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Chapter 2
Warmboe Chapter 2 Study Guide JMIS7
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10/05/2011

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oases
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greeen areas in the desert fed by underground water
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Sheikh
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the head of the tribe
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Bedouins
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desert herders keep camels, goats and sheep live in tents, eat dried fruits and nuts. drink milk but don't eat their animals
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caravan
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group of traveling merchants and animals.
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Makkah (Mecca)
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crossroads for merchants, and it was also an important religious site.
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Kabba
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low square building surrounded of statures of gods and goddesses. Pilgrims went to mecca because they believed the great stone was from heaven
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Muhammad
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He was a prophet, preached islam told to only worship allah
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Madinah
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city of the prophet
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Quran
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the islam book of teaching or "holy book" Muhammad wrote it about what allah had told him.
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caliph
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successor to the messenger of god
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Umayyad
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caliphs who ruled from A.D. 661 to A.D. 750
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Damascus
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The capital in Syria for Umayyad
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Sufis
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prayed and taught islam
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Indonesia
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includes more muslims then any other country in the world.
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Timbuktu
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became a leading center of muslim learning
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Shiites
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Believed ali, Muhammad's son-in-law should succeed him and that all future caliphs should be ali's descendants.
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Sunnis
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outnumbered Shiites, accepted the Umayyad dynasty as rightful caliphs, though they didn't always agree with there policies.
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Abbasids
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were the dynasty that came after the Umayyads
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Baghdad
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abbasids capital
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Sultan
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Seljuk ruler also known as "holder of power"
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Suleiman I
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most famous sultan
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Mogul
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created another muslim empire
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Delhi
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the center of the mogul empire
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Akbar
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greatest mogul ruler.
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Mosques
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are muslim house of worships.
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bazaar
Definition
marketplace
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Mamun
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founded the house of wisdom in baghdad, staffed with chistians, jewish, and muslim scholars.
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Al-razi
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muslim chemist lived from A.D. 865 to A.D.
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Ibn Sina
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showed how diseases spread from person to person.
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Omar Khayyam
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wrote parts of the rubaiyat.
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Ibn Khaldun
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muslim historian 1375 he wrote that all civilizations rise grow then fall.
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minarets
Definition
mosque towers
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Crier
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announcer calls people to pray from minaret 5 times a day
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Granada
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Muslim palace. named Alhambra built in 1300's
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Agra
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home to the Taj Mahal
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Ottomans
Definition
Instanble capital city.
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Mongols
Definition
Infading group from central Asia attacked the Seljuk Turks
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