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World Civilizations: The Global Experience ©2001
by Stearns, Adas, Schwartz, and Gilbert
Focus Lesson 4
Chapter 12: "The First Global Civilizations: The Rise and Spread of Islam"
Chapter13: "Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia"
Chapter 14: "African Civilization and the Spread of Islam"
AP* Course Description
Foundations
- Basic features of world geography and definitions
- Location of key political units prior to 1000 (Abbasid caliphate)
- Key cultural, social, and economic systems
- Islam
- Principal international connections that had developed between 700 and 1000
- Missionary outreach (Muslim)
1000–1450
- Islamic world
- The role of Islam as a unifying cultural force in Eurasia and Africa; Islamic impact on the Sudanic kingdoms and East Africa; the Delhi Sultanate
- The impact of migrations and religious reform movements in expanding Islamic society
- The impact of Islam on the arts and sciences
Key Components
- Instructor's Manual:
Chapter 12, pp. 84–91
Chapter 13, pp. 92–99
Chapter 14, pp. 100–106 - Study Guide, Vol. I:
Chapter 12, pp. 115–125
Chapter 13, pp. 126–136
Chapter 14, pp. 137–146 - Test Bank:
Chapter 12, pp. 147–160
Chapter 13, pp. 161–174
Chapter 14, pp. 175–188
Key Web Sites Listed in the Student Text
Given the changing nature of the Internet, you may wish to preview these sites.
- Chapter 12: p. 303
- Chapter 13: p. 329
- Chapter 14: p. 351
Key Words and Terms
Chapter 12
- Islam
- Quraysh
- hijra
- Abu Bakr
- Sunnis
- Abbasid
- Muslims
- Umayyad
- umma
- Ridda Wars
- Shi'as
- Abu al-Abbas
- bedouin
- Ka'ba
- zakat
- jihad
- Karbala
- Bagdad
- shaykhs
- Allah
- five pillars
- Uthman
- Damascus
- wazir
- Mecca
- Muhammad
- hajj
- battle of Siffin
- mawali
- ayan
- Medina
- Quran
- Ali
- Mu'awiya
- dhimmis
Chapter 13
- al-Mahdi
- Shah-Nama
- Demak
- Quth-ud-din-Aibak
- al-Rashid
- Sufis
- Hajjaj
- bhaktic cults
- Buyids
- ulama
- Muhammad ibn Qasim
- Kabir
- Seljuk Turks
- al-Ghazali
- Ghazni
- Shrivijaya
- Crusades
- Mongols
- Mahmud of Ghazni
- Malacca
- Saladin
- Chinggis Khan
- Muhammad of Ghur
- Vishnu
Chapter 14
- stateless societies
- the Sahel
- Timbuktu
- Ibn Batuta
- Kingdom of Kongo
- Almohadis
- Sundiata
- Sharia
- Yoruba
- Maghrib
- Mali
- Askia Muhammad
- demographic transition
- Almoravids
- Juula
- Hausa states
- Nok
- Ifriqiya
- Sudanic states
- Songhay
- demography
- Great Zimbabwe
- Ethiopia
- griots
- Zanj
- Benin
Suggested Pacing
Allow two weeks to teach these three chapters.
Test Strategy
In asking questions during class discussions, occasionally ask for the "most significant," "the least likely," "the most important," and "the best example" in order to give students practice in thinking in terms of qualifiers for questions and answers. While many questions on the AP* test will require a factually accurate answer (something either is or is not correct), some questions will require that students evaluate an answer on the basis of a qualifier such as most or least.
Key Concepts
- Islam as an agent of change
The study of Chapters 12, 13, and 14 should give students an understanding of Islamic civilization as the first global civilization. They should be able to evaluate the importance of Islam in Asia and in Africa and be able to trace trade and migration routes of Islamic culture. - Diversity within Islam
Although Islam was a unifying force, there was much diversity within the Islamic empires. Students should be aware of the ethnic differences, political rivalries, and sectarian divisions within Islamic civilization.
Summing Up Student Understanding
Have students complete the maps on pp. 122, 133, and 143 of the Study Guide, Vol. I, or similar outline maps that show the Arabian Peninsula, the African continent and western Asia, and Africa. They should label rivers, cities, and mountain ranges; draw in trade routes; and draw in the boundaries of major cultures. Some cultures may overlap in areas.
Have students use their maps as well as their reading to write three generalizations about Islam. Generalizations may describe the impact of trade, the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms, the clash of cultures, and so on.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
You might also find these additional readings useful to develop students' background knowledge or for DBQ activities:
- Sources of the West, Vol. I, edited by Kishlausky—Part II
- The Global Experience, Vol. I, edited by Schwartz, Wimmer, and Wolfe—Chapters 9 and 10
- Documents in World History, Vol I, edited by Stearns, Gosch, and Grieshaber—Section Three