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Pre-AP World: Stearns Outline Chapter 6 (pgs. 121 – 145)
Vocabulary: Use a dictionary to define the following words:
1. Islam
2. Muhammad
3. Muslims
4. Qur’an
5. Bedouin
6. Mecca
7. Oasis
8. Animism
9. Persecute
10. Hijra
11. Zakat
12. Autocracy
13. Zoroastrianism
Chapter 6 - The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam
I)
Introduction
A) Explain how cultural diffusion helped spread the Islamic civilization?
B) What areas of Muslim education elevated Arabic to the status of the international language of the
educated and reformed?
II)
Desert and Town: The Arabian World and the Birth of Islam
1) How did the Bedouin world shape Islam?
A) Clan Identity, Clan Rivalries, and the Cycle of Vengeance
2) Describe the importance of family in the Bedouin clans.
3) Define in detail Shaykhs.
4) Wars broke out within clans as a result of what?
B) Towns and Long-Distance Trade
5) Explain how cultural diffusion might have affected the transcontinental trading system?
6) Explain the importance the Ka’ba had on the city of Mecca.
C) Marriage and Family in Pre-Islamic Arabia
7) How did the role of women in the Bedouin culture differ from those in Syria and Persia?
8) Why were women not considered equal to men?
D) Poets and Neglected Gods
9) The main focus of Bedouin culture creativity in pre-Islamic era was _______________.
10) Why was poetry transmitted orally?
11) Religion had little to do with ethics but rather, standards of morality and proper behavior rooted
in tribal customs and
.
III) The Life of Muhammad and the Genesis of Islam
12) Describe the hardships of Muhammad’s early life.
13) How was Muhammad exposed to cultures other than those in Arabia and what did he learn?
14) What was the cause of new tensions between clan and tribal groupings?
15) Muhammad grew increasingly distracted and dissatisfied with a life focused on
16) Describe what Muhammad received in 610 C.E.
A) Persecution, Flight, and Victory
17) What did Muhammad’s teaching threaten the most?
18) Umayyads sought to
Muhammad.
19) Explain why the Quraysh launched a series of attacks on Muhammad and his followers.
B) Arabs and Islam
20) What did Muhammad’s new religion have to offer to the divided people of Arabia?
21) Define umma and describe its importance.
22) Islam stressed the dignity of all believers and
23) What was one of the things that Islam promoted?
in the eyes of Allah.
.
C) Universal Elements in Islam
24) How did Muhammad enhance Islam as a world religion?
25) List and Describe the Five Pillars.
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IV)
The Empire of the Umayyads
26) What areas did the warriors of Islam conquer?
A) Consolidation and Division in the Islamic Community
27) Define caliph and explain why it was a source of division later.
B) Motives for Arab Conquests
28) What were the invaders reasons to avoid mass conversions?
29) Define Jihads.
C) Weakness of the Adversary Empires
30) Why did Christian groups rally behind the Arabs and not the Byzantines?
D) The Problem of Succession and the Sunni-Shi’a Split
31) What was the impact of the death of Uthman?
32) Who was Ali?
33) Describe the difference between Sunnis and Shi’a.
E) The Umayyad Imperium
34) By the early 700’s, the Umayyads ruled an empire that extended from
.
35) Describe the difference between Mecca and Damascus.
36) Describe the requirements and benefits of being a first class citizen of the Umayyad rule.
F) Converts and “People of the Book”
37) Did Umayyad attempts to block extensive interaction between the Muslim warrior elite and their
non-Muslim subjects work?
38) What does it mean to be “people of the book”?
39) What did the “people of the book” have to do to be able to worship as they pleased?
G) Family and Gender Roles in the Umayyad Age
40)
Explain Muhammad’s views on marriage and the relationship between men and women.
41) How did Muhammad strengthen the legal right of women in regards to inheritance and divorce?
42) Define hadiths and explain their significance in the role of women.
H) Umayyad Decline and Fall
43) What was the significance of the Battle on the River Zab and how did Abu al-Abbas eliminate the
Umayyad family?
V) From Arab to Islamic Empire: the Early Abbasid Era
44) Abbasids rejected many of their old allies, becoming more and more righteous in their defense of
Sunni Islam and increasingly
of what they called the heretical views of the
various sects of Shi’ism.
45) What was the new capital of Abbasids?
A) Islamic Conversion and Mawali Acceptance
46) Define Mawali.
47) Why did people convert to Islam?
B) Town and Country: Commercial Boom and Agrarian Expansion
48) What was the money from trade used for?
49) Describe what influenced the growth of Abbasid cities?
C) The First Flowering of Islamic Learning
50) Explain how Muslim people contributed to cultural diffusion.