Byzantine
Empire
Key Vocabulary
Important People
Islam, Judaism, Christianity
or All
Basic Beliefs
Important Places
Islam’s Beginnings
Potpourri
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He tried to restore the Roman Empire but is best known for his code of laws
Justinian
100
A narrow body of water that connects two larger
bodies of water
strait
100
People who practice Islam
Muslims
100
Are monotheistic
All
100
The key religious duties of every Muslim
The Five Pillars of Islam
100
The cube shaped holy shrine of Islam
Kaaba
100
The city where Islam began
Mecca
100
The split between the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern
Orthodox churches
The Great Schism
200
A holy image such as a painting or statue.
icon
200
Islam’s final prophet
Muhammad
200
Believe Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad were holy
prophets
Islam
200
The main source of Islamic teaching
Quran
200
A Muslim house of worship
Mosque
200
Muhammad’s journey from Mecca to Medina.
The Hijra
200
The places Byzantine culture and Eastern Orthodox
Christianity quickly spread to
Eastern Europe and Russia
300
Nomadic herders and skilled warriors
Bedouins
300
He was a traveler and trader who wrote a book all about
his travels
Ibn Battuta
300
Believe in a Messiah
Judaism & Christianity
300
This provides specific rules of personal conduct for
Muslims
Sharia
300
Baghdad
300
Abbasid capital that was a center for the “golden
age”
Sunnis and Shias
300
Muslims are divided into these two groups
The title of the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox
Church
Pope and Byzantine Emperor
400
People depended on these in such a hot, dry climate
Oases
400
Justinian's wife
Theodora
400
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Is the youngest of the three
Islam
400
The Fifth Pillar
Hajj
400
Muhammad is welcomed as it ruler
400
Medina
The 3 main reasons the Arab/ Muslim empire expanded so rapidly
The Persian/Byzantine empires decline; The ability of Muslim warriors and Religious
toleration
400
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wager?
Abraham, Moses and Muhammad were these
prophets
100
The large peninsula where Islam began
Arabia
200
300
15%
Percentage of Muslims that are Shia
Arab mathematicians most significant contribution
Creating symbols for our numbers
400