AP World History Flashcards
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| 3538693475 | dar al-islam | meaning the "house of Islam" and refers to lands under Islamic rule | 0 | |
| 3538715590 | hajj | the holy pilgrimage to mecca | 1 | |
| 3538723392 | bedouin | nomadic peoples that kept herds of sheep/goats/camels migrating through the desert to find grass and water | 2 | |
| 3538740253 | Muhammad | a prophet-thought by muslims to be the last; born about 570 CE | 3 | |
| 3538760217 | khadija | a wealthy widow who Muhammad worked for and later married | 4 | |
| 3538770379 | allah | the one true deity that ruled the universe and would soon reward the right and punish the wrong ones | 5 | |
| 3538794263 | quran | the holy book of islam; direct revelations of the words of allah | 6 | |
| 3538823350 | hadith | most important after the quran; sayings and accounts attributed to Muhammad | 7 | |
| 3538848953 | mecca | city-mostly at the time a polytheistic society | 8 | |
| 3538860105 | ka'ba | cube shaped building that housed shrine thought to be dwelling of a powerful deity | 9 | |
| 3538882687 | hijra | meaning migration | 10 | |
| 3538892456 | umma | the name of the community of Muhammad's followers | 11 | |
| 3538907711 | seal of the prophets | the final prophet through whom allah would reveal his message to humankind | 12 | |
| 3538932400 | Five Pillars Of Islam | 1. acknowledge allah as only god and Muhammad as prophet 2.must pray daily 3.fast during Ramadan 4. must give to the weak or poor 5. when able make pilgrimage to mecca | 13 | |
| 3539097664 | sharia | Islamic holy law | 14 | |
| 3539101283 | abu bakr | man that was one of the prophet's closest friends | 15 | |
| 3539149248 | caliph | deputy | 16 | |
| 3539177665 | expansion of islam | rapid expansion of the spread of islam | 17 | |
| 3539199194 | shia | supporting party of the relatives to lead following muhammad | 18 | |
| 3539228589 | sunnis | supporting party of a leader in which that showed personality traits of a leader | 19 | |
| 3539250036 | Umayyad dynasty | established after the assassination of ali | 20 | |
| 3539264684 | jizya | name of special tax for those that didn't convert to islam | 21 | |
| 3539287607 | abbasid dynasty | founded by abu, principle source of authority in the dar al-islam | 22 | |
| 3539309671 | baghdad | city constructed by abbasid caliphs; center of banking, commerce, crafts, and industrial production | 23 | |
| 3539359122 | camel caravans | main source of traveling/long distance trade | 24 | |
| 3539373533 | Al-Andalus, cordoba | prosperity of Islamic spain that shows the effects of long distance trade | 25 | |
| 3539398819 | veiling of women | custom; to discourage the attention of men | 26 | |
| 3539440744 | madrass | institutions of higher education-later developing into major cities of the Islamic world | 27 | |
| 3539490703 | sufis | Islamic missionaries | 28 | |
| 3539505650 | the Arabian nights/the thousand & one nights | a collection of stories popular in the abbasid empire | 29 |