Study Guide Flashcards
What is a Nomadic Lifestyle
The lifestyle of people who live a mobile existence. Nomads are hunters, gatherers, animal herders , craftsmen, and traders.
What is an Irrigation
A supply to land or crops to help with growth.
What is are Migration Patterns
People in search of safety, food, and shelter. Migration can be either international, when people move from one country to another, or when they move within a given region or country.
What are Caravans?
Caravans were a group of people traveling together across the deserts of Asia and North Africa. They typically used camels for travel.
What are Trade Centers?
Trade is the exchange of goods and services by sale or barter. It is driven both by the need for resources and by the amount of resources that a trader has. Ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea supported a huge growing trade in all of goods, including textiles, agricultural products, and wine.
What are Terraces ?
Terrace is a method of growing crops on the sides of hills or mountains. To do this, people grade the steep land into a series of level terraces or benches. After channels are dug on the terraces to carry off excess water, crops can be grown successfully.
What is Mecca?
Mecca is a city in western Saudi Arabia. Mecca is the holiest city in all of Islam but before ,the city was just an oasis along a caravan trade route connected to South Arabia, East Africa, and South Asia to the Mediterranean countries.
What is Medina?
Medina is a sacred city to Muslims. It is located on an oasis in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and is about 275 miles from Mecca. In 622 CE Muhammad escaped to Mecca with his friend Abu Bakr and headed to Medina.
What is an oasis?
An oasis is a fertile region of land in the middle of a desert supplied by a regular source of fresh water. The water supply is usually underground in a structure. Oases can vary in size from about 2.5 acres to regions that are large enough for crops to grow and export.
Kaaba
The Kaaba, also spelled Ka’bah, is a cube-shaped shrine located in the center of the Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred spot on Earth for Muslims, or people who follow the religion of Islam. Muslims believe that this shrine was built by Abraham called the Black Stone of Mecca.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
The Five Pillars of Islam are five duties that every Muslim is supposed to carry out. Muslims are people who practice Islam, and these duties were first described by Muhammad, the founder of Islam. The first of the Five Pillars is shahādah, which is the Muslim profession of faith.The second of the Five Pillars is salat, which is daily ritual prayer.The third of the Five Pillars is zakat, which is a tax that Muslims are supposed to pay once a year.The forth of the Five Pillars is swam or fasting.The fifth pillar is the hajj, which is a religious pilgrimage, or journey, to the Kaaba.
What is the Sunnah?
Sunnah, also known as Sunni Islam, is one of the two main branches of the religion of Islam. Its followers are known as Sunnites
What is the Quran?
The Quran is the sacred scripture of Islam. Muslims, people who practice Islam, believe the Quran is the word of Allah, or God, which was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the archangel Gabriel. Muhammad is the founder of Islam. According to Muslims he had a series of revelations from God and wrote many of these down as the Quran.
Caliph
A caste system arranges people into hereditary groups within a society. This means a person is born into a particular caste, and this caste determines who the person can marry, what job the person can take, and what rank the person holds in society.
Caliphate
The caliphate was the Islamic state and its lands, which were ruled by a caliph, or successor to Muhammad. It spanned centuries, beginning with the death of Muhammad in 632 and ending in 1258.
