Regional Outline for



Regional Outline for Middle East

| |8000 – 600 CE |600 – 1450 CE |1450-1750 CE |1750 – 1914 CE |1914 - Present |

|Politics |-city-state |Caliphs |Sultan |-Ottoman decline |-Turkish state |

| |- controlled city and surrounding |-political unrest |-Provincial gov’t |-centralized, but |-Sultan kicked out |

| |area |-succession |-centralized power |-not around economy |Ataturk- father of the Turks |

| | |-problem | | | |

| | |Islam-Theocratic Rulers- codified | | | |

| | |Islamic law | | | |

|Economy |Trade |Participated in trade |-Initially dominated trade |-Trade still go on |WWI- join central power (lost) |

| |-great traders |-Trans Sahara Trade |(beginning) |-no longer dominant traders/master |-“Attempted” Industrialization |

| |-agricultural |-Silk Road/Route |-Indian Ocean, African Coast |traders |-Iran, Iraq- Oil supply (econ based) |

| | |-Indian Ocean Trade | | | |

|Social Class/Gender |-Men work (more freedom) |Education- more opportunities