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Islam, Tang, Song, Mongols
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Social Studies
9th Grade
03/31/2016

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Muhammad
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is considered in Islam to be the greatest messenger and prophet sent by God to guide humanity to the right way
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Mecca
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in a desert valley in western Saudi Arabia, is Islam’s holiest city, as it’s the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and the faith itself
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Hajj
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is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca
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innovations
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a new method, idea, product, etc
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Islam
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the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah
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Marco Polo
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An Italian explorer of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia
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Song Dynasty
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was culturally the most brilliant era in later imperial Chinese history
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military campaign
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applies to large scale, long duration, significant military strategy plan incorporating a series of inter-related military operations or battles forming a distinct part of a larger conflict often called a war
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Pax Mongolica
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is a historiographical term, modeled after the original phrase Pax Romana, which describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural, and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian
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