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1. Where is the Arabian Peninsula located?
2. The Arabian Peninsula is the home of the _________ people.
The ___________ Sea lies west of the Arabian Peninsula.
The ______________ Sea and the _________ Ocean lies south of the Arabian Peninsula.
The __________ Gulf lies east of the Arabian Peninsula.
The _____________________ Sea lies northwest of the Arabia Peninsula.
The __________ Sea and the _____________ Sea lies north of the Arabian Peninsula.
Why would people in a caravan be glad to see an oasis?
9. A _____________ is a person who roams from place to place without settling.
An Arab nomad is called a _______________________.
The Bedouins raised ______________, _________________, and sheep and traveled from oasis to ____________________.
12. Why did Arabs form tribes?
13. What is a sheikh?
Describe the life of a Bedouin.
15. Why did Bedouins travel in caravans?
16. What means of transportation did merchants have?
17. The most important town built alone the Arabia trade route was ________________.
18. _______________ was also an important religious site and the center of the Kaaba.
19. What is the Kaaba?
20. The religion of _____________ arose in the Arabian Peninsula in the ______________.
21. Islam grew from the preaching of a man named _____________________.
22. Muhammad was born in ____________________ in A.D. _____. He was _________ at age five or six.
As a teen he worked as a ______________ leader and eventually became a _________________.
23. What is a merchant?
24. What troubled Muhammad about the things he saw around him?
25. What makes Islam different from other religions?
26. A person who practice the Islamic religion is called a _______________.
27. Muslims worship _______________, Arabic word for God.
28. Muhammad preached that______________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________.
29. Muhammad also preached that _________________________________________________.
30. Why did Makkah (Mecca) become too dangerous for Muhammad and his followers to stay?
32. Muhammad moved to ____________, which was renamed _____________(Medina), the city of ______________.

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33. Muhammad was a skilled ____________ and _______________ leader.
34. Muhammad applied laws he believe God had given him to settle __________ among
the people.
35. The holy city of Islam is _____________.
When Muhammad died in A.D. _____, the entire ____________ Peninsula was part of the _______________ state.
37. Like Christianity and Judaism, Muslims believe in _____ God.
38. Like Christianity and Judaism, Muslims believe that God spoke to people through
_____________.
39. Muhammad’s messages from Allah were written in the __________.
40. The holy book for Islam is the _________. It contains accounts of events, ___________, and __________________.
41. The belief in one God is called _______________.
42. The Quran provides guideline for how to __________.
The Five Pillars of Islam are ____________, ______________, _____________, _____________, and __________________________.
The Muslims code of law is the ____________________.
The ______________ is a set of ______________ based on ___________________
words and ___________.
46. What are deeds?
Why is the Quran important in the daily life of Muslims?
Use the book below to provide three examples of guidelines of how to live according to the Quran.

3. Islam Arabian Peninsula Madinah (Medina) Makkah (Mecca) oasis Bedouins
Chapter 5: islamic civilization
Vocabulary
Islam
Arabian Peninsula
Madinah (Medina)
Makkah (Mecca)
oasis
Bedouins
nomad
sheikh
caravan
Quran
Shari’ah
Sunna(h)
Muslim
Prophet
Allah
Hijrah
Monotheism
Pilgrimage
Mosque
Kaaba
Muhammad
Caliph
Sunni
Shia
sultan
bazaar
astrolabe
minarets