1. Chapter 10.3 Muslim Civilization’s Golden Age

2. Chapter 10.3 Today’s objective…to learn about…
The large Muslim empire trades around the world and influences Europeans w/ trading practices like credit and banks.
Muslim culture makes great advances in literature, science, math, architecture, art, and medicine.

3. This is important b/c….
Ever heard of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves? Aladdin and His Magic Lamp?
Muslim traders influenced European trading practices and the arts, lit., architecture, science, math, and medicine.

4. Chapter 10 vocab
Kaaba 1 Quran 1 mosque 1 Hajj 1 jihad 1 Sharia 1 caliph 2 Minarets 2 Calligraphy 3 Taj Mahal 4

5. Focus Q
Make a Venn diagram comparing/contrasting Sunni and Shiite Muslims
See pages

6. Focus Q: Dec. 1
Review Sheet: 1-4, 9-14

7. Focus Q: Michigan State Friday
Quiz a partner on the map locations.
Practice quiz in 5 minutes or less.

8. Economics
Partnerships, credit, banks to change currency, checks (kind of)
Banks in every major city
Guilds regulated prices
Arts
Restrict religious art images
Illustrated medical texts
Domes, minarets, calligraphy
Literature
Best known: Nights
Sciences
Pioneer algebra
Hospitals similar to today’s emergency rooms
Medical encyclopedia

9. Muslim Rulers Rule Over Diverse Cultures
Christian, Jewish, Arab, Persian, Egyptian, African, European, Mongol, Turks, Indians and Southeast Asians join the Muslim community
Muslims absorb and blend many of their traditions….aahhh…the benefits of cultural diffusion.
How would this help your society?

10. Abbasid Empire
Remind you of
anything?

11. Muslims Build an International Trade Network
Muslims honor merchants
Partly b/c Mohammad was a merchant
merchants build trading networks
Muslim manufactured goods were highly valued
handicraft manufacturing was organized by guilds: Swords, carpets, tapestries, furniture, etc.

12. Timbuktu

13. 2 important
commodities

14. Muslims Build an International Trade Network
Camel Caravans—”ships of the desert” —cross Sahara Desert into West Africa
Silk Road to China—Christians, Jews, Muslims use this link btwn East Asia and Europe
Arab ships trade in East Africa, India, southeast Asia
international trade inc. b/c of Muslim advances in transportation

15. Silk Roads
to China

16. Largest desert in the world?
Antarctica
Sahara

18. Challenges/dangers of crossing
the desert?

19. 6—7.5 feet tall
lbs.
Live years
Dromedary Camel
1 hump
North Africa, Middle East

20. Check out the feet Bactrian Camel 2 humps Central Asia Humps are fat
6-7.5 feet tall
lbs.
Check out the feet

21. Just jokin’……..
I ate 4 bowls of delicious alphabet soup. After that I had a massive vowel movement.
Two Elephants meet a totally naked guy. After a while one elephant says to the other: “I really don’t get how he can feed himself with that thing!”

22. Muslims Build an International Trade Network
Trade spreads technology, knowledge, goods, culture
Muslim merchants introduce Indian numbers to Europeans, become known as Arabic numerals

23. Muslims Build an International Trade Network
Muslims pioneer new business practices
***Credit
Bank checks***
Banks to change currency
Branch banks in all major cities

24. Muslim Art and Literature
Quran strictly bans the worship of idols
***So religious leaders forbade artists to portray God or human figures in religious art***
So pictures of Mohammad are a no-no

25. Calligraphy: art of beautiful handwriting
Remember, no God or
human figures

26. A fish?

27. Muslim Art and Literature
Arab writers loved the art of storytelling
They used stories from Arab, Persian, Greek, Jewish, Egyptian and Turkish sources
***Best known story: The 1001 Nights***
Aladdin and his Magic Lamp
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Sinbad

29. Muslims Seek Knowledge
Boys/girls get elementary education—need it to study the Quran
Baghdad greatest Muslim center of learning—Cairo, Cordoba, Timbuktu (Mali) too
Ibn Khaldun—warned about bias, exaggeration, and overconfidence in historical writing
Astronomical tables

31. ***Avicenna—wrote a huge medical encyclopedia***---Canon on Medicine
Math and Medicine
Al-Khwarizmi—pioneers algebra
Doctors, pharmacists had to pass a test b/f they could practice
Early study of measles, smallpox
Treat the mind as well as the body
***Avicenna—wrote a huge medical encyclopedia***---Canon on Medicine

32. wh

33. Origin of Arabic Numerals

34. 5 Wonders of Islamic Architecture
Great Mosque of Djenne, Mali
Made of sandstone, 1907

35. Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey
Domes and minarets

36. Mezquita-Catedral, Cordoba, Spain, 600-987

37. Dome of the Rock
Jerusalem
Where’s the
minaret?

38. Hagia Sophia

39. Economics
Partnerships, credit, banks to change currency, checks (kind of)
Banks in every major city
Guilds regulated prices
Arts
Restrict religious art images
Illustrated medical texts
Domes, minarets, calligraphy
Literature
Best known: Nights
Sciences
Pioneer algebra
Hospitals similar to today’s emergency rooms
Medical encyclopedia

40. Review
3 things you learned/reviewed today
“I wonder…..”