11051039444 | Longships | Narrow boats that allowed the vikings to sail down thin rivers, and pillage inland villages | 0 | |
11051051435 | Berbers | A member of a North African, primarily Muslim people living in settled or nomadic tribes from Morocco to Egypt | 1 | |
11051060516 | Polynesian Migrations | Matinees with canoes who migrated to Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, Marquesas, and Easter Island | 2 | |
11051075890 | Bantu Migration | The movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 1000 | 3 | |
11051089562 | The crusades | A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule. | 4 | |
11051114171 | Jerusalem | A city in the Holy Land, regarded as sacred by Christians, Muslims, and Jews. | 5 | |
11051142625 | Islam | A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and a body of law written in the Quran. Followers are called Muslims. | 6 | |
11051164532 | Muhammad | Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam. | 7 | |
11051201175 | Sufis | Mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, & simple life | 8 | |
11051214326 | Caliphate | Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad. | 9 | |
11051251661 | Abbasids | Dynasty that ruled much of the Muslim Empire from A.D. 750 to 1258 | 10 | |
11051298998 | Al-Andalus | A Muslim-ruled region in what is now Spain, established by the Berbers in the eighth century A.D. | 11 | |
11051305534 | Ka'aba | A black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine | 12 | |
11051317704 | Hirja | Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina in 622 | 13 | |
11051324585 | Qu'ran | the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina | 14 | |
11051350202 | Hadith | Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad, and his quotations | 15 | |
11051364278 | Bedouins | small groups of nomadic people in Arabia | 16 | |
11051368528 | Black Death | The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying off vast numbers of persons. | 17 | |
11051376997 | Harun al Rashid | The fifth abbasids | 18 |
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