11060399964 | Longships | naval vessels made and used by the Vikings used of commerce, exploration, and warfare. Long and skinny made of wood. Bow and stern had pointed tips that pointed upward. | 0 | |
11060399965 | Berbers | A member of a North African, primarily Muslim people living in settled or nomadic tribes from Morocco to Egypt | 1 | |
11060399966 | Polynesian Migrations | mariners with canoes who migrated to Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, Marquesas, and Easter Island | 2 | |
11060399967 | 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 | |
11060399968 | Crusades | A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule. | 4 | |
11060399969 | Jerusalem | Israel | 5 | |
11060399970 | 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 | |
11060399971 | Muhammad | Founder of Islam | 7 | |
11060399972 | Sufis | mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, & simple life | 8 | |
11060399973 | Caliphate | Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad. | 9 | |
11060399974 | Abbasids | Abbasids or Umayyads? Were more open and integrating of non Arab peoples, and were more open to the non-Arab masses converting to Islam. | 10 | |
11060399975 | Al-Andalus | A Muslim-ruled region in what is now Spain, established by the Berbers in the eighth century A.D. | 11 | |
11060399976 | Ka'aba | A building in the middle of a mosque | 12 | |
11060399977 | Hirja | The northern emigration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib. | 13 | |
11060399978 | Qu'ran | A sacred Islamic book | 14 | |
11060399979 | Hadith | A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran, the most important basis for Islamic law. I'm | 15 | |
11060399980 | Bedouins | small groups of nomadic people in Arabia | 16 | |
11060399981 | Black Death | A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351 | 17 | |
11060399982 | Harun al-Rashid | One of the great Islamic rulers of the Abbasid era | 18 |
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