantium was to Greece.
Why was Byzantium so important to the Muslims?
The only way to get to Europe from Arabia or vice versa on land was to go through that city.
Ottoman Empire.
These questions are on the Ottoman Empire.
Who started the Ottoman Empire?
A group of Muslim Turks.
Who was Mehmed II, and why was he famous?
Conquered Byzantium and defeated the Byzantine Empire.
What was Mehmed II nicknamed?
The conquerer.
What did the city of Byzantium become?
Istanbul.
What are Janissaries?
Christian born boys from conquered villages who where converted to Islam.
Spread of Islam with the Byzantine empire.
After this point, all questions are on the Byzantine Empire
