History 7/ Carlton             Islam Questions  P.54 – 90

Geography and Life in Arabia P.54

1. Crossing Arabia was not easy, travelers had to cross _________ with

      ____________temperatures and little _________.

2. The Arabian Peninsula is at the intersection of 3 continents :

    1._______________,2._________________and 3.____________________

3. Name 3 goods that were carried along the trade routes: 1.____________,2.__________3._______

4. Using the map on P.55 Name the 5 bodies of water which surround Arabia:

    a.)_________________________,  b.)____________________c.) _________________________

    d.)_________________________   and e.)_____________________________________

5. Define “oasis” : _______________________________________________________________

6. Daily summer temperatures in the interior of Arabia reach ___________________degrees.

7. In Arabia, the two ways people lived were ________________ and ______________________.

8. Nomads depended on camels for _________________________ and _____________

     and belonged to a group of related people known as a ______________.

9. Most people in Arabia lived in ______________.

10. A group of traders that travel together is called a __________________.

11. What is a “souk” ?____________________________________________________.

12. In the picture on P.57 , What city do nomads and foreign merchants come to in Arabia?________

13. How did buyer and seller agree on price in Arabian markets? ____________________________

Origins of Islam P.59

14. Who brought a different religion to the people of Arabia ?________________________________

15. Muhammad was born in the town of _________________ around _______A.D. .His father and

     mother had died by the time he was ________ years old.

16.He was raised by his ____________________ and later by his _____________.

17. At age ______ he married _____________________ , a wealthy woman he worked for in

      the ____________________ business.

18. Where did Muhammad go to meditate ? _____________________________

19. An ____________appeared and spoke to Muhammad with messages from __________.

20. The religion Muhammad started was called ___________ which means to __________________.

21. A follower of this religion is called a ____________________.

22. The messages  were collected and put in the holy book of Islam called the _______________.

23.The Arabic word for “the God” is _________________.

24. A monotheistic religion believes in _______ God.

25.The three monotheistic religions are:___________, _____________ , and __________________.

26. Which group of people believe Jesus is the Son of God? _____________________________.

28. Looking at the picture on P.60, the name of the Jewish holy book is the _______________,

       the Christian holy book is the ____________, and the holy book of Islam is  the______________.

29. People traveled to the town of _______________ on a sacred journey called a

       __________________ to visit a very important shrine called the __________________.

Islam Spreads in Arabia

30. Muhammad did not have many followers because merchants refused to ____________________  

      ___________________________ and rejected_______________________________________.

31.In _________ A.D. Muhammad, with his daughter ___________________ and followers, went to

     the city of _______________________  which means “_________________________________”.

32. This journey is called the ___________________, and it is the ___________  ___________ in the

        Muslim calendar.

33. His house became a place for Muslim prayer called a _________________________.

34. Muslims face the town of ___________ when they pray because it is the home of the _________.

36. Muhammad died in ___________A.D. in his home in the city of ______________.

Section 3 Islamic Beliefs and Practices   P.66

37. Muslims wash themselves before praying so they will be ______________________________.

38.Muslims are not allowed to eat _____________ or drink ________________________.

39.”Jihad” can mean to ________________ or also translated as “____________   _____________”.

40.The writings  telling Muhammad’s words and actions or how he lived are called the ___________.

41. Write the 5 Pillars of Islam:

      A.______________________________________________________________________

      B._____________________________________________________________

      C.________________________________________________________________________

      D.__________________________________________________________________________

      E.____________________________________________________________________________

42. Islamic law is called _________________which rewards good behavior and punishes crimes.

43. Looking at the picture on P.69, In which writing would you find examples of duties expected from 

       Muslims? ____________

44. In which writing would you find interpretations of the Qur’an ?________________________

45. In which writing would you find the messages Muhammad received from God ?_______________

46.The man who took over after Muhammad died was ________ __________.

47. He became the highest leader of Islam which is called a _____________________.

48. Muslim armies defeated the __________________ and _________________________ empires.

50. Many early Muslim leaders came from the ________________________ family who moved the

       capital from _______________________ to __________________________.

51. A combined Arab and Berber army invaded the European country of __________ in 711 A.D. and

       ruled there for _______ years.

52. Islam was introduced into India by __________________.

53. _____________________________ has the largest Muslim population in the world.

54. Arabs learned from the Chinese how to make _____________ and use ____________________.

55. Arab merchants wanted African products such as

         ___________________,  _______________, and ____________________.

56. Traders crossing the Sahara  wanted to get _______. In exchange they gave Africans ________.

57. Jews & Christians had to pay a special_____________.

       And conquered people started speaking _______________

58. In 762 the capital of the Islamic Empire was the city of ______________________ where 1/3 of

      the city was the ______________ palace.

59. Baghdad had three important buildings a ____________, an ___________ and a ____________.

60. In Spain Muslims chose _____________________ to be their capital, which became the most

      advanced city in _______________, where men and women studied at the _________________.

The HAJJ

Section 2 Muslim Empires

62. In the 1200’s Muslim Turkish warriors known as ______________________ took land from the

        Christian ________________________ Empire.

63. _____________________ boys who were slaves became warriors  called __________________

64. In 1453 huge cannons were used by Muslims to conquer the city of _______________________

      which was renamed ______________________ by the Muslims.

65.  An Ottoman ruler is known as a _______________________.

66. Ottoman armies conquered Anatolia , also called _________  ________, and the countries of

      __________ and _________________.

67. The greatest leader of the Ottoman Empire was _____________________ called

        ” the ________________”.

68. Judges and other advisors to the sultan were the _______________ class.

69. Religious communities of Christians and Jews were called ____________________.

70. Women lived apart in an area of the house called a ______________.

71. Muslims who believed only Muhammad’s relatives could become caliphs were called _________.

      Muslims who believed a strong Muslim leader could become a caliph were called ____________.

72. The _________________ Empire began when Esma’il conquered ____________ and became

        “____________”  which means king.

73.”Immaculate Imams means ____________  _________________ leaders.

74. The major export of the Safavid Empire were __________________  _______________.

75. The ____________ were Turkish Muslims from ______________   ____________ led by Babur

        called the _______________.

76. He decided to build an empire in northern ____________. When people protested,

        ________    ___________________ were sent to crush them.

77. The Mughal Empire had great buildings such as the tomb/palace called the ________  _______.

Section 3 Cultural Achievements

78. Muslims studied the stars to know which direction the city of ______________ was in order to say

       their ___________.

79.Muslim explorer _________   _______________traveled to ________, __________,

       ____________, and  _______ in the 1320’s.

80. Al-Idrisi wrote an accurate book on ____________________.

      Al-Khwarizmi combined the Indian use of ___________ with Greek mathematics to create a new

81. Ar-Razi discovered how to treat the deadly disease _______________, and Avicenna wrote a

      medical ________________________.

82. Sufism teaches that people can have a ________________  ________________ with God.

83. Poet Omar Khayyam wrote in a poem that if I have

                                    a _________ of __________,

                                    a __________of ________,

                                    a __________of __________ and

                                     _____________ ,  even a wilderness will be a paradise.

84. Muslim short stories about heroes was called ________________________________________.

85. The greatest Muslim achievements in buildings were __________________ which have a

       __________ and a tower called a_____________________ .

87. The Blue Mosque gets its name from its _______________   __________________.

According to the Picture on P.101, the three Muslim Empires were the _____________________ Empire, the ____________________ Empire, and the ____________________ empire.