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Flashcards by Katerina Cowan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Katerina Cowan
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Who is Abu Bakr | Muhammad's first converts and was the first caliph |
| What is a caliph | A title the Muslims use for the highest leader of Islam (means successor) |
| Who made Arabia a muslim state in 634 | Abu Bakr |
| Who moved the capital from Medina to Damascus | The Umayyad |
| what made merchants easy access to other countries | Arabia's crossroad location |
| what were some goods did they get from China, India, and southeast asia | Fine white pottery, ivory, cloves, slaves, cotton, rice, oranges, cloths, iron, salt |
| what is tolerance | acceptance |
| what is a great muslim city in spain | cordoba |
| what became the capital of the islamic empire in 762 | Baghdad |
| who trained christian boys to become soldiers | the ottomans |
| who are the janissaries | Christian boys to be slave soldiers covered to islam and became fierce fighters |
| who was Mehmed II | Ottoman leader in 1453 |
| what is a sultan | an ottoman ruler |
| who lead the ottoman empire when it reached to its height in 1520-1566 | Suleyman I |
| what is a harem | an area where women had to live apart from men |
| who were muslims that sought that only members of muhammads family could become caliphs | Shia |
| who didn't think caliphs had to be related to muhammad as long as they were good muslims and strong leaders | Sunni |
| who lead the safavid empire in 1501 | esma'il |
| who built beautiful mosques in there capital | Esfahan |
| where was the mughal empire | india |
| who founded the mughal empire | babur |
| who was a mughal emperor who conquered new lands and began tolerant religious policies | Akbar |
| what is the taj mahal | a tomb for akbar's grandsons wife |
| what is an astrolabe | a device to find location |
| who is ibn battutah | an explorer |
| who is al-idrisi | a geographer |
| who was a muslim mathematician | al-khwarizmi |
| who wrote the medical encyclopedia | ibn-sina |
| what teaches that people can find Gods lobe by having a personal relationship with God | Sufism |
| who was a famous sufi poet | omar khayyam |
| what was "The Thousand and One Nights'" | a short story |
| who was a patron | a sponser |
| what is a minaret | a narrow tower on mosques |
| where do u pray to in a a mosque | Mecca |
| what is calligraphy | decorative writing into a art form |
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