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Session 2. Comparing the Extent of the Islamic Empires
Everything occurs in both time and space. Throughout this course, students examined a variety of cultural groups who inhabited the same place at different times. How can we get students to develop understandings about the geographic, cultural, and economic forces that spur acquisition of territory? In this lesson, students examine a series of maps showing the territorial extent of each of the three major Islamic Caliphates. This examination, showing the same territory through different time periods, provides a springboard for analyzing historical factors underlying the territorial changes. Students also explore cultural, economic, and political factors that account for the changing borders as they match explanations associated with the changes in the maps.
Key Questions
- How did the borders of the Islamic empires change through time?
- What cultural, economic, and political factors account for the changing borders?
Note: The following files contain layered pdfs. In order to manipulate the map layers, you must download each file.
Lesson
Lesson with attachments. This is a large file. You should download (right-click on link) and read in Adobe Reader.
Attachments
- Attachment F: Empire of the Rightly Guided Caliphs
- Attachment G: Empire of the Umayyad Caliphate
- Attachment H: Empire of the Abbasid Caliphate
- Attachment I: Empire of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs (black and white)
- Attachment J: Empire of the Umayyad Caliphate (black and white)
- Attachment K: Empire of the Abbasid Caliphate (black and white)
- Attachment L: Empire Comparison Chart
- Attachment M: Byzantine Empire and Empire of Rightly Guided Caliphs
- Attachment N: Abbasid Empire and Mongol Empire, 1259
- Attachment O: Which Empire? Cards
Using Layered Portable Document Files (pdfs)
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