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| What are the four enviornments of the Arabian Peninsula? What was each like and how did people adapt to the diffrent enviornments? |
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The four enviornments were: the desert, the oases, the mountains, and the coastal plains.
The desert was very dry with and can come to a temp of 120+ and drop to below freezing. Rain came in flash floods. The iregular rain caused small tusts of grass to sping op here and there.
The oases were mad from water build up. Plant life was numerous. It was "paradise".
The mountains caught the mist from the Indian ocean wich resulted in up to 20 inches of rain yearly. Cool and rainy weeather with an occasional winter frost.
The coalstal plain ends in a series of rocks. Sevral dry rivr bed cut through and fill with water periodicaly. Has a few natural harbors which is ideal for trade
In the dessert, the nomads wandered from place to place with their heards. Eating from the land and animals and trading for any other neccessities.
In the oases, some nomads gave up their wandering life and began farming and trading. They grew fruits, vegetables, spices, and palm. They made palm houses. Built wells for easy acsess to water
In the mountains they made mud and brick houses and tarises for farming. Made irrigation systems and dams. Collected tree sap.
In the coastal plains, they also grew fruits/vegetables and made irrigation/dams. |
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| A religon that means "submission to the will of Allah [God]". Followers of Islam are called Muslims |
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| Arabs were mostly bedouins who traveled from place to place and worshiped many idols at the Kabah |
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| An empty cube-shaped structure located in Mecca. The first Kabahstands as the first building dedicated to the worship of God. |
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| The city in Saudi Arabia which is considered to be the holiest Muslim city. It is the birth place to Muhammad. Muslims face Mecca five times a day to pray. |
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| According to Islam, he was the man who recieved revalations from God. Became God's messanger and leader of the Muslim comunity. |
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| One who utters divinely inspired revalations; one gifted with more than ordinary spiritual and moral insite. |
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| the holy book of Islam; composed of sacred writtings accepted by Muslims as Allah's revalations to Muhammad. |
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| The Imam is the leader of congregational prayer performedin the mosque. |
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| What are 3 ways Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are similar? |
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1. Worship the same God
2. Monotheistic
3. Scripture based |
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| What are 3 ways Christianity, Judaism, and Islam differ? |
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1. believe Jesus is a moral man insired by God, not the son of God
2. Not named after founder
3. Percive the Quran and a refinement of the Torah and Bible
(4. No heirarchial religeous leaders) |
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| What are the 5 pillars of Islam? |
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1. Shahadad-Declaration of faith towards Allah (There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger)
2. Salat-Prayer towards Mecca 5 times a day. (Cleansing, call to prayer, reciting and traditional movements)
3. Zakzt-Alms giving or welfare contribution (2.5% required, rich give more)
4. Sawm-Fasting durring Ramadan (starts a cressent moon; fast only durring daylight hours; all fast exept kids, sich, elderly, ect.)
5. Hajj-pilgrimahe to Mecca. |
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| What are the differences between Sunni ans Shiite Muslims? |
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Sunni: majority of Musslims; believes leader bust be from the trie of Muhammad; usually have one government and one religeous leader
Shiites: Only about 10-15%; believes the ruler should be from Mauhammad's family; believes leader of religon and state should be one person, not one for each. |
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| A series of holy wars fought between Muslims, Christians, and Jews over Jerusalem. |
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| What is the Israli/Palestinian Conflict? |
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| A vary violent confilict, between the Israli military and Hamas over Israel. |
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| How can the Israli/Palistinian conflict be solved? |
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| If everyone got together and talked about it. |
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| How are the rights of women diffrent or simmilar to the rights of men? |
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| Men and women have equal rights |
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| How is their Adam and Eve story diffrent from ous? Which religon grants more equality? |
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| In their Adam and Eve story, Adam and Eve sinned together and were forgiven together. There was no one person's fault nor any temptation. Islam grants grater equality. |
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| What do Muslim women wear? |
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| They wear a hijab or a burqa. |
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| Why do Muslim women wear what they wear? |
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| So thet they are looked at as a human being, not as a woman. |
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| What is Jihad and"making Jihad"? |
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| Jihad is to strive or work for somthing with determanation. To "make jihad" to do any action to further the cause of God, no matter how great or small. |
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| Would Muhammad agree with terrorists clariming bomb, suicide bomb, and kill inocent people as an act of Jihad? Why or why not? Give at least 3 reasons. |
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| No because the Qiran says not to kill hte inosent, not to kill unjustly, suicide is forbidden, and to respect all human life and dignity. |
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| Explaine the quote: "religon doesn't kill people, people kill people". |
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| this means that religon isn't a weapon that is used in killing, but a belief that people kill in the name of. |
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| Minaret- a prayer tower (call to prayer) |
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| Dome-looks diffrent in design from Roman (looks like an onion/hershey kiss) |
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| arch-there are sevral typer of arches, but the most common is the horse-shoe arch. |
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| mimbar-a stepped pulpit where the Imam leads prayer. The Imam always stands on the second highest step leaving the top step for Allah |
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| Mihrab- a niche indication direction of prayer (toward Mecca) and the presence of the prophet. |
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