Monday 8/30/10

Turn in Me Tree 3 min - Quiz 5 min - Wikispaces tutorial 10 min - Ch. 11 Part I 20 min - Primary Document and

discussion H.W. – Wiki paragraph write

CHAPTER 11The Black Death Islamic Empires

The Black Death How did it happen? What were the primary effects?

Petrarch of Parma on the Plague - 1348 My brother! My brother! My brother! A new beginning to a letter,

though used by Marcus Tullius [Cicero] fourteen hundred years ago. Alas! my beloved brother, what shall I say? How shall I begin? Whither shall I turn? On all sides is sorrow; everywhere is fear. I would, my brother, that I had never been born, or, at least, had died before these times. How will posterity believe that there has been a time when without the lightnings of heaven or the fires of earth, without wars or other visible slaughter, not this or that part of the earth, but well-nigh the whole globe, has remained without inhabitants. When has any such thing been even heard or seen; in what annals has it ever been read that houses were left vacant, cities deserted, the country neglected, the fields too small for the dead and a fearful and universal solitude over the whole earth?... Oh happy people of the future, who have not known these miseries and perchance will class our testimony with the fables. We have, indeed, deserved these [punishments] and even greater; but our forefathers also have deserved them, and may our posterity not also merit the same...

(M.R., ed: D.S.) Adapted from: George Deaux, The Black Death 1347. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1969. Chapter IV, pp. 92-94.

How did new rulers rebuild legitimacy after the Plague?

THE ISLAMIC HEARTLAND AND INDIA

What were the similarities and differences between the Ottoman, Safivid, and Mughal Empires?

Primary Document Discussions

“Talk to the text” as we read. Put ? next to points you don’t understand,

then ask. When you answer a question, try to use

evidence from the text to support your interpretations and analysis.

When responding to another student, use their name.

Take notes using a T chart: “my thoughts” and “friends’ thoughts”

Use information from the text, your classmates, and your own thoughts to answer the paragraph writes.

Letter from BusbecqDescribes Ottomans to Austria, 1550’s What does Busbecq’s first meeting with Suleiman

reveal about the sultan’s attitudes toward Europeans? What does Busbecq see as the main difference

between Ottoman and European attitudes toward social privilege and inherited status? How does he think these attitudes affect Ottoman government?

What were the advantages and disadvantages of the Ottoman attitudes toward imperial succession?

How would you describe Suleiman, from this description?

Wiki paragraph write: Do you agree with the 16th century European label, “Suleiman the Magnificent”? Explain using evidence.

Ottoman Empire Founded 1453 – conquered Constantinople

(Istanbul) Military strength

Janissaries Disrupted European - East Asian trade

routes Culture: blended

Greco-Roman/Byzantine with Islamic Sultan Suleiman I: Named “the

Magnificent” by Europeans. Ruled over a Golden Age.

Diversity and merit system Deshirme – 4 Social Classes: Men of the: Pen;

Sword; Negotiation; husbandry Millets – non-Muslim religious

communities Decline

Women and Islamic Law in the Ottoman Empire

In making arrangements for marriage, how much legal authority is exercised by the following: the future husband and wife Fathers and grandfathers Male relatives of the future husband and wife

What do the divorce cases reveal about the obligations of husbands to their wives?

What rights does a married woman have against an abusive husband?

How did Khayr al-Din Ramli view rapists and abductors of women? What penalties are prescribed for perpetrators of such crimes?

In one case a widow is appointed by her dying husband to be guardian of their children. What does this reveal about inheritance practices?

Wiki paragraph write: What do you think about women’s legal standing in 17th C Syria-Palestine? What situations and laws affect your opinion?

youtube.com

Ottoman Empire part I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jE7y5vT5M

What were the major events in the Rise of the Ottomans?

Safavid Empire Persian Roots Rise of Faith in wake of Mongol

destruction Theocratic authority Shiite Islam

Beliefs appeal

Persecutions Ismael I Shah Abbas I

United the Iranian empire in 1501 Divinely ordained to rule Suppressed rebellion

Fell apart in 1736. Became Iran in 1979

Letter to Shah Ismail of PersianOttoman Sultan Selim I letter to Ismail I, early 1500’s Even though Selim’s letter is designed to malign

Shiism, not define Islam, it contains many references to essential Muslim beliefs? Which ones can you find?

What does Selim’s letter reveal about differences between Sunnis and Shias?

How does Selim perceive himself within the Islamic world?

Selim must have realized that the deeply religious Ismail was unlikely to abandon Shiism. Why might he have written the letter to deaf ears?

Wiki paragraph write: Write a response from Ismail I.

Mughals

1526-1857 Descended from

the Timurids Sunni-Muslims Babur Hindu-Muslim

Conflict

OTTOMANS Sunni Islam;

Christian Subjects;

archrivals of Europeans

SAFIVIDS Shiite Islam;

few non-Muslim

subjects; good relations with

Europe

SIMILARITIES Islamic; absolute

ruler; military origin; flourished

in arts; strong economic start;

weakened in mid 1600’s

MUGHALS Hindu

subjects; eventual

trade with Europeans

H.W. - Wiki paragraph write: