Name Class Date The Islamic World History and Geography Arabia, AD 570 The Arabian Peninsula is located near the intersection of Africa, Asia, and Europe. This made it well suited for trade between all three continents. By AD 570, traders were using both land and sea routes to carry goods between all three continents. ELEVATION Feet Meters 13,120 4,000 6,560 2,000 N 1,640 500 656 200 E (Sea level) 0 0 (Sea level) W Below Below sea level sea level S Land trade route Seatraderoute 0 250 500 Miles 0 250 500 Kilometers MAP ACTIVITY 1. On the map, draw an X on the city that is located between a desert in Arabia and a mountain range in Persia. 2. Use a bright color to trace a sea trade route from India to Constantinople. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. 19 The Islamic World 55621_MSH_HistGeo_Ch12.indd621_MSH_HistGeo_Ch12.indd 1919 66/16/05/16/05 111:45:361:45:36 AAMM Name Class Date The Islamic World, continued History and Geography 3. Use a second bright color to trace a land trade route from India to Constantinople. 4. Use a different bright color to trace a sea and land trade route from India to Constantinople. ANALYZING MAPS 1. Movement What is the shortest trade route between India and Constantinople: the land route, the sea route, or the land and sea route? 2. Place What city in Arabia was located on both a sea route and a land route to Europe? 3. Location What two deserts are found in Arabia? 4. Human/Environment Interaction Based on the map, what were some of the challenges traders traveling from Asia to Medina faced? 5. Compare/Contrast What two cities were on sea trade routes to Europe? How were they alike? How were they different? Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. 20 The Islamic World 5382_MSH_HistGeo_Ch12.indd 20 3/23/05 4:02:39 PM Answer Key History and Geography Economics and History MAP ACTIVITY WHAT DID YOU LEARN? 1. X should be on Ctesiphon, in You may wish to verify that students’ lists and northeastern Arabia. answers to activity questions are properly 2. Route should start in India and go to a completed. port in southern Arabia and then to Aden. 1. Trade enables people to have a greater It should then go through the Red Sea, variety of goods. Also, people along trade then the Mediterranean Sea, and end at routes make money selling goods and Constantinople. services to the traders. 3. Route should start in India, extend 2. Jobs are lost and wealth declines. upward through Asia, veer left through 3. It would make the empire less wealthy and Persia to Ctesiphon, then move to its control over faraway places less strong. Antioch, and end at Constantinople. 4. Gunpowder cannons would break the 4. Route should start in India, go through walls. A wall is no longer a useful defense. the Arabian Sea to Muscat, continue through the Persian Gulf and then Social Studies Skills go over land to Ctesiphon. From this location, land routes may vary: one goes PRACTICE THE SKILL through Antioch to Constantinople and Students’ answers may vary. Sample answer: one goes through Damascus to Antioch to At the time that Muhammad began to write Constantinople. the messages he claimed that he received from Allah, many Arabs believed in more than one ANALYZING MAPS god: they believed in spirits in natural objects 1. the land and sea route or they considered the sun and moon as 2. Antioch deities. When Muhammad preached that there 3. the Syrian Desert and the Nafud Desert was only one god, Allah, some Arabs were 4. crossing the Zagros Mountains and probably angry and resentful that their beliefs traveling through the Syrian Desert and were being challenged and replaced. the Nafud Desert 5. Alexandria and Antioch shipped goods APPLY THE SKILL directly to Europe. Both cities were on the Students’ answers will vary, but may reflect Mediterranean Sea and were on sea routes awareness of violence or threats of violence to Constantinople. Both cities were on that have occurred in school settings. trade routes that originated in Asia. They differed in that Antioch was on both a Chapter Review land route and a sea route to Europe. REVIEWING VOCABULARY, TERMS, AND PEOPLE 1. caliph 2. Muhammad 3. jihad 4. Islam 5. tolerance 6. minaret Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. 36 The Islamic World 5382_MSH_Answer Key_Ch12.indd 36 3/24/05 9:12:03 AM .