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Arabs trace their ancestry to Abraham through his son Ishmael |
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Muhammad was born in Mecca. |
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According to Muslim teachings, Muhammad received revelations from God through the angel Gabriel. |
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The head of an Arab tribe is called a vizier. |
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The Crusades were effectively ended by Saladin when he gained control of Egypt and took the offensive against the Christian States. |
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One of the first leaders of the Mongols was Genghis Khan. |
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Islamic law prohibits Muslims from being slaves. |
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Woman were often slaves. |
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The Quran taught that women had no social or spiritual rights. |
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Woman had no political rights. |
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An Islamic man can have no more than one wife. |
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An Islamic man can have 4 wives. |
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Sailors observing the stars with an Astrolobe were able to determine their ship's location. |
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Dervishes try to achieve union with Allah through dancing and chanting. |
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It is achieved through following the 5 Pillars. |
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The Quran specifically forbids any representation of a human figure in painting or any other art form. |
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Muslims cannot depict god. |
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| Muhammad began to meditate in the hills because... |
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| he became troubled by the gap between the honesty of most Meccans and the greediness of trading elites in the city. |
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| After Muhammads death, Muslim scholars drew up the Shari'ah, which is... |
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| A law code that provides believers with a set of practical laws to regulate their daily lives. |
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| The revolt led by Hussein in the early Umayyad period led to |
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| The split into the two groups, the Shiites and the Sunnis. |
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| The Umayyad dynasty was replaced by the... |
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| With a population of two hundred thousand ... was Europe's largest city adter Constantinople. |
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| It was through the Muslim world that Europeans... |
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| Recovered the works of Aristotle and other Greek philosophers. |
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| Omar Khayyam is most famous for... |
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| his literary works, especially the Rubaiyat. |
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| A crucial part of every Muslim city or town was the ... ,which was a covered market. |
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| During the Abbasid dynasty, the council that advised the caliph was led by a prime minister that was know as a... |
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| One of the five pillars of Islam is the hajj, which is... |
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| According to the Islamic belief, Muhammad is... |
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| For Muslims, obeying Allah's will means following... |
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| The Five Pillars of Islam. |
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| According to the Quran, fair, defensive warfare is a jihad which means... |
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| struggle in the way of god. |
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| Resentment against Umayyad rule grew because... |
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| non-arab Muslims didnt like the way local administrators favored arabs. |
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| The Crusades had little lasting impact on Southwest Asia except to... |
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| breed centuries of mistrust between Muslims and Christians. |
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| In addition to the Five Pillars, Muslims must obey the Shari'ah which, |
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| forbids them to gamble, eat pork, drink alcohol, or engage in dishonest behavior. |
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| Muslim scholar and scientist Ibn Sina wrote a medical encylopedia that... |
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| was translated into Latin and became a basic textbook in Europe. |
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| Islamic scholars and theologians organized moral rules into the ..., or code of law. |
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| General Mu'awiyah was know for what outstanding virtue... |
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| using forces only when necessary. |
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| Why are there no representations of the prophet Muhammad adorning mosques? |
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| the Hadith warns against any attempt to imitate God by creating pictures of living beings. |
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| Under Germanic law, if an accused person was unharmed after a physical trial, or ..., he or she was presumed innocent. |
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| Saint Benedict founded the community of monks that... |
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| established the basic form of monasticism in the Catholic Church. |
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| The Carolingian Renaissance was... |
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| a revival of learning and culture. |
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| The Vikings were made part of European civilization by... |
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| the Frankish policy of settling and converting them to Christianity. |
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| The most important gift a lord could give to a vassal was... |
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| ... was a code of ethics a knight were supposed to uphold. |
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| In 1066, William of Normandy... |
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| invaded England, soundly defeating King Harold's forces at the Battle of Hastings. |
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| The Magna Carta was a document that... |
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| eventually was used to strengthen the idea that a monarch's power was limited not absolute. |
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| ... led the Muslim forces to retake Jerusalem from the crusaders. |
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| The Ventian leaders of the Fourth Crusade... |
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| saw an opportunity to neutralize the Byzantine Empire and diverted their army to Constantinople. |
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| Under Germanic Law, a wrongdoer had to pay ... or "money for a man" to the family of the person. |
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| Gregory 1, also know as Gregory the Great... |
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| strengthened the power of the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church. |
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| Charlemagne establish the missi dominici, who were... |
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| two men who were sent out to local districts to insure that the courts were carrying out the kings orders. |
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| At the heart of feudalism was... |
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| vassalage, which meant warriors swore loyalty, who in turn took care of their needs. |
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| The ... was a set of unwritten rules that determined the relationship between lord and his vassal. |
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| While the lord was away at war or at court, managment of the estate fell to... |
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| the first census since Roman Times. |
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| Phillip 2 Augusts greatly increased the power of the French monarchy by... |
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| waging war on the rulers of England and gaining control or Normandy, Maine, Anjou, Aquitaine. |
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| Justinian's codification of Roman Law resulted in... |
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| The push for the crusades came when... |
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| Emperor Alexius 1 asked for aid. |
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| A man who separates himself from ordinary society in order to pursue a life of dedication to God is a... |
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| People sent out to carry a religious message were... |
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| Monks copied the scriptures and Latin Classics in rooms called.. |
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| The region of land given by west Frankish king to the Vikings came to be called... |
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| The clergy, the nobility, and the peasants and townspeople made up three ... classes, of society. |
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| Knights showed their fighting skills in contests called... |
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| Under Edward 1, the English ... emerged. |
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| In 1215 at Runnymeade, King John signed a document of rights called the... |
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| The first French parliment which convened in 1302, was called the... |
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| The seperation between the Eastern Orthodox and the Catholic Church of the West was called a.... |
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| The monastic leader, Saint ... of Clairvaux, enlisted the aid of King Louis 7 in a second crusade. |
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| The European Christians called the Muslims of the Holy Land... |
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| replaced by the Umayyads... |
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| after their rise, focus of trade shifted to Cairo... |
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| created by a ninth-century Iranian mathematician... |
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| perfected by the Muslims; later helped European sailors... |
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| Europe's largest city after Constantinople... |
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| Europe's largest city after Constantinople... |
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| fourteenth-century Islamic palace in Grenada, Spain... |
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