5.2 The Arab Empire Expands

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5.2 The Arab Empire Expands

Learning goal:

At the end of this class you can explain how Islam was established and how the Arabic empire expanded in the Early Middle Ages

5.2 The Arab Empire Expands

1. Get your textbook: p. 104 - 106

2. Look at the next slide

3. Read the page in your textbook that corresponds with the slide. You can find the right page in the bottomleft.

3. Check the slide again. Do you understand everything?

4. Write down any questions that you have.

Read
p. 104

Read p. 104

Read p. 104 + 105

Read
p. 105 + 106

Islamic name for God

Holy book of the Muslims

Messenger of God

Religion started by Muhammed

Prophet

Quran

Allah

Islam

6. Put the events in chronical order.

1

2

3

4

5

 Muhammad receives revelations from God

 Muhammad removes all statues from the Ka’aba

 Muhammad flees from Mecca to Medina.

 The Arabs believe in several gods at the same time.

 Muhammad starts preaching that there is only one God.

8. Complete the graphic overview.

Jesus

God

church

Allah

Muhammad

Quran

Bible, New Testament

Put the words with the correct religion

Christendom

Islam

Both

Mosque

Bible

Monotheism

Mecca

Medina

Church

Write down 3 things that you have learned this lesson

Ask one question of something that is not clear to you yet..

Word Duty

Bedouins -  nomadic tribes that lived in Arabia

Muhammed - the prohet and, according to Muslims, messenger of God, who laid the foundations for the Islamic religion.

Revalations - visions or other forms of communication recieved from a god.

Quran - the book that contains all the revelations Muhammed recieved from God.

Prohet - Messenger from God.

Islam - monotheistic religion started by Muhammed in the seventh century

Muslims - the followers of Muhammed, who believed in one God only;  Allah

Hijarah - the journey of Muhammed and his followers from Mecca to Medina.

Ummah - community of Muslims

Jihad - Islamic struggle for God

Caliph - political and religious leader of the Ummah

KEY WORDS

Homework

Read 5.2

Do 1,2a,3a and 7 (without a partner ;-) )

Good luck!