4570344821 | Mesoamerica Ball Game | The sport in which the Mesoamericans would try to hit a rubber ball into a goal. | 0 | |
4570350380 | Olmecs | An early people who settled in modern day Mexico and who traded in jade and obsidian and erected colossal heads carved from rocks. | 1 | |
4570355756 | Popul Vuh | A Maya creation myth, taught that the gods had created humans out of maize and water, the ingredients that became human flesh and blood. | 2 | |
4570358301 | Mayan Calendar | solar calendar of 365.242 days (17 seconds off of today), ritual calendar of 260 days, and another calendar that predicted the end of the world was December 21, 2012. The Mayan Calendar was based on the Mayan Number system. | 3 | |
4570360919 | Mayan Cities | Built around temple-pyramid | 4 | |
4570364004 | Mayan Trade Routes | Traded with other Mayans from different places for new items. | 5 | |
4570366169 | Mayan Number System | The number system the Mayans made. It was a vigesimal (base 20 system) instead of a decimal system (base 10 system). | 6 | |
4570369784 | Abbasid Dynasty | Muslim dynasty after Ummayd, a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons | 7 | |
4570372255 | Mawali | Non-Arab Muslims | 8 | |
4570300842 | Islam | A religion based of a prophet named Muhammad which is to believe in one god (Allah) | 9 | |
4570348410 | Ummah | Muslim community | 10 | |
4570350381 | Muhammad | The founder of Islam and prophet of god (Allah) | 11 | |
4570356855 | Arab vs. Muslim | Arabs are people from the Arabian Peninsula, Muslims are people who believe in Islam. | 12 | |
4570358302 | Kaaba | The holy place for Muslims, as it is the place for the fifth pillar. | 13 | |
4570362179 | Qu´ran | The holy book for the Muslims. | 14 | |
4570364005 | Hadith | Traditional records of the deeds of Muhammad, and his quotations. | 15 | |
4570366170 | Ramadan | A holy month for Muslims in which they practice the fourth pillar of Islam. | 16 | |
4570369785 | Shi´a | The branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad. | 17 | |
4570373594 | Baghdad | The Islamic Capital during the Abbasid Dynasty. It was the center for learning and had the House Of Wisdom. | 18 | |
4570303036 | Shahadah | The first pillar of Islam: It is saying that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. | 19 | |
4570348411 | Salat | The second pillar of Islam: It is the daily prayers. | 20 | |
4570354463 | Zakat | The third pillar of Islam: It is giving charity to the poor. | 21 | |
4570356856 | Sawm | The fourth pillar of Islam: It is fasting during Ramadan. | 22 | |
4570360228 | Hajj | The fifth pillar of Islam: It is a pilgrimage of Mecca. | 23 | |
4570362180 | Jihad | A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal. | 24 | |
4570365158 | Caliph | A successor of Muhammad who would run the Islamic Empire. | 25 | |
4570368933 | Umayyad Dynasty | 661-750, in 661 the governor of Syria seized power and established the Umayyad Caliphate, the first Islamic dynasty. | 26 | |
4570372254 | Sunni | Islam members that acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad. | 27 | |
4570374265 | House Of Wisdom | A center of learning established in Baghdad in the 800s. It is where all the smart people in the empire would meet up to make advancements in knowledge. | 28 | |
4576934934 | Blood letting | Ancient Mayan practice to drain blood and let it sink back into the earth as tribute to the gods. | 29 |
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