Islam
- Geography
- Limited agriculture
- Hot dry deserts
- Peoples of the desert
- Arib nomads , called beduins, were organized into clans
- Created because they provided security and support for a life made difficult by the extreme conditinns in the desert
- Bedouin ideals, courage loyalty to family and warrior skills
- By 600 ad, many aribs setteled down, and chose oasis’s because desert life was too harsh
- Larger towns near the western coast of Arabia beame market towns for local ,regional and long distance trading goods
- Special city
- Mecca
- Holy city that they pray towards
- Also common for them to visit mecca
- Trading
- After they moved into the larger cities, trading increased
- Many routs because of the bodies of water that sorrunded the aerea
- Traded
- Spices
- Incense
- Perfume
- Precious metals
- Ivory
- Silk
- Monotheistic
- Good called allah
- Muhaad
- Was their prophit
- Raised by grandfather and uncle
- Recived little schooling
- Age of 40, muhamad became very interested in religion
- Islam means submission to the will of allah
- Muslim means one who has submitted
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