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What is the fastest growing major religion in the world today?

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Islam

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Who is the last prophet of Allah?

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Muhammad

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What countries was Islam dominant in?

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Middle East, North Africa, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Niger

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Where did bedouins establish?

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The Arabian peninsula, they were nomadic, tribal, and polytheistic

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What is a Sheikh

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An Arab leader who ruled a community with consent of a tribal council

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What is polygyny

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Was a term referred to as in which a man has more than one wife at a time(this was a way to care for widows, whose husbands had died)

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What and where was the most revered sacred stone?

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A large black stone at the city of Mecca

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What were tribal values of the bedouins

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Honesty and generosity

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What caused water travel to become more popular than than Overland routes?

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When the Byzantine Empire and Sassanid empire stop fighting, and boats could transfer merchandise more easily than over land

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Who was Muhammad?

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He was the last prophet of Allah and was a caravan manager, married a rich widow, not worshiped as a divine

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When did Muhammad believe that he was the last prophet of Allah?

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c. 610

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When did Christopher Columbus sail?

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1492

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What is a widow?

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A woman who has lost her spouse by death and has not remarried

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How many years did it take Muhammed to gather 30 people to follow his beliefs

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Three

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In three years, how many people did Mohammed get to follow his beliefs?

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30

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Why did leaders in Mecca persecute Muhammad kin

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Because they rejected the idea that Mohammed was the agent of the one true deity, Allah

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What city did Mohammed and his followers escape to because of persecution and what was the fleeing called?

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City-Medina
Called-Hegira

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What did Mohammed do in Medina?

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He started the first Muslim community

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What was the Ka’ aba

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It was a shrine of Islam

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Was Islam expanded through military conquest?

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Yes

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What did non-Muslims have to do if they wanted to practice their religion in the Muslim territory

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They had to pay a tax to become exempt from military service and have the ability to practice their own religion

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22
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What are the Quran provide?

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Guidance and laws for the followers of Islam

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What were the five pillars?

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Believing in only one God(Allah), praying five times daily, giving to the poor, fasting during the month of Ramadan, journey/visit Mecca at least once in a lifetime

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What is jihad

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Strong struggle within oneself against sin or a struggle against the enemies of Islam

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Shariah

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Developed by Muslim scholars that was a code of law which outlined behavioral requirements

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What was the limit Mohammed put on polygyny

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Four wives

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27
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What other countries started to use the shariah

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Many parts of North Africa, Afghanistan

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Who is the first caliph after Muhammad’s death?

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Abu bakr, Who was supported by the sunnis, Ali, who lost later became the fourth caliph, who was supported by the Shiites

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What does the term Dar al-Islam mean

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All of Islamic culture, including the sunnis and the Shiites

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Who assumed power after Ali was assassinated

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Generals and armies, and a network of merchants from Mecca, they founded the Umayyad dynasty

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Where did the Umayyad dynasty move the capital?

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Damascus

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32
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Damascus fell into what group

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The Abbasids, and they founded a new city for their capital Baghdad

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33
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What was Baghdad?

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It was the capital city of the Abbasids, and was the center of learning, the intellectual water Baghdad represented a golden age of learning, invented techniques to make thicker more useful paper

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34
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Where did Baghdad adapt papermaking from?

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China

35
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Why did Persians begin a movement against the privileged status of Arabs?

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They argued that the practice went against the Islamic principles of brotherhood and equality

36
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What did Avicenna do

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Advanced science of medicine and wrote on numerous topics, including astronomy, geography, and logic

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What did Rumi do

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He was a Persian poet, theologian, and jurist, his teachings became the basis of the sufi movement within Islam

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What were viziers

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Prime Minister

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Problems for the Abbasids

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Struggled with tax collection, overtime, the political empire became hierarchical with an growing bureaucracy

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Similarities between the acid empire, and the Umayyad Empire

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They were both sunny, their ethnicity of leaders was Arab, therefore policy was to spread Islam

41
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What were Mamluks

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Originate from Egypt, were Turkish group that used to be military slaves, and took control of Egypt and created an empire

42
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Who were the seljuk Turks

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They were Muslim, originated from central Asia, seized parts of the Middle East, including Baghdad itself, their leader took the title sultan

43
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Who were the crusaders?

