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11051039444LongshipsNarrow boats that allowed the vikings to sail down thin rivers, and pillage inland villages0
11051051435BerbersA member of a North African, primarily Muslim people living in settled or nomadic tribes from Morocco to Egypt1
11051060516Polynesian MigrationsMatinees with canoes who migrated to Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, Marquesas, and Easter Island2
11051075890Bantu MigrationThe movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 10003
11051089562The crusadesA series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule.4
11051114171JerusalemA city in the Holy Land, regarded as sacred by Christians, Muslims, and Jews.5
11051142625IslamA 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
11051164532MuhammadArab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.7
11051201175SufisMystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, & simple life8
11051214326CaliphateIslamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.9
11051251661AbbasidsDynasty that ruled much of the Muslim Empire from A.D. 750 to 125810
11051298998Al-AndalusA Muslim-ruled region in what is now Spain, established by the Berbers in the eighth century A.D.11
11051305534Ka'abaA black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine12
11051317704HirjaMuhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina in 62213
11051324585Qu'ranthe sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina14
11051350202HadithTraditional records of the deeds of Muhammad, and his quotations15
11051364278Bedouinssmall groups of nomadic people in Arabia16
11051368528Black DeathThe 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
11051376997Harun al RashidThe fifth abbasids18

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