Read pages 266-272, complete (1-5) on page 272           Muslim Scientists and Scholars
Islam during the Abbasid
Islamic Sourcebook

1. Identify: Dome of the Rock, Omar Khayyam, The Thousand and One Nights, Averroes, Muhammad al Razi, Avicenna

2. (a) Why did trade flourish across the Muslim world?  (b) How did new business methods encourage trade?

3. How did the teachings of Islam influence the arts?

4. Describe one advance made by Muslim civilization in each of the following areas: mathematics, astronomy, medicine

5. Critical Thinking: Muhammad taught that "the ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr."  (a) What do you think he meant? 

1. Identify: Pan-Africanist, African National Congress, Mau Mau.

2. What effect did the Second World War have on the African struggle on independence?

3. What choice did France initially give its African colonies? What did the colonies decide?

4. Why was the Belgian Congo unprepared for independence?

5. What were the main events in Kenya's struggle for independence?

6. Critical Thinking Why did the newly independent government of the Congo replace Western names with African ones?