Midterm
Across
- 1. belief in many gods
- 3. Social groups into which you are born and cannot be changed
- 4. valuable product
- 5. Most sacred temple of Islam, located in Mecca, said to have been built by Abraham and rededicated to God by Muhammad
- 7. Respect for parents
- 9. land ruled by a sultan
- 10. Anointed King sent by God
- 14. Rebirth of the soul into another bodily form
- 17. king of Ghana
- 20. Indian written language
- 23. Warriors
- 25. Smaller group inside a larger organization (sub group)
- 27. Journey from Mecca to Yathrib (Medina) made by Muhammad and his followers in 622
- 29. A city of western Saudi Arabia near the coast of the Red Sea. The birthplace of Muhammad, and thus the holiest city for Muslims.
- 32. Rise and fall of dynasties
- 33. elite Ottoman military force
- 35. Religious and moral duties of an individual that vary according to class, occupation, gender or age
- 37. land becomes parched and the desert spreads
- 40. Complete control of a product or business by one person or group
- 44. “The way” of the universe
- 45. combined Hindu and Muslim beliefs
- 47. Increasing amount of territory under a leaders rule
- 50. Submission to the will of God
- 51. Collection of hymns, chants, ritual instructions and other religious teachings; Aryan priests memorized and recited for thousands of years - (oral tradition)
- 53. Trade routes that linked China to the West
- 54. money, food, or other donations given to the poor or needy; anything given as charity
- 55. the abode of Islam, areas where Islam is practiced
- 59. The spread of ideas, culture and technology from one people to another through trade, migration and warfare.
- 62. Laws given by God to Moses that tell Jews how to behave in their daily lives.
- 66. A period of great cultural achievement
- 68. kings of Mali
- 69. “Way of the warrior” Code of values that emphasized honor, bravery and absolute loyalty to one’s lord
- 70. ability to move in social class
- 71. all the actions of a person's life that affect his or her fate in the next life
- 72. split
- 73. System of ideas
- 77. Organization in which officials are arranged according to rank
- 78. Special regard for
- 80. Nonviolence
- 82. authority
- 83. A member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad
Down
- 1. highest church official in the Byzantine Empire
- 2. a complex, highly organized social order: eight features are cities, well-organized central government, complex religion, job specialization, social classes, arts and architecture, public works, and writing.
- 6. Single spiritual power that resides in all things
- 8. deadly tidal waves that emerge from earthquakes
- 10. Muslim house of worship
- 11. Animal bones or turtle shells on which priests wrote questions to the gods or ancestors. They were heated until they cracked and the cracks provided answers or advice.
- 12. The three baskets of wisdom, a collection of Buddha’s teachings gathered after he died.
- 13. Group outside of the caste system that did work that was deemed undesirable, also called untouchables.
- 15. holy images
- 16. Blending of 2 or more cultures, a form of cultural diffusion
- 18. rapid rise in prices
- 19. slender towers of mosques from which Muslims are called to prayer
- 21. phonetic symbols representing syllables.
- 22. People who are willing to suffer or die for their beliefs
- 24. Using some traditions from another culture, but discarding others
- 26. Korean porcelain with an unusual blue-green glaze
- 28. Divine winds
- 29. A follower of Islam
- 30. Fifth pillar of Islam, refers to pilgrimage to Mecca
- 31. Spiritual leaders that emerged and interpreted God’s will
- 34. A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
- 35. payment by the bride's family to the groom
- 36. Jewish meeting place of worship
- 38. System of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military support and service and other forms of service to the rulers.
- 39. art of fancy/beautiful handwriting
- 41. Effort in God’s service
- 42. body of civil law, massive collection of laws, legal writings and handbooks for students
- 43. Herders, farmers, merchants and artisans
- 46. Binding agreement
- 48. Non-Aryans; farm workers, servants, and laborers who are at the bottom of Indian society.
- 49. Union with the universe and release from the cycle of rebirth (Buddhism)
- 52. Fathers and husbands held great legal and moral authority
- 56. is the term given to "the five duties required of every Muslim". These duties are profession of faith, ritual prayer, alms, fasting during Ramadan, and Hajj
- 57. A formal organization with many levels in which tasks, responsibilities, and authority are delegated among individuals, offices, or departments, held together by a central administration.
- 58. the sacred text of Islam, revered as the word of God, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics
- 60. Belief in one god, most religions at the time were polytheistic
- 61. foreign soldiers serving for pay, loyalty goes to the highest bidder
- 63. the Muslim political and spiritual leader, successor to Muhammad, considered t a representative of Allah on earth
- 64. Devine right to rule
- 65. Union with Brahman by breaking from selfish desires (Hindu)
- 67. Scattering of people to different parts of the world
- 74. Islamic system of law based on the Quran, regulates all aspects of a Muslim’s life, no separation of religion from civil or criminal law
- 75. Priests
- 76. Korean alphabet using symbols to represent the sounds of spoken Korean
- 79. First five books of the Jewish Bible, tells how Jews should live and the history of its people
- 81. Essential self (kind of like a soul)