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- 2. Mesopotamian societies made advancements in this area of schooling
- 5. Religion of the Muslims
- 7. Followers of Judaism
- 8. Belief in many gods
- 9. Arabic word for God
- 11. Mesopotamia is located in this present day country
- 13. Villages developed their own military forces and this system to help manage their civilization
- 15. Group of Muslim tribes that built an empire that revived Islamic expansion from 1299-1922
- 17. Islam spread through military conquests, scholars, traders, and by religious
- 19. Cities in Mesopotamia represented the world's first
- 21. Religion of the Israelites
- 22. an ethnic group in Southwestern Asia that has occupied Kurdistan, located in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, for about a thousand years, and who have been involved in clashes with these three countries over land claims for most of the 20th century
- 23. Mohammed's successors
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- 1. Fertile plain between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
- 2. Regarded as the last and greatest prophet by Muslims
- 3. Belief in one God
- 4. Founder of the Mongol Empire.
- 6. Arab scholars made advancements inmath and
- 10. a period of one thousand years
- 12. five acts of worship required of all Muslims
- 14. Founder of Christianity
- 16. The writing system of Mesopotamian societies
- 18. Holy month of Islam
- 20. Mesopotamian society that invented sophisticated irrigation and farming methods
