AP World HistoryStudy Guide – Islamic Civilization

Chapter 9

AP World HistoryPost-Classical World, 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E.

Islamic CivilizationStudy Guide

The Kaaba of Mecca

Chapter 9

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AP World HistoryStudy Guide – Islamic Civilization

Chapter 9Study Guide Directions

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AP World HistoryStudy Guide – Islamic Civilization

Chapter 9Map Work

Label the following: Mecca Medina Damascus Baghdad (NOTE: Baghdad

located near the old Persian city “Ctesiphon”)

Cordoba Rome Alexandria Constantinople Jerusalem

Starting with Mecca, draw an arrow to each of the succeeding capitals of Islam. (They are listed in order above.)

1. In what direction was the “center” of Islam moving?

2. How was this related to the areas of civilization?

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Chapter 9

Draw the boundaries of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhay Empires and label each accordingly

Label the Niger River Label the Nile River (the Blue Nile flows into the White Nile to create the Nile

River) Label the city along the Niger that was within the borders of all 3 empires Label the Swahili city-state of Mogadishu

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AP World HistoryStudy Guide – Islamic Civilization

Chapter 9Reading Questions

Spread of Islam(Pages 363 – 375)

1. In what ways did the civilization of Islam draw on other civilizations in the Afro-Eurasian world? And in what respects did it shape or transform those civiliza-tions? Page 364

2. In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect its Arabian origins? Page 366

3. What did the Quran expect from those who followed its teachings? Page 367

4. Why were Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly? Page 372

5. What accounts for the widespread conversion to Islam? Page 374

6. What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam? Page 375

7. In what ways were Sufi Muslims critical of mainstream Islam? Page 375

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AP World HistoryStudy Guide – Islamic Civilization

Chapter 9World of Islam

(Pages 375 – 397)

8. How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women? Page 380

9. What similarities and differences can you identify in the spread of Islam to India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain? Page 384

10. In what ways was Anatolia changed by its incorporation into the Islamic world? Page 385

11. What makes it possible to speak of the Islamic world as a distinct and coherent civilization? Page 392

12. In what ways was the world of Islam a “cosmopolitan civilization”? Page 393

13. How might you account for the immense religious and political/military success of Islam in its early centuries? Page 397

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AP World HistoryStudy Guide – Islamic Civilization

Chapter 9Unit Review

1. In what ways might Islamic civilization be described as cosmopolitan, international, or global?

2. “Islam was simultaneously both a single world of shared meaning and interaction and a series of separate, distinct, and conflicting communities.” What evidence could you provide to support both sides of this argument?

3. What changes did Islamic expansion generate in those societies that encountered it, and how was Islam itself transformed by those encounters?

4. What distinguished the early centuries of Islamic history from a similar phase in the history of Christianity and Buddhism?

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AP World HistoryStudy Guide – Islamic Civilization

Chapter 9Identify

Who? What? Where? When?

1. Quran

2. Umma

3. Caliph

4. Sunni Islam

5. Shi’a Islam

6. Sufism

7. Sikhism

8. Madrassas

9. Sharia

10. Jizya

11. Ulama

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