AP World History Flashcards

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