History exam Vocab

Allah-  

Muhammad-

 Islam-

Shahada- 

Sawm- 

 Zakat- 

Salat-  

Ramadan- 

 Kaaba- 

 Muslim- 

 Mosque-  

Hijrah- 

Hajj- 

Qur’an- 

Shari’a- 

Sunni-  

Shi’a-  

Sufi- 

The Five Pillars-

 Caliph-

 Dome of the Rock-

 Umayyads-

Abbasids-

 Jihad- 

House of Wisdom-

 Damascus-

 Baghdad- 

The Gunpowder Empires-

 Ottoman Empire- 

Safavid Empire-

 Mughal Empire-

Shah Abbas I- 

Babur-

Akbar- 

 Genghis Kahn- 

Pax Mongolica- 

Kublai Khan-

 Marco Polo-

 Steppe-

 Pastoralists-  nomads that herd domesticated animals

Tang Taizong-  

Wu Zhao- 

movable type- 

 Gentry-  

Gunpowder- 

compass- 

Tang code- 

Scholar-officials- 

 civil service exams- 

standardized testing-   

Jinshi- 

terrace farming- 

 Justinian- 

 Justinian code- 

 Hagia Sophia- 

 Icon- 

 Excommunication- 

Cyrillic alphabet- 

Justinian’s Plague- 

 Vatican city- 

Great Schism- 

 Slavs-

 Don River-  

Dnieper River- 

Volga River-

 Moscow-

Kiev- 

Novgorod- 

 Rurik- 

Vladimir- 

Yaroslav the Wise- 

 Ivan III- 

 Ivan IV-
Czar-

 Varangians-

 Rus- 

Primary Chronicle- 

Boyars- 

 Alexander Nevsky- 

Pravda- 

Oprichniki-