Fill in the Blank.
1. Islam is the religion that Muslims practice and it is based on the teachings of the prophet ____.
2. The ____ is the pilgrimage to Mecca, a holy city for Muslims in order to show faith.
3. During the Ages, Christian monks lived in ____ where they could commit their lives to their faith.
4. _____ was the economic, political, and social system that was established in Europe after the Roman Empire fell.
5. During the Middle Ages, Europeans staged a series of religious wars in the Middle East. These wars were known as the _____.
6. During the Middle Ages people were expected to pay a _____, or 10% of their earnings to the church.
7. ______ are a sect of Islam that believes the leader of the religion should be from the bloodline of Muhammad, specifically through this cousin, Ali.
8. The Holy Book of the Islamic faith is called the _____.
9. _______ was a Sunni lead Caliphate centered around Damascus that expanded the Islamic empire from 661-750AD, until overthrown by a Shia lead Caliphate.
10. Shia caliphate centered around Baghdad that established control over the Islamic Empire from 750-1258 CE reigning over the Golden Age of Islam was the _______ Caliphate.
11. The ______ was a center for scholarly studies during the Golden Age of Islam located in Baghdad.
12. ______ was the Catholic Church's rules for that stated that knight cannot harm people that cannot defend themselves and the stoppage of fighting on holy days.
13. Pope ______ called for the First Crusade at his speech in Clermont, France, calling for people to take up the cross and destroy the infidels in the Holy Land.
14. The _______ is the temple of Abraham in Mecca that was cleansed of pagan idols by Muhammad in 632.
15. _______ was a leader of a nomadic warrior society from central Asia whose invasion into Europe displaced Germanic barbarian groups into Roman territory leading to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
1. Muhammad
2. Hajj
3. Monasteries
4. Feudalism
5. Crusades
6. Tithe
7. Shia
8. Quran
9. Umayyad
10. Abbasid
11. House of Wisdom
12. Peace and truce of God
13. Urban II
14. Kaaba
15. Atilla the Hun