| A | B |
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| Abu-al-Abbas | first ruler in the Abbasid dynasty |
| Bedouins | desert herders who traveled from oasis to oasis for water |
| Quran | the holy book of Islam |
| Timbuktu | West African center of Muslim learning |
| Taj Mahal | a beautiful tomb in India |
| Suleiman I | sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the 1500s |
| minarets | towers of a mosque from which an announcer calls Muslims to prayer |
| Muslims | followers of Islam |
| Five Pillars of Islam | acts of worship Muslims must fulfill |
| Shites | believed Muhammad's son-in-law should rule after Muhammad's death |
| What stretches over most of the Arabian pennisula? | desert |
| What does Islam mean? | surrendering to the will of God |
| What happened when Muhammad and his followers left Makkah? | Madinah made Muhammad its ruler |
| What belief does Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have in common? | There is one God |
| Who were the first four caliphs? | rulers who had a personal connection to Muhammad |
| Sunnis believed that... | the Umayyad dynasty should rule. |
| When did the Arab Empire end? | when Mongols burned Baghdad. |
| One of the largest and most powerful Muslim empires | the Ottoman Empire |
| The mogul ruler Akbar | allowed religious freedom |
| What country today has the largest Muslim population? | Indonesia |
| Which city was NOT under the rule of the Umayyad caliphs? | Constantinople |
| Which city was under the rule of the first four caliphs? | Damascus |
| Which sea bordered Arabia to the west? | Red Sea |
| What was the farthest east that Islam reached under the first four caliphs? | Persia |
