1. Accelerated World History October 22, 2015

2. Warm Up – October 22, 2015 Bantu is a language native to Africa. What does the word “Bantu” mean? A. Speaking B. The people C. Change D. Freedom

3. Agenda Intro to Islam Reminders: Chapter 8 due Monday

4. Essential Question What makes someone popular?

5. What is Islam and Who are Muslims?

6. Overview of Islam Today, Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion with more than 1 billion followers throughout the world

8. What was Arabia like before Muhammad ?

9. Islam Islam is a monotheistic religion that began in city of Mecca located on the Arabian Peninsula near the Byzantine Empire Arabians were polytheistic & came to visit Mecca to pray to the Kabba, a shrine containing idols of 360 different gods (including Allah)

10. Islam Mohammad was born in Mecca & was interested in monotheism of Jews & Christians who traded in Mecca At age 40, Mohammad had a vision that told him he was a messenger of Allah (Arabic word for “god”; the same god as Christians & Jews) Muhammad called his religion Islam (“surrender to God”) & destroyed the other idols in the Kabba

11. Islam Mohammad identified rules all Muslims should live by, called the Five Pillars of Islam: Faith—believe in 1 god, Allah Prayer—five times every day Alms—give money to the needy Fasting—eat no food from sunrise to sunset for 1 month (Ramadan) Pilgrimage—one in life, go to Mecca

12. Islam Islam became a very popular religion in Mecca and Medina.

13. Expansion of Islam Muslims began to expand; idea of jihad taught that Muslims would go straight to heaven if died fighting for Allah; so they fought very hard to expand. Holy wars were considered okay in God's eyes.

14. Islam expanded into a huge empire including Spain, Northern Africa, Persia, and Arabia.

15. Expansion of Islam Expanded Arabic language and cultural innovations. Islamic rulers proved mostly tolerant, they offered new subjects three choices: convert to Islam pay a tax die

16. Islam Like Christianity, Islam split into 2 sects; after Muhammad died, caliphs (followers of Muhammad) lead Islamic faith, but confusion over the “correct” leadership (caliph): Sunni—caliphs should be chosen by vote (95% Muslims are Sunni today) Shiite—caliphs should come directly from Muhammad’s family tree (more radical; 3% of all Muslims today)

17. BYZANTINES MUSLIMS

18. Ottoman Turks Turks are nomads from Asia; contact with Muslim Empire led to conversion of Turks to Islam Ottoman Turks—Most powerful group of Turks began to grow strong as Byzantine Empire and Islamic Empire began to weaken Defeated both Islamic Empire & Byzantine Empire; created Ottoman Empire

19. Seige of Constantinople (1453 A.D.)

21. The Ottoman Empire