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Islam
1. On a separate sheet of paper define the following terms:
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Hijrah
Alms
Kaaba
Five Pillars of Faith
Quran
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Sharia
Mecca
Medina
Umma
People of the Book
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Caliph
Sunni
Shite
Sufis
Vizier
2. Place the following events on a timeline. Label clearly.
Muhammad’s vision from Gabriel--610
Hijra--622
Muhammad’s return to Mecca--630
Death of Muhammad--632
Rule of the first four caliphs—632-661
Umayyad Caliphate—661-750
Abbasids—750-1258
Golden Ages—750-850
Umayyad rule of Spain—756-1031
Seljuk Turks take control of Baghdad—1055
Hulegu [grandson of Genghis Khan] kills last of the Abbasid Caliphs—1258
3. Document Based Assessment
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In the 8 century, Arab armies spread Islam across North Africa and deep into Asia. Muslim traders advanced in
their wake, taking control of established trade routes on both continents. Pilgrims followed these same routes on
their annual hajj to Mecca, eastward from Africa and westward from Asia. Trade and religion united this vast
empire, as the documents below illustrate.
Document A
“Under the Abbasids, the center of the Muslim world was the city of Baghdad [Gift of God], founded by Caliph alMansur in 762 on the west bank of the Tigris…The site was not chosen by inadvertence, for the Muslims had taken
over the existing long-distance networks that had operated in the East for centuries…if the pilgrimage caravans
made only one round trip a year in the prescribed season, it was the traders who, as always, kept the Silk Road
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active all the year round. By the 9 century some Arab traders had pushed overland to China.”
--From The Silk Road by Irene M Franck and David M Brownstone
Document B
A muezzin calls Muslims to prayer in Urumqi, China
Document C
“The speed of the Arab conquest of North Africa had been made possible because of the way the Arabs treated the
desert as a highway rather than an obstacle… [Control of the Sahara] gave the Arab conquerors immediate control
of the inland caravan routes, which had previously been controlled by independent tribal powers…These inland
routes, were put to immediate use by merchants, messengers, military reinforcements and mecca-bound pilgrims,
for they were less dangerous than maritime travel”
--From A Traveler’s History of North Africa by Barnaby Rogerson
Document D
African and Arab Muslims on a merchant ship
Analyzing Document: After your timeline write out the question and the correct answer.
1. According to Document A, one reason the
Abbasids chose Baghdad as their capital was the
city’s
a. religious significance to pilgrims
b. lack of merchants
c. location near the Silk Road
d. strategic location for Arab armies
3. According to Document C, the Arabs did not
consider the Sahara an obstacle. Why?
a. the Sahara was vast, hot, and dry
b. the Arabs knew that their enemies would get lost
there
c. the Arabs liked traveling on large, hot highways
d. the Arabs were used to traveling in the desert
2. Documents B and D support the statement that
a. all Muslims are Arabs
b. all Arabs are Muslim
c. Muslims are ethnically diverse
d. Muslims only traded over land
4. Writing Task: In what sense did the Muslim trade
routes make up a true “network”? Use these
documents and your knowledge of world history.
This should be in paragraph form with multiple
sentences.
5. Read the following pages in your textbook to describe the role of women from pre- Islamic Arabia and
throughout the different caliphates. Be sure to establish women’s role and rights before Islam and then note
any changes for women in your paragraph. [Pages 131; 139-141; 154-155]