Transcript The Rise of the Muslim Empires

Students will use primary sources to identify the tactics used
to develop empires by the Muslims
 Recall: What are 2 of the 8 concepts of a civilization?
 Read pages 202-207 identify and define the 8 key
terms and places. Answer questions 1-3 ALL PARTS
 A new leader of Islam emerged.
 After the death of Muhammad there were multiple
incidents of people fighting for the power.
 Eventually one leader emerges
 This leader is called a caliph
 Caliph: a title that Muslims use for the highest leader of
Islam.
 Through trade Islam spread.
 Major cities of Islamic worship emerge in formally
Christian dominant areas.
 Cities like Cordoba, Spain become a place of tolerance.
 Tolerance: accepting of one another.
 As Islam spread and became major presence in cities
eventually the tolerance ended and they took control
of these cities.
 Ottomans: a group of Muslims from Turkey who were
fierce warriors who later formed an empire
 Various trade
groups spread
Islam to Europe
and Africa.
 Turn and Talk:
What do we call the
dispersion of an
idea or concept
such as religion?
 As large Muslim groups spread over the world they
enslaved many people forcing them to become
Muslims and soldiers.
 Janissaries: slave soldiers forced to convert to Islam
 The Ottomans were also intolerant to women often
being treated unequally.
 Harem: a household where women were forced to live
apart from men.
 The leader of the Ottomans. Mehmed led the siege on
Constantinople.
 Siege: the action of an armed force that surrounds a
fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
Taking over by force.
 Mehmed and other Ottoman leaders grew the
Ottoman lands by 30 times in about 350 years.
 Once a great Catholic
church Mehmed
converted it into a
Mosque.
 Turn and talk:
Analyze the map
and create a list of
what you think are
pros and cons to the
expansion of the
Ottoman Empire.
 The forceful nature of the Ottomans angered some
groups and eventually led to their downfall.
 The Safavid Empire: A group of Persian Muslims who
disliked the Ottomans
 Angered by the different beliefs the Ottomans had the
Safavids eventually conquer part of the Ottoman
empire.
 Turn and Talk: How do you think Muslim groups can
have different beliefs?
 Sunni: believed that no relation to Mohammad was
needed to be caliph.
 Shia: believe only decedents of Mohammad can be
caliph
 Draw a venn diagram into your notebook. Then read the
below text and compare and contrast the Ottomans and the
Safavids.
The Ottoman Empire spread throughout Western Arabia, Asia Minor, Sourthern Europe
and northern Africa in only 350 years. Using force they gained control a lot of land;
spreading their Sunni Muslim ways. This angered some people. In particular, a Shia
group from Persia called the Safavids were angry with the way they were treated by the
Ottomans and the beliefs of that were being spread by the Ottomans. Like the Ottomans
the Safavid’s forced non-Muslims into slavery and forced them to convert to Islam and
serve as soldiers. Like all early Muslim societes trade played an important role in the
growth of both the Ottoman and Safavid empires. Ottomans traveled around collectiong
spices, fabrics and other valuable items to distribute around their empire. The Safavids
relied mostly on the natural resources available to them such as steel, handwoven
carpets and cermaics.