Social Studies vocab.
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- ransom
- maoney paid in exchange for the release of prisoners
- caliph
- a tittle taken by Muslim rulers who claimed religious orders to rule
- segregation
- the forced separation of one group from the rest of a community
- Ramadan
- the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, during which Muslims are supposed to fast
- clan
- a group of related families
- anti- Semitism
- prejudice towards Jews
- astronomy
- the science of the stars, planets and other objects in the universe
- Fatimid Dynasty
- A Muslim ruling family in Egypt and north Africa that was descended from Fatima, Muhammad's daughter
- sedentary
- permanently settled in one place
- circumference
- the distance of a circle or shere
- calligraphy
- the art if beautiful handwriting
- inquisition
- a judicial established by the catholic church to combat heresy and other forms of religious error
- garrison
- a place where a group of soldiers is stationed for defensive purposes
- boycott
- a refusal to do business with an organization or group
- shah
- a ruler in certain middle east lands, especially Persia
- Abbasid
- a member of a Muslim ruling family desendeds from a relative of muhammad
- mysticism
- a form of religious beliefs and practice involving sudden insight and intense experiences of God
- nomad (Bedouins)
- a person who moves from one place to another, often in search of water and vegetation
- zoology
- the scientific study of animals
- algebra
- a branch of mathematics that solves problems including unknown numbers
- dynasty
- a line of rulers descended from the same family
- immortal
- live forever
- siege
- an attempt to surround a place and cut off all access to it in order to force a surrender
- pharmacist
- a person who prepares medications for use in healing
- Torah
- the Jewish scriptures or bible
- terrace
- a fla strip of ground on the hillside used for growing crops
- convert
- a person who adopts new beliefs especially those of a religious faith
- alms giving
- the giving of money, food, or other things that value the needy
- astrolabe
- an insturment used to observe and measure the position of the sun and other heavenly bodies
- Iberian peninsula
- a peninsula in southwestern Europe that today is divided by Spain and France
- synagogue
- a Jewish house of worship
- evolution (Also science vocab)
- the process by which different kinds of animals and others things develop
- irrigate
- to bring water to a dry place in order to grow crops
- sultan
- the sovereign ruler of a Muslim state
- province
- a division of a country or an empire
- tribe
- a social group that shares a common
- caravan
- a group of people traveling together for mutual protection, often with pack animals such as camels
- monothism
- belief in a single God
- conservatory
- an advanced school of music
- platue
- a raised area of flat land
- imam
- a leader of prayer in a mosque
- polytheist
- a person who believes in more than one God
- hadith
- accounts of Muhammad's words or actions
- Anatolia
- a large peninsula at the western edge of Asia; also called Asia Minor
- expulsion
- removal by force