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AP World History Unit 3 Review Latest 2022 Already Passed Mayas ✔✔A Native American people, living in what is now Mexico and northern Central America, who had a flourishing civilization from be... fore the birth of Jesus until around 1600, when they were conquered by the Spanish. They are known for their astronomical observations, accurate calendars sophisticated hieroglyphics, and pyramids. Aztecs ✔✔(1200-1521) 1300, they settled in the valley of Mexico. Grew corn. Engaged in frequent warfare to conquer others of the region. Worshipped many gods (polytheistic). Believed the sun god needed human blood to continue his journeys across the sky. Practiced human sacrifices and those sacrificed were captured warriors from other tribes and those who volunteered for the honor. Incas ✔✔A Native American people who built a notable civilization in western South America in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The center of their empire was in present-day Peru. Francisco Pizarro of Spain conquered the empire. Chinampas ✔✔floating gardens Moche ✔✔Civilization of north coast of Peru (200-700 C.E.). An important Andean civilization that built extensive irrigation networks as well as impressive urban centers dominated by brick temples. (p. 313) Toltecs ✔✔Powerful postclassic empire in central Mexico (900-1168 C.E.). It influenced much of Mesoamerica. Aztecs claimed ties to this earlier civilization. Bedouin ✔✔nomadic pastoralists of the Arabian peninsula; culture based on camel and goat nomadism; early converts to Islam. Mecca ✔✔City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, and ritual center of the Islamic religion. Medina ✔✔City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca. (p. 231) Kaaba ✔✔(Islam) a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine Mohammad ✔✔The Founder of Islam. Muslims believe that Mohammad was God's last Prophet and that he received the word of God from the angel Gabriel. 5 Pillars ✔✔make a declaration of faith, pray five times daily, give to charity, fast from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, pilgrimage to Mecca Quran ✔✔Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam. Umma ✔✔the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan Shari'a ✔✔the divine law, derived from the qur'an and the sunna, encompassing all and setting forth in detail how muslims are to live Jihad ✔✔a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal Sunni ✔✔one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam, a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad [Show More]

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