ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS JEOPARDY
Religion Jeopardy
Final Category
Religions
Islamic
Empires
Early Arabia
GEARS
Misc.
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Three Islam basics described in
the beginning of the unit.
Answer
Islam is NOT a country
Islam is a religion
Muslims are people who
practice Islam
10 Points
Followers of Islam
Answer
Who are Muslims?
20 Points
The belief in one God
Answer
What is monotheism?
30 Points
Two vocabulary words we
learned this unit. 1. means
reasonable, acceptable, right.
2. means of known origin.
Answer
1. Justified
2. Authentic
40 Points
Difference between a primary
source and a secondary source.
Answer
What is a reasonable answer
50 Points
Term meaning successor to the
messenger of God.
Answer
What is a caliph?
10 Points
Surprise!
If you get the correct answer, the
point value for this question will
be doubled.
This group burned Bagdad
ending the Arab empire.
Answer
Who are the Mongols?
20 Points
This group ruled the
government and army for the
Abbasid Dynasty.
Answer
Who were the Seljuk Turks?
30 Points
The first four caliphs to rule
the Arab Empire after the
death of Muhammad.
Answer
Who were the Rightly Guided
Caliphs
40 Points
Three ways Muslims built a
successful Arab Empire
Answer
What are being good warriors,
fighting with religious inspiration,
letting conquered people practice
their own religion?
50 Points
A group of traveling merchants
and animals
Answer
What is a caravan?
10 Points
Green areas fed by
underground water found in the
middle of a desert
Answer
What is are oases?
20 Points
The head of an early Arab tribe
Answer
What is a sheikh?
30 Points
Desert herders that traveled
from oasis to oasis.
Answer
What were bedouins?
40 Points
The largest and richest town in
Arabia
Answer
What is Makkah/ Mecca?
Bonus Question:
This must be answered for 30 of the 50 points
What is located in its center?
50 Points
The “holder of power”
Answer
What is a sultan?
10 Points
Another word for marketplace
Answer
What is a bazaar?
20 Points
Four types of Islamic Art
Answer
What is geometric, calligraphic,
organic/figural, and
medallions?
30 Points
Two accomplishments of Muslim
scientists
Answer
What is the development of
chemistry, discovery of Earth being
round, and the discovery that
blood circulates through the body?
40 Points
The five pillars of Islam
Answer
What are belief, prayer,
charity, fasting, and pilgrimage?
50 Points
The holy book of Islam
Answer
What is the Quran?
10 Points
Muslim house of worship
Answer
What is a mosque?
20 Points
Two exports and two imports of
Muslim merchants.
Answer
What are exports: spices, cloth,
glass, and carpets; imports:
rubies, silk, ivory, gold, and
slaves?
30 Points
Two groups of Islam that
developed different religious
practices and customs.
Answer
What are Sunni and Shiite?
Bonus Question:
This must be answered for 20 of the 40
points
Why did they split?
40 Points
Battle in which the geography
of northern Spain and southern
France played a role in a rare
Muslim defeat.
Answer
Battle of Tours
50 Points
Final Category:
Social Studies
Vocabulary
The parts of the earth
diametrically opposite —usually
used in plural —often used of
Australia and New Zealand as
contrasted to the western
hemisphere
Answer
What are antipodes?
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