7th grade exam
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- What things did the Muslims leave behind
- MATH, SCIENCE, medicine,
- Cordoba
- capital of Muslim Spain, an economic center, hundreds of workshops, culture and learning flourished there
- Muhammad's life before vision
- merchant, married an older woman, was part of a nomad tribe
- Shiites
- 16%
- What is a Republic
- A government in which the people elect officials.
- Hijrah
- flight from Mecca to Medina by Muhammad
- What are the five themes of geography
- location, place, region, human environment, and movement
- Who are the Abbasid and what did they do?
- overthrew the Umayyads, moved capital to Baghdad, helped promote the golden age
- 6 Island Nations
- Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dom. Rep, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados
- What are the basic differences between the Muslims
- one group believes the leader must be related to the prophet and one group believes the leader must live by the prophets example
- Al-Andalus
- Muslim Spain -- conquered and controlled until 1492
- Mercenaries
- soldiers paid to fight
- What happened in 1054
- The church splits orthodox and roman catholic are formed
- Sunni
- 83%
- Trade brought
- Jews and Christians that influenced Muhammad
- faction
- opposing group
- Anthropology
- Study of human culture and life
- Five pillars of Islam
- Faith, prayer, Alms, pilgrammage, and fasting
- Abd al-Rahman III
- eighth emir of muslim spain..built a huge army, calmed all revolts, took control of northern africa
- Clans
- a basic unit of government on the Arabian peninsula
- What were the Bedouins
- Nomads
- Muslims treated jews and christians with tolerance
- true baby --tolerance is important
- What was the Golden Age for Jews
- Spain during muslim rule allowed jews to develop business and education
- Maimonides
- great scholar of religion, science, and medicine.
- Roman Catholic
- Pope is in Charged
- South American countries
- 13 -- Guyana, colombia, brazil, venezuela, argentina, chile, paraguay, uruguay, peru, ecuador, surinam, french guiana
- Eight countries of the Middle east
- Oman, yemen, saudi Arabia, jordan, iran, iraq, syria, lebanon, israel, qatar, U.A.E.
- 476
- The year that rome was sack
- The Ummayyads create a split in Muslim Communiy
- They believed the caliph should always be a relative of the Prophet
- Fatimid revolt
- A revolt challenging the Abbasid rule...drove them out of Egypt and set up their own capital at Cairo
- Seven countries of Central America
- Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica
- Iberian Peninsula
- southwestern tip of Europe; present location of Spain and Portugal
- Standing army
- fighting force maintained even in times of peace
- bureaucracy
- system of government in which a network of departments and agencies carries out the administrative work
- Shi'a
- Believe the caliph should be related to Muhammad
- Orthodox
- Emperor is in charge
- Al-Mansur
- built capital of Abbasid in Baghdad
- Augustus
- First emperor
- Abd al-Malik
- seventh century caliph who imposed a common language and currency
- Mecca
- Holy city of Islam
- Constantine
- Creates constantinople and converts to christianity
- Sunnis
- Accepted the Ummayyads rule
- Omar Khayyan
- master of the poetic form called the quatrain, popular in Persia
- What six things still exist today from Rome
- Architecture, Democracy, Art, Aqueducts, Roads, Military order, citizenship
- What was the Umayyad Empire and what great things did they do
- Established capital at Damascus, Extended muslim empire into spain, set up a sentral bureaucracy, common language of arabic
- Clovis and visigoths
- sacked Rome
- Baghdad
- capital of the Abbasid Empire
- Al-Zahrawi
- wrote a famous medical encyclopedia
- Ummayyads
- seize power in 656
- Mosque
- A prayer center or temple for Islam
- Aqueducts
- Roman built waterways used to bring water to the cities from the mountains
- Qu'ran
- Holy teachings of Muhammad
- Why was Justinian a great ruler
- Three reasons, he build Hagia Sophia, Reconquered former Romans lands in the West, and established the Justinian code
- Golden Age
- period in which a country or culture is at its peak
- Caliphs rule
- Muslim empire after Muhammad
- Iberian Peninsula
- The Middle East
- what were the reasons the roman empire fell?
- economic differences, social differences, decline in agriculture, military problems, political problems,
- Rank the religions
- Christians, Muslims, Hindu, Buddhists, and Jews
- Charles Martel
- defeated the Muslims at Tours and Pointes
- 732
- Battle of Tours