Post-Classical Essential Terms Quiz1
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| 1702365901 | Shaykhs | In the Pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula, the tribal and clan leaders. | 0 | |
| 1702365902 | Medina | The "City of the Prophet", originally known as Yathrib. | 1 | |
| 1702365903 | Ali | Fourth Orthodox Caliph who is the focus of the Shi'a belief. | 2 | |
| 1702365904 | Dhimmis | "People of the Book". | 3 | |
| 1702365905 | Seljuk Turks | Nomadic invaders from Central Asia who ruled in the name of Abbasid caliphs. | 4 | |
| 1702365906 | Sahel | A grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. | 5 | |
| 1702365907 | Sufis | Islamic mystics responsible for the expansion of Islam into Southeast Asia. | 6 | |
| 1702365908 | Qu'ran | The holy book of Islam. | 7 | |
| 1702365909 | Hijra | In 622, Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina . | 8 | |
| 1702365910 | Hajj | The fifth Pillar of Islam then requires all Muslims to perform a pilgrimage to Mecca to worship at the Ka'ba. | 9 | |
| 1702365911 | Khadijah | Muhammad's first wife. | 10 | |
| 1702365912 | Caliphs | The political and religious successors to Muhammad. | 11 | |
| 1702365913 | demography | The study of population. | 12 | |
| 1703842601 | Damascus | The political capital of Umayyad. | 13 | |
| 1703842602 | Bedouin | Camel and goat nomads of the Arabian Peninsula. | 14 | |
| 1703842603 | Sundiata | The Lion Prince Of Mali. | 15 | |
| 1703842604 | Sunnis | Political and Theological division within Islam that supported Umayyad. | 16 | |
| 1703842605 | Griots | Oral historians within the Mali Empire. | 17 | |
| 1703842606 | Timbuktu | A Major trading city in Mali near the Niger River | 18 | |
| 1703842607 | Umayyad | The dominant clan of Mecca who were threatened by Muhammad's teachings . | 19 | |
| 1703842608 | Zanj | The Arabic term for East African coast. | 20 | |
| 1703842609 | Great Zimbabwe | A large stone settlement that was the center of the Bantu confederation in southeastern Africa. | 21 | |
| 1703842610 | Ka'ba | The First Orthodox Caliph . | 22 | |
| 1703842611 | Ibn Batuta | An Arab traveler who wrote about African culture and societies. | 23 | |
| 1703842612 | Swahili | A Bantu language with many Arabic words. | 24 | |
| 1703842613 | Mawali | Non-Arab converts to Islam. | 25 | |
| 1703842614 | Mali | A West African trading nation or Sudanic kingdom which became a model of the Islamized Sudanic kingdoms. Their emperors were called Mansa. | 26 | |
| 1703842615 | Songhai | The third of the great Sudanic states that was formed by Sunni Ali. | 27 | |
| 1703842616 | Shi'a | Political and theological division within Islam that follow the descendants of Ali. | 28 | |
| 1703842617 | stateless societies | African societies formed around kinship and lacking concentrated political power. | 29 | |
| 1703842618 | Abassid | An Arabic Islamic clan led by the great-great-grandson of Muhammad's uncle. | 30 |
