Transcript Ch 7 – The Origins and Spread of Islam

Ch 7 – The Origins and Spread of
Islam
7th Grade World History
1. Who is the founder of Islam?
• Muhammad
2. Where was Muhammad born?
• In 570
• On the Arabian
Peninsula
• Mecca
3. Where is the Arabian Peninsula?
• Southwest Asia
• Between the Red Sea
and the Persian Gulf
4. What are parts of today’s Middle
East?
• Northern Africa, the
eastern Mediterranean
shore, Turkey, Iran, and
Iraq
5. What do Arabs call their home?
• Al-jazeera
6. What are some geographic
features of Mecca?
• Located in a dry, rocky
valley in western Arabia
• Gained wealth as a
center of trade
• Merchants traveled
and purchased goods
7. Polytheism
• Belief in more than one
God
8. What cultural trait united Arabs
before Muhammad?
• Language
9. What did people call
Muhammad?
• al-Amin – which means
trustworthy
10. When is Muhammad called to
prophethood?
• In 610 C.E.
• In a cave in the
mountains
• The angel Gabriel
speaks to him
11. What took Muhammad
outside the Arabian Peninsula?
• He made many trading
journeys
12. Islam
• The religious faith of
Muslims
13. What is Allah?
• The Islamic word for
God
14. What is a prophet?
• A person who speaks or
interprets the word of
God
15. What is monotheism?
• The belief in a single
God
16. What is a Muslim?
• A person who
surrenders to God
17. What is the Qur’an?
• The holy book of Islam
• It is a record of the
words of God spoken by
Gabriel
18. Why did leaders of Makkah
become upset?
• They did not want to
share their wealth
19. What is a boycott?
• A refusal to do business
with an organization or
group
• Makkah leaders refused
to do business with
Muhammad’s followers
20. What is the Night Journey?
• A winged horse took
Muhammad from
Makkah to Jerusalem,
the holy city for
Muslims
21. Why did Muhammad go to the
city of Medina?
• For protection
• To convert more Arabs
to Islam
22. What is a caliph?
• A Muslim ruler
23. What is a caliphate?
• A Muslim government
led by the caliph
24. How did the caliphs spread the
faith of Islam?
• By military conquest
• They gained new lands,
resources and goods
25. How were Jews and Christians
treated in Muslim territories?
• They were forced to pay
extra taxes
26. What happened after the first
four caliphs?
• Islam split into two
branches (Sunnis and
Shi’ah)
27. What was the argument
between the Sunnis and Shi’ah?
• Whether the caliph
should be descended
from Muhammad
28. How did the Umayyad dynasty
expand Islam?
• Through military
conquest, they gained
new lands
29. Who stopped the spread of
Islam in Europe?
• Charles Martel
• Battle of Tours in 732
• Kept Muslims from
entering France