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Question | Answer |
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Who is Allah? | Islamic God |
What are followers of Muhammad called? | Muslims |
What is the word that means "flight" of Muhammad from Mecca to Media | Hejira |
What is the tower that houses the muezzin to call Muslims to prayer? | Minaret |
Roman laws which were all complied into one set of standards | Justinians's code |
What is another name for the Holy War? | Jihad |
Places for Muslim worship | Mosque |
Two different spellings for the Muslims sacred book | Q'uran & Koran |
The Eastern Roman Empire became known as what? | The Byzantine Empire |
Which city was the meeting place of the East and West? and a vital link of both land and sea trade? | Constantinople |
Justinian's goal was to what? | restore the greatness of the Roman Empire |
The Byzantine Church became known as what church? | Eastern Orthodox Church |
Which army initiated the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert? | Seljuk Turks |
The largest group to settle Russia | Slavs |
Who established Orthodox Christianity as the state religion of Russia? | Vladmir 1 |
After 2 centuries of Mongul rule in Russia, which city rose to power in the North | Moscow |
Who do the Arabs trace their beginnings to? | Ishmael |
Muhammad supposedly received his ideas for Islam through what? | visions |
What aspect of Judicial Christian belief influenced and impressed Muhammad? | Monotheism |
The major problem after Muhammad's death was what? | there was no chosen successor-no lineage |
Muhammad's birth place | Mecca |
What city did Muhammad flea to? | Medina |
What Byzantine Emperor beneficiated from his wife's advice, not to flee? | Justinian |
What are the five pillars of Islam? | 1. Confession of Faith 2. Prayer 3. Alms Giving 4. Fasting during Ramadan 5. Pilgrimage to Mecca |
Why are the pillars of Islam important to the Muslims? | Determines place in heaven |