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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
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
• caliph
• caravans
• Muslim
nomads
Mecca
mosque
GEOGRAPHY
• A peninsula in southwestern
Asia
• Surrounded by what bodies
of water?
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Persian Gulf, Arabian
Sea, & Red Sea
• 3 environmental areas
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mountains (west)
•
fertile land (east)
•
desert (inner)
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See for yourself!!
•Some have
huge hills of
sand
•Some have
stone cliffs
• Empty Quarter–
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World’s largest
continuous body
of sand
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Uninhabitable
• No rain for 10 years
or more
OASIS:
• Watered by underground
springs
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Can support plants and
animal life
name for people from
Arabian Peninsula
Sabaean
Bedouins
Nabataea
BEDOUINS
(8)
•Lived and traveled
in family groups
WEAVING
WOVEN RUG
Bedouins
Name 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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see more!
Reliefs
carved on
walls
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museum
Marble basin
from Temple
Terra-cotta
bowl
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.
ISLAM
QURAN
“submit to the will
of Allah”
Prophet of Allah
Muhammad-
Holy Book
5 PILLARS
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
Mecca’s temple
Thousands of Muslims come each year
Must walk
around Kaaba
7 times and
pray
Material to cover Kaaba
MUSLIM
CALIPHATE
Caliphs
Chosen to govern land and religion of Islam
Capital of Caliphate from 700- 1200
Architecture
Art
Astronomy
Music
Medicine
Language
Knowledge
Literature
ARCHITECTURE
Avicenna
A famous Muslim doctor lived in
Persia in the early 1,000s
Avicenna wrote that:
Had mobile (moving) hospitals
Diseases spread through the air
Stress causes stomach problems
Cancer could be fought with surgery
Arabic Numbers
Much easier to use than Roman Numerals
We still use a form of these numbers today
Astronomy
Astrolabe- used to figure
out positions from the
stars
Zodiac
Stars used to determine
direction
Islamic calendar based on
moon’s movement
LANGUAGE
Click here to see some
Arabic letters
Guitar
Oud- became
known as a
lute
The House of Wisdom
One of the world’s first and largest libraries
Works of knowledge from all over the world
were translated and preserved
Math &
Science
Architecture
Art
Astronomy
Music
Medicine
Language
Knowledge
Literature
Muslim doctors invented Arabic
numbers to make it easier to calculate
doses of medicine
Math & Science
Made great strides in
the calculations of
“Algebra”
Poetry
Well loved among the
people of ancient Baghdad
Literature
Folk Tales
Scheherazade
told tales to
save her life
Ali Baba and
the 40
Thieves
Stories from
Persia
India
Arabia
Aladdin