Middle East And Islam Flashcards
Explain a Sand dune.
Huge mountains created by sand and win. Can rise eight hundred feet high and can stretch for hundreds of miles.
What is an oasis?
A wet, fertile area in the desert under the main stop for traders.
What are the two ways of life in the middle east?
The nomadic and the sedentary.
What is a nomad?
People traveling in herds in search of food and water for their animals such as goats and camel.
Why did nomads form tribes?
For Protection
Who are sedentary people?
People who farm in a and build homes on an oasis.
Why is Mecca important to the Muslims?
It is where Muhammed lived.
Why did Muhhammed go to cave in Mecca?
Because he was concerned that the wealthy citizens of Mecca were not helping the poor.
What do Muhammed’s messages form the basis of?
Islam.
What does the word Islam mean?
To Submit to God
Where were Muhammad’s messages collected?
In the Qur’an.
What is the difference between Islam and a Muslim?
Islam is a religion, a Muslim is someone who believes in the Islamic faith.
What is a mosque?
A building for Muslim prayer.
Define the Qur’an.
A book that describes acts of worship, guidelines for moral behavior, and rules for social and daily life.
What does monotheistic mean?
A religion that believes in one God
What are the three monotheistic religions?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
What is the main teaching of Islam?
There’s only one god named Alla and Muhhammed is his prophet.
What is a jihad?
The inner struggle people go through in their effort to a big God and obey according to the Islamic ways.
When did the Muslims and areas of Arabia begin to conquer their neighbors to gain land?
After Mhuhammed’s death
What were the rules the Muslim set up for non-Muslims?
You cannot go places of worship and cannot dress like a Muslim.
Only Christians and Jews could practice their own religion.
Why did Islam spread so easily?
Trade.
Where is Arabia located?
In between Asia and Africa and Europe
True or false, Muslims excepted other faiths.
True.
What also help to convert people to Islam other than trading?
They also believed in God and Abraham and knew about Jesus.
What is the climate of Arabia?
Hot and dry air with deserts, sand dunes, and oasis’s.
