Islam's Rise and Spread pt. 2

In Class:
Key questions:

1. How did Islam spread--by force, persuasion, or both? How did it treat non-Muslims? (Gather evidence in bullet points from Wikipedia--I approve it because I've reviewed it for accuracy--and keep them for the final tests):

1 Conversion

• 1.1 Phase I: The Early Caliphs and Umayyads (610-750 AD)
• 1.2 Phase II: The Abbasids (750-1258)
• 1.3 Phase III: Dissolution of the Abbasids and the emergence of the Seljuks and Ottomans (950-1450)

2. What contributions did the Abbasid Caliphate (750-12500; capital in Baghdad) make to civilization in terms of science, art, technology, government, economics? (Chart it from the movie The Awakening, first 20 minutes, and see Textbook, p. 273-79)

3. Why did the Abbasid Caliphate collapse? (see WHPOI Textbook, p. 271--the Islam chapter as a separate file is here)


Homework: European Christendom--The Medieval Period (a.k.a. "Dark Ages")
Read the Medieval Europe section from the textbook and outline, following this format, pages 353-54, and read the rest below:
1. Charlemagne Unites the Germanic Kingdoms (pp. 353-57)
2. Feudalism in Europe (pp. 358-63)

--Be able to answer these questions (you don't have to write them, but you might be quizzed or "seminared" on them--they're not hard if you do the readings):
1. Why did Western Europe become such a mess after the fall of the Western Roman Empire? (Remember, the Eastern Empire in Byzantium (Turkey) was still around. Only Western Europe became "Dark".)
2. What was the basic relationship between Charlemagne and the Roman Catholic Church?
3. Why did Charlemagne's empire fall?
4. What is feudalism as a political system?
5. What is the manorial economic system?
6. Which civilization would you rather have lived in--Medieval Europe or Abbasid Islam?