The Islamic World: Trade, Law, and Learning Across Three Continents: Social Studies Unit 2, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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The Islamic World: Trade, Law, and Learning Across Three Continents is Unit 2 of World Geography and the Medieval World, 500-1500 CE (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 65 pages.

• Arabian Peninsula physical geography and its relationship to early Islamic trade and settlement patterns
• The Five Pillars of Islam as a historical/social unifying framework
• Caliphates as political successor states borrowing and modifying Byzantine and Persian administrative institutions
• Structural similarities and differences between Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade networks
• Syncretism as demonstrated by Islamic law blending with local legal and social custom in a specific conquered region
• Syncretism as a general pattern of cultural and legal blending, transferred beyond the taught Islamic-law case
• The House of Wisdom as an institutional mechanism for knowledge preservation and cross-cultural transmission
• Competing secondary-source explanations for rapid early caliphate expansion
• The geographic path and content of goods, ideas, and technology moving along Silk Road and Indian Ocean networks
• Terms-of-trade reasoning generalized to an untaught trade network

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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