1. Unit 3-2

2. Monday, September 12, 2011
Essential Question: What conflicts emerged between the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world?
Standard: SSWH4 The students will analyze the importance of the Byzantine and Mongol empires between 450 CE and 1500 CE.
e. Explain the Ottoman Empire’s role in the decline of the Byzantium and the capture of Constantinople in 1453.

3. Monday, September 12, 2011: Bell work
Where was Kiev located? What was the significance of it’s location?

4. Monday, September 12, 2011: Agenda
Bell work
Discuss the Byzantine Empire
Notes: The Decline of the Byzantine Empire
Complete Vocabulary
Work on writing assignment. (Due tomorrow)
Review Questions: The Byzantine Empire

5. The Decline of the Byzantine Empire

6. Ottoman Empire
Ottomans were a Turkish-speaking nomadic people who had migrated from Central Asia into northwestern Asia Minor
1300s expanded into southeastern Europe
1453 Muhammad II captured Constantinople
Constantinople becomes Istanbul
For the next 200 years, the Ottoman empire continued to expand.
The Ottoman Empire was a Muslim state

8. Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Essential Question: What were the origins of Islam and how did the Islamic Empire grow?
Standard: SSWH5 The student will trace the origins and expansion of the Islamic World between 600 CE and 1300CE
Explain the origins of Islam and the growth of the Islamic Empire.

9. Tuesday, September 14, 2011: Bell work
What city of the Byzantine Empire fell to the Turks?

10. Tuesday, September 13, 2011: Agenda
Bell work
Share journal entries from Byzantium.
Teacher discussion of Islam
Guided Reading: Islam
Closing: Discuss the EQ

11. Wednesday, September