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They reopen access so that Christian could travel easily to and from their holy sites in and around Jerusalem after the seljuk Turks limited this access

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Who were the Mongols?

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Most famous conquers in history, originated from Central Asia, they conquered what was the left of the opposite empire, pushed seljuk Turks out of Baghdad, continued expanding westward but were stopped in Egypt by mamluks

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Economic challenges of Baghdad

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Lost its place on the southern silk roads when good began to move more frequently on the northern routes, the infrastructure fell into decay after population decreased

46
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What was the new capital of the Umayyad in Spain?

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Cordoba

47
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What was the battle of tours

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The Islamic military retreated when it lost the battle of Thors against Frankish forces

48
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What were dhows

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Ships that were made excellent for carrying goods, but we’re less useful for warfare

49
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What construction provided evidence of influence of architecture of the Umayyad

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The Alhambra, palaces and fortresses that were built outside present day Grenada

50
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Ibn Rushd also known as Averroes

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Well, influential work on law, secular philosophy, and the natural sciences

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Who was Maimonides

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Great scholar of ethics who was Jewish

52
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What caused merchants in Islamic society to become rich

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They could go rich from their dealings with far-flung trade routes across the Indian Ocean ocean and central Asia

53
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Why did many slaves convert to Islam?

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If they converted, they could become free and their children could become free

54
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Who did Muslims not in slave?

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Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians

55
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Who had more independence, slave, woman, or a regular woman?

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Slave woman

56
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What did Mohammed forbid?

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Abortion

57
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What is a harem?

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The wives of a polygamous man

58
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What was life like for women in the Islamic Society?

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Woman enjoyed higher status and more respect as well as more rights

59
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Who were sufis

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A group that emerged that emphasize introspection to grass truce that they believe could not be understood through learning

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What is the theory of Sufism beginning?

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Began as a mystical response to the perceived love of luxury

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What three continents were work crossroads of the Arabian peninsula

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Africa, Europe, and Asia, also known as Afro Eurasia

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Who are the bedouins

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Nomads who lived in Desert, polytheistic, organized into clans that traded with each other

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Where did the trade routes run from?

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Ran from the extreme south of the Arabian peninsula to the byzantine and Sassanid empires in the north

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What did the Hadith serve as

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As a guide for interpretation of the Quran and for social and legal customs

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Dhimmis, mawali, zakats

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Dhimmis- non Muslim
Mawali-Muslim converts
Zakats-Muslims

66
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Dome of the rock, Jerusalem

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Where God created, Adam, Abraham was ready to sacrifice his son when God stopped him, where Muhammed is taken into heaven

67
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Umayyads in Spain

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Most powerful of Muslim states to compete with Abbasids

68
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Luxury items being sold led to what

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Banking to keep and deposit money

69
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Eunuchs

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Men with no testicles

70
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Why did subsea in Africa not trade on a global level?

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Because of their small scale

71
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What two routes did merchants and Islam arrive

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Across the Sahara and over the Indian ocean

72
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South Arabian saddle on camels

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Made riding easier because they could grab on the hump

73
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Northern Arabians saddle on camels

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Put them high in the air, which gave them greater visibility in battles

74
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Northern Africans saddle on camels

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Gave the writer the best possible control over the camel

75
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Somalia in Eastern Africa saddle on camels

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Saddle for carrying loads

76
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What was the most precious thing traded and where did they acquire from

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Gold, trade and the Senegal river

77
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What two kingdoms gained wealthiness from trans saharan trade

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Ghana and Mali

78
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What was ghanas capital city

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Kumbai Saleh

79
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What were griots

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Story tellers

80
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Which part of India was more stable

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Southern India

81
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What is a Delhi sultanate

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Also known as a kingodm

82
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What is a jizya

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A tax

83
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Calicut know for

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An important port

84
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Where women more independent

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Yes women during this time enjoyed much independence than in other places

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