Transcript Ch.11 slavs and islam

The Growth of Islam
Once Muhammad began to spread
the Muslim faith, several “rightly
guided Caliphs”
began to actively
encourage the
spread of Islam
in the 600’s.
The Muslim armies were mostly
Arab. They took Syria, Palestine,
Iraq, Persia, and Egypt. Muslim
traders took the
religious message
into Africa.
In the Muslim faith, there is a duty
to actively spread Islam. How
might this cause problems?
“Between two types of men who
seek to create inconsistent kinds of
worlds, I see no alternative but
force. It seems that all societies rest
on the death of men.”
- Francis Bacon
See page 280. Islam spread from
the Arabian peninsula north into
Persia and West into Africa. Can
you see
where the
roadblock
was for their
expansion? Halt you
Muslims!
The Muslim armies even took over
Spain! But success caused
problems. Many leaders fought
against one another for control of
the Muslim
empire.
By the 1100’s (the time of the
Crusades), the Muslim states had an
advanced knowledge of Chemistry,
Medicine, Astronomy, Geography,
Math, History, and Philosophy. So
why didn’t they emerge from the
Middle Ages first?
The battle over control of the
Medieval world will be centered on
Jerusalem, which was under Muslim
control
in
1100.
The Eastern Slavs
Living in what we now call
Russia, the slavs traded and
worked with the Byzantines
until they were conquered by
the Mongols in 1240 AD.
The Eastern Slavs lived on the
steppe (grassland plains) north of
the Black Sea.
Most of them
were farmers.
From 860 to 1100, the Slavs were
allied with (or ruled by) the Vikings
of Scandinavia.
The Viking Rurik
was a great ruler.
I get down
with my
bad self!
Rurik’s successor, Oleg, enlarged
the village of Kiev to a great trading
city. After this success, the Slavs
began raiding the Byzantine empire.
Their alliances had
shifted once the
Vikings took control.
Later, Prince
Vladimir was so
impressed with
the Hagia Sophia
that he converted
to Christianity
(along with his
empire.)
Most of the Slavic empire was taken
over by the Mongols in 1240, but
Alexander Nevsky stopped them at
the Neva
River.
I got’cher
Mongol right
here buddy!
Much later, after Constantinople fell
to the Turks, Moscow stood alone as
the center of the Eastern Orthodox
Church. This “Third Rome” was a
true empire with
much of the
religious heritage
of Rome.