JEOPARDY The Spread of Islam to Africa

Categories Early Africa The Mali Empire Important People The Songhay Empire Important Events Vocabulary

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. 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.

W ho was Saladin? He was the leader of the Seljuk Turks, who reconquered most the Holy Lands taken by the Crusaders in the Middle East.

W hat 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.

W hat were the Buyids? In 945 this splinter dynasty conquered Baghdad and controlled the Abbasid Caliphs and took this title which means victorious in Arabic.

W ho 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.

W hat 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 13 th century. He was the great Mongol commander who conquered lands from China to Persia in the early 13 th 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.