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• Look at the map on page 283. Write 3 things you can tell about the Islamic World• Looking at the map below, make 3 inferences
about the geography of the Arabian Peninsula
• caliph nomads• caravans Mecca• Muslim mosque
Vocabulary• Write each of these words on your paper
skipping 1 line between each word.
** As we go through the PowerPoint find the definition and write it beside the word
GEOGRAPHY• A peninsula in southwestern
Asia• Surrounded by what bodies
of water?• Persian Gulf, Arabian
Sea, & Red Sea
• 3 environmental areas• mountains (west)• fertile land (east)• desert (inner)
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• Empty Quarter–• World’s largest continuous body
of sand• Uninhabitable• No rain for 10 years
or more
• Some have huge hills of
sand• Some have stone cliffs
Empty
OASIS:• Watered by underground
springs
• Can support plants and animal life
name for people from
Arabian Peninsula
Sabaean Nabataea
Bedouins
BEDOUINS(8)
• Lived and traveled in
family groups
WEAVING
WOVEN RUG
BedouinsName means people of the
desert (7)
• Traveled in caravans through desert
SEE CARAVANS
Caravans
Sabaean People (1)Lived in mountains (Yemen)
Agriculture:
Herded sheep & goats• Grew grapes & wheat• Built irrigation canals
• Developed coastal towns-• Traded with Egypt- across
Red Sea
Nabataea: (3)
• From the North• Water from
aqueducts• Only place with
water for hundreds of miles
• Flourished for 400 years (6)
• Capital–
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Petra disappeared from most maps and was known only through ancient lore. In 1812 Swiss traveler Johann Burckhardt stole into the mythic city disguised as a Muslim trader and told the world about what he found
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Reliefs carved on walls
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Marble basin from Temple
Maintaining a continuous source of water in a land that receives only six inches of rain a year was necessary to Petra’s existence. Petra’s inhabitants, the Nabataeans, were masters of hydrology. Pipes like these carried water to the city. Photograph by Peter Winkler© 1998 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved.
Terra-cotta bowl
5 PILLARS
QURAN
ISLAM
Muhammad-
“submit to the will of
Allah” Prophet of Allah
Holy Book
1. Belief in 1 God/Muhammad is prophet of God
2. Prayers 5 times per day
3. Give to those in need
4. Ramadan- month- fasting
5. Pilgrimage to Mecca
KAABA
Material to cover Kaaba
Mecca’s templeThousands of Muslims
come each yearMust walk
around Kaaba 7
times and pray
MUSLIM CALIPHATE
Caliphs
Chosen to govern land and religion of Islam
Capital of Caliphate from 700- 1200
Architecture
MedicineAstronomy
Art
Language
Knowledge
Music
Literatur
e
ARCHITECTURE
Avicenna
A famous Muslim doctor lived in
Persia in the early 1,000s
Diseases spread through the air
Stress causes stomach problems
Cancer could be fought with surgery
Avicenna wrote that:
Had mobile (moving) hospitals
Arabic Numbers
We still use a form of these numbers today
Much easier to use than Roman Numerals
Astronomy
Islamic calendar based on moon’s movement
Stars used to determine direction
Astrolabe- used to figure out positions from the
starsZodiac
Guitar
Oud- became known as a
lute
The House of Wisdom
Works of knowledge from all over the world were translated and preserved
One of the world’s first and largest libraries
Math & Science
Architecture
MedicineAstronomy
Art
Language
Knowledge
Music
Literatur
e
Math & Science
Muslim doctors invented Arabic numbers to make it easier to calculate doses of
medicine
Made great strides in the calculations of
“Algebra”
Poetry
Literature
Folk Tales
Well loved among the
people of ancient Baghdad
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Ali Baba and the 40
Thieves
Scheherazadetold tales to save her life
Aladdin
Stories from Persia India Arabia
