Ch. 11 Reading Guide

Around 610 CE, Islam, a new religion, arose in the ________ Peninsula.

Muhammad was to be God's ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   the teachings of Islam among the people of the Arabian Peninsula. A holy book of Islam, the ​ (c)   , contained the ​ (d)   of the ​ (e)   .

• messenger
• spread
• Quran
• rules
• religon
• communicator
• Torah

What are the Five Pillars of Islam?

Match the following

• Sunni

• The largest group of Muslim followers

• Shiite

• name for the pilgrimage Muslims must take

• Ramadan

• the ninth month of the Islamic year, during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset

• Muslim Holy Book

• Quran

• Hajj

• a smaller group of Muslim followers who believed the next ruler should be a decendant of Muhammad

a romal split into opposing parties

In western Africa, two important commodities were _____ and ____.

​ (a)   came from ​ (b)   , and people from the rain forest in ​ (c)   didn't have any. They wanted it for ​ seasoning and to ​ (d)   , so they traded ​ (e)   for salt.

• Salt
• central Sahara
• West Africa
• preserve meat
• gold
• salt their roads
• money
• Pepper

​ (a)   seized control of the ​ (b)   trade with the help of their leader ​ (c)   who ​ (d)   neighboring lands and helped Mali grow ​ (e)   from trade.

• Mali
• salt and gold
• Sundiata
• conquered
• rich
• Ghana
• Mansa Musa
• traded
• poor

_____ _____ ruled from 1312 to 1337 and created a strong central government, dividing the kingdom into provinces ruled by governors.

He built ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   to make the city of ​ (c)   not only a wealthy ​ (d)   city but also a center of ​ (e)   and culture.

• mosques
• libraries
• Timbuktu
• trading
• learning
• temples
• schools
• Alexandria