March 30th Unit 5.5 Day 1 Iraq

1. Grab a separate sheet of paper.2. STD it and complete the warm up.

Warm up1. Belief can be defined as a feeling of being sure that someone or something exists

or that something is true or a feeling that something is good, right, or valuable. What are some beliefs you have? List at least three.

Some beliefs I have are________.

2. How did you develop these beliefs? Or from who/whom/where?3. How do you your beliefs influence your behavior or individual choices?

Notebook Set upEntry:______ Label it Unit 5.5 Day 1 Islamic

Empire

Learning Target: I will examine three different documents and make a hypotheses on how the

Islamic Empire expanded.

Essential Questions Free Write

1. How and why do beliefs change?

Write for 3 minutes. Use personal examples

Vocabulary

Caliph-the title of the successors of Mohammed as rulers of the Islamic world

Caliphate- the office, jurisdiction, or reign of a caliph

Why learn about the Islamic Empire?

To better understand what is going on right now in the Middle East it is important to understand how the Islamic Empire expanded.

Why this unit on Iraq? 2003-2011US Soldiers: As of May 29, 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Defense casualty website, there were 4,425 total deaths (including both killed in action and non-hostile) and 32,223 wounded in action (WIA) as a result of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Coalition deaths: 79 UK deaths and 139 deaths from other nations (Source: CNN)Journalists: 136 journalists and 51 media support workers ( Source : CPJ)Aid workers: 94 aid workers have been killed according to a November 21, 2007, Reuters articleContractors: At least 1,487 deaths between March 2003 and June 2011 according to the list of private contractor deaths in IraqSource: USA TodayCivilians: 66,000-110,000 Iraqi Deaths ( Sources range from The Gurdian, Associated Press, and World Health Organization”

Dawn of IslamWhere did Islam start? In 622 CE Mohammad, the

founder of islam was living in the Arabian Peninsula (Mecca and Medina.

The Peninsula at the time was home to competing tribes.

Expansion of the Early Caliphates

632–750 CE

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Arabia at the Dawn of Islam

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Expanse of the Umayyad Caliphate

How much land did the Islamic Empire cover?

● One hundred years later (750CE),

stretched across Middle East, North Africa, and even into spain.

● At largest : 5.8 million square miles

● Twice as large as Roman Empire at height

● Largest empire up to that point

How did the early Islamic empire expand?

Central Historical Question

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Expansion of the Early Caliphates

  

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In your notebook under entry ____ Unit 5.5

After examining the map on Islamic Expansion make a hypothesis for the following question:

How did the Islamic Empire Expand?

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April 1, 2015 Unit 5.5 Day 2 Warm up

1. Grab your notebook2. Grab a separate sheet of paper and STD it3. Do the warm up

WARM UP Questions: 1. How does family play a role in shaping our values and

beliefs?2. Why do we need beliefs and values?3. What happens when belief systems of societies and individuals come into conflict?

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Agenda

1. Warm up2. How did the Islamic Empire expand?

Readings3. Paragraph4. Video

FridayShi’ite, Sunni, and Kurds - Differences in beliefs.

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Activity

1. Open up your notebook to Unit 5.5. Day 1 Entry 6

2. Look at your hypothesis- How did the Islamic Empire expand?

3. Review it

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Expanse of the Umayyad Caliphate

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Document A: The Battle of the Yarmuk

1. (Sourcing) Who was al-Biladuri? Why do you think he wrote this document?

2. (Close reading) List 3 reasons why this battle was the “fiercest and bloodiest kind” Don’t forget to include CM as to why that concrete shows that the battle was fierce and bloody. 1.

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3. Do you think this document is a reliable source for determing how the Islamic Empire expanded in the 7th and 8th centuries? Why or Why not?

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Document B