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JEOPARDY
The Spread of Islam to Africa
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Early Africa
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The Mali Empire
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The Songhay Empire
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Important People
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Important Events
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Vocabulary
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What were Ghana, Mali, and the Songhay
Empire?
These were the three western
African kingdoms in order.
What was Ifriqiya?
This is what the Romans called
Africa.
What were stateless societies ?
This was the name for the African
societies organized around kinship or
obligation and lacking the power of a
formal state.
What was the Maghrib ?
This is what Arabs used to refer to
lands in the west of Africa.
Who were the Almoravids and the Almohadis?
These were the two reformist movements that
took place among the northern Berbers in Africa
and helped spread Islam into the interior.
What was the Thousand and One Nights ?
The court life and intrigue of Harun al-Rashid’s
Empire were featured in this collection of stories.
Who were the Mamluks?
These were the Turkic Slaves who
became Islamic rulers of Egypt.
Who were the Ulama ?
They were the Orthodox Islamic
scholars who often opposed
scientific thought and non-Islamic
ideas.
Who were the Mongols and Hulegu?
This leader and group smashed the
Turko-Persian kingdoms and in
1238 captured Baghdad and killed
the last Abbasid caliph.
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Who was al-Ghazali
This Islamic philosopher and
theologian tried to fuse ancient
Greek scholarship with the
traditions of the Qur’an
Who were the Sufi Mystics?
These were the Islamic mystics who
helped spread Islam throughout
Asia and often used drugs, dancing,
meditation or songs to establish a
trance like state.
What was the Rubaiyat ?
This work by Omar Khayyam was the
epitome of Islamic literature and is still
a best seller in the west.
Who was Saladin?
He was the leader of the Seljuk
Turks, who reconquered most the
Holy Lands taken by the Crusaders
in the Middle East.
What was Acre?
This city was the last
Christian Crusader stronghold
in the Middle East and fell to
the Turks in 1291.
Who was al-Rhazi ?
He was the Islamic scholar who
classified all material substances
into animal, vegetable and mineral.
What were the Buyids?
In 945 this splinter dynasty
conquered Baghdad and controlled
the Abbasid Caliphs and took this
title which means victorious in
Arabic.
Who was Aisha ?
She was Muhammad’s widow and
actively promoted the claims of the
Umayyad clan against the forces of
Ali.
What are hadiths?
This is another name for the traditions
established by Muhammad.
What were the Crusades? ( 1st one successful)
These were a series of military adventures launched by
western Christians to free the Holy Land and to
distract meddlesome nobles from the affairs of the
church and state.
What was Shah-Nama? ( book of
Kings)
This was the history written
about Persia from the
creation to the Islamic
conquests.
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Who was Ibn Khaldun?
He was the Muslim historian who
developed the concept that dynasties
of nomadic conquerors had a cycle
of three generations, strong, weak,
and dissolute.
Who was al-Biruni?
He was able to calculate the
specific weight of 18 major
minerals.
Who was Chinggis Khan?
He was the great Mongol commander who
conquered lands from China to Persia in the early
th
13 century.
Who was Muhammad ibn Qasim?
He was the Arab general who
conquered the Sind in India and
declared the region and the Indus
valley to be part of the Umayyad
Empire.
Who was Mahmud of Ghazni?
This was the third ruler of the Turkish slave
dynasty in Afghanistan who led raids into India
and sacked and looted one of the wealthiest
Hindu temples in northern India.
Who was Muhammad of Ghur?
He was the military commander
and ruler of a small mountain
kingdom in Afghanistan who
began the conquest and subsequent
political control of northern India.
Who was Qutb-ud-din-Aibak?
( easy for you to say)
This was the lieutenant of Muhammad of Ghur
who took over after the general’s assassination and
established his capital at Delhi on the Jumna
River.
Who were the Bhaktic Cults?
This was the name for the Hindu groups
dedicated to gods and goddesses who stressed
strong emotional ties between the devotees and
god and goddesses.
Who was Kabir?
He was a Muslim mystic and weaver who played
the down the religious differences between
Hinduism and Islam.
What were the Delhi Sultanates or the Sultans of
Delhi?
The Islamic rulers of the Indo-Gangetic plain
and fought with each other, Hindu princes
for control of the Indian heartland.