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.

• 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)

See for yourself!!

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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–

Click here to enter Petra

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

Click any picture to enter museum

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

LANGUAGE

Click here to see some Arabic letters

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