Rise of Islam
Background
Mission Summary: Ascendancy
Essential Question
Visual Summary
How did the Empire of Islam grow out of the deserts of Arabia?
Can something come from nothing? Our records show that a gigantic empire arose in the Middle Ages out of the middle of a desert. Reviewing the data makes this seem impossible. I can’t even figure out how people could live in this desert let alone rise out of it to create a powerful empire. Fractures at work or was this somehow actually possible?
Ascendancy 1: �Rise of Islam
Geography
Arabia is mostly desert. Temperatures reach 130 degrees and water is a struggle to find.
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What would you do?
What would you do to solve the problems of heat and lack of water?
Scarce resources led them to become nomads – people who moved often.
They would often camp at an oasis. Later these places became the first towns in the area.
Society
The nomads carried idols of their gods. Eventually they were kept in a shrine in Mecca.
Kaaba – a large cube containing the idols which helped make Mecca a gathering place.
Just one God. Don’t like it? Too bad!
Muhammad started a new faith called Islam saying there is only one God.
Islam
Islam - the name of the monotheistic faith started by Muhammad.
Qu’ran - the book with the words of the angel from Allah (god.)
Sunnah – book about Muhammad with the Five Pillars.
Sunnah – book about Muhammad with the Five Pillars.
Sunnah – book about Muhammad with the Five Pillars.
Sunnah – book about Muhammad with the Five Pillars.
Sunnah – book about Muhammad with the Five Pillars.
Sunnah – book about Muhammad with the Five Pillars.
Monotheism – belief in only one god.
Judaism, Christianity and Islam all originate from Abraham but differ greatly on their view of Jesus.
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Christianity
Islam