ERROR: domain sstk.biz is blocked. Contact your network admin
Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password

Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Chapter 9&17

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Term
Definition
Bedounis   small groups of nomadic people in Arabia  
๐Ÿ—‘
Muhammad   Prophet of Islam whom Muslims recognize as Allah's messenger to all humankind  
๐Ÿ—‘
Hegira   Mohammad's journey from Mecca to Medina  
๐Ÿ—‘
Islam   a monotheistic religion whose prophet is Muhammad and whose holy book is the Qurยดan  
๐Ÿ—‘
Muslims   followers of Islam  
๐Ÿ—‘
Qurยดan   the sacred text of Islam  
๐Ÿ—‘
Five Pillars of Islam   behaviors and obligations that are common to all Muslims, which include the profession of faith  
๐Ÿ—‘
Mosque   a building for Muslim prayer  
๐Ÿ—‘
Jihad   ยจstruggle for the faithยจ , can be thought as an individual or common struggle  
๐Ÿ—‘
Abu Bakr   First Muslim caliph  
๐Ÿ—‘
Caliph   ยจsuccessor to the Prophetยจ; title given to the political and religious leader of Muslims  
๐Ÿ—‘
Caliphate   area ruled by a caliph  
๐Ÿ—‘
Umayyad   first ruling dynasty over the Muslim Caliphate  
๐Ÿ—‘
Sunnis   ยจpeople who follow the Sunna (way of the Prophet)ยจ  
๐Ÿ—‘
Shia   a branch of Islam whose adherents believe that the caliphate must go to a descendant  
๐Ÿ—‘
Sufis   a branch of Islam emphasizing a personal, mystical connection with God  
๐Ÿ—‘
Abbasid   dynasty that overthrew the Umayyad dynasty to rule the Muslim caliphate from 750 to 128  
๐Ÿ—‘
Harun al-Rashid   Fifth Abbasid caliph (ruled 786 to 809); under his rule, the Abbasid dynasty reached its height and Islamic culture experience a flowering  
๐Ÿ—‘
Ghazis   warriors for the Islamic faith  
๐Ÿ—‘
Ottomans   ruling dynasty of the Ottoman Empire (1293-1922), named for Osman I , the founder; at the Empires height, the Ottomans ruled a vast area  
๐Ÿ—‘
Sultan   title for the ruler of the Ottoman Empire  
๐Ÿ—‘
Jainissaries   highly trained soldiers in the elite guard of the Ottoman Empire  
๐Ÿ—‘
Mehmed ll   Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1444 to 1446 and again from 1451 to 1481. He helped conquer Constinople  
๐Ÿ—‘
Suleyman l   Sultan for the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566; he expanded the empire and took on large economic affairs  
๐Ÿ—‘
Shah   name given to a king of Safavid Empire  
๐Ÿ—‘
ยดAbbas   Shah of the Safavid Empire in Persia he has lead many military victories and has skilled administration brought about a golden age  
๐Ÿ—‘
Babur   Founder of the Mughal empire of India  
๐Ÿ—‘
Mughal Empire   a Muslim empire in India  
๐Ÿ—‘
Akbar the Great   Mughal emperor of India he enlarged his empire to include nearly all of the Indian peninsula  
๐Ÿ—‘
Sikhism   an Indian religion founded in the late 1400s whose beliefs blend elements of Hinduism and Islam  
๐Ÿ—‘
Shah Jahan   Mughal emperor of India from 1628 to 1658; under its rule the empires power reached its peak  
๐Ÿ—‘
Taj Mahal   a mausoleum built by India's Mughal emperor Shah Jahan  
๐Ÿ—‘
Aurangzeb   Mughal emperor who made Mughalยดs power extend its greatest extent  
๐Ÿ—‘


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: jaqwann001
Popular World History sets