The+Rise+and+Spread+of+Islam

1. Summary page 120-125

After the declines of classical civilizations and the government and society shattered, the remaining piece that was still together was religion; Christianity, Buddhism and the Islamic religion. The religious leaders believed that merchants would be corrupt with the amount of wealth that accumulated through trade with other regions. But truly merchants spread religion to other regions to have them follow the same beliefs and get them to convert to that religion. Mostly ideals were spread through the silk road, eventually expanding to greater distances and trading with West Africa, Japan and Egypt. And as things started to progress further changes happened and how different religion groups influenced those changes. With the religion still around technology was still be invented that could help the society fix it self and recover from the decline. It also affected continuity by it being bent into beliefs used by missionaries. And Buddhism got woman to become more respected with in the society rather them, getting punished and having to obey their husbands, without self rights being thought about or said. So it affect women daily lives by them being equal to men and instead of being thought as "Heart-less" religion showed that woman had souls and had an essence of divisiveness. All started to show the importance of woman within the societies; giving them bigger roles within religion, more rights and letting them be part of a leadership role. But thoughts about woman being important was less favorable to some because they wanted to keep control over their woman.

2. Espirit Chart (in binder)

3. 5 pillars mark up

4. Documentary notes

5. Questions

1. The death of Muhammad lead to the expansion of Islam by that the Muslim people needed a leader that could succeed Muhammad. They were chosen by campaigns to those left Islam and were going them to chance to come back into the faith and region. It also started expeditions which might have caused more societies beyond the peninsula they were contained in to other places to start the belief in God.

2. The motivations for Islamic conquest was the unity of the faiths that gave them a common goal and gave them strength. Fought because the community thought it was a good way to release energy that was kept inside of ones body. Promised to share each others treasures won by raids against farms and try to tribute to other Islamic societies into converting into being ruled by the Arabians.

3. The Umayyads were able to defeat their adversaries by the empires that ruled over them started to weaken and the Umayyads were table to fight against the rule and be able to rule over themselves rather then being ruled by an adversary.

4. The Major division in Islam was caused by that the Islamic people started to go through a problem of succession and fighting amongst another over differences with another on how things should be divided with the booty collected from raids.

5.The extent of the Islamic Empire under the Umayyads was that the empire ruled to Spain and to central Asia. And it ruled Mecca to being the center of community to __Damascus__ until the death of Utham. The umayyads also built a bureaucracy that would bind them together rather than apart and would be able to contain rule that had other regions.

6. The people of the book under the Umayyads were treated by that the Dhimmi's had to pay the jizya and commercial and property taxes. Leaving their communities and legal systems were left alone and were allowed to worship as they wanted to. But the Umayyads used the people of the book to spread Islam to other societies and get them to abandon their religions and convert to theirs.

7. The gender structure under the Umayyads was that woman were given different position in both the family and the society itself. Men could have up to four wives but if he could not support a certain amount then he would probaly had to divorse them and keep only one wife. The rule was that the woman had to be treated equally and not one different then the rest.Woman could not leader a prayer but could hold a political position within the community.

8.The factors that lead to the decline of the Umayyads were that they started to ignore the Muslim faithfulness and became more less caring about the Muslims. They back out of war and went into their little peace world. And when treasure was raided, warriors who helped get the booty in the first place were not given their fair share. And when the Umayyads were trying to get more troops to stop a revolt which led to the __battle of the river Zab__. Which made the umayadd empire decline when the rest fled to Spain to avoid the fall.