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