Lesson 3 A Muslim Caliphate

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Lesson 3A Muslim Caliphate

• The Tigris River is where the Muslims located
  Baghdad
• Iraq is the modern day country
• Caliph is a successor to Muhammad, chosen to rule
  lands under Muslim control
• Caliphate is the lands that a caliph rules

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The Caliphate (Map Work)

• The Muslim caliphate spread to Egypt and the
  coastal areas of North Africa to the Atlantic
  Ocean
• Spain is the part of Europe that the caliphate
  controlled
• In Asia the caliphate were eastern Mediterranean,
  Arabia, Persia, and part of India

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Baghdad

• The capital of caliphate was the city of Baghdad
• Baghdad grew to about one million people
• The imperial city of Rome and Baghdad and the
  striking similarities are the population,
  crowding, magnificent buildings, destination of
  roads, trade goods available and the status as
  world cities

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Achievements of the Caliphate

• Ibn, Sina, Avicenna were renowned Muslim doctors
• Avicena and the other Arab doctors built their
  medical knowledge on Greek medical texts
• Arab scholars borrowed from Hindu scholars by
  adopting to the Hindu numbering system and
  learned and then expanded on Hindu algebra
• Astonomy is a study of stars and planets
• Muslims were interested in this b/c they based
  their calendar on the moon, and the stars helped
  them find the direction of Mecca from wherever on
  earth they were.

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Places of Worship

• Each mosque has a tall tower b/c it is a place
  from which Muslims can be called to prayer five
  times a day
• The dome was the architectural structure that
  Muslims borrowed from Roman engineering

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Literature and Music

• Islamic civilization borrowed from other
  civilizations in developing its literature b/c it
  incorporated Arabian tales, it took stories from
  Persia and India
• The lute and guitar came from the Arab culture

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Infographic

• The major design element in the walls of the
  palace are arches
• They are distinct b/c of they come to a sort of
  point at the top
• Caliphate had access to goods from all over the
  world b/c oud probably originated in Arabia and
  the silk the women wore came from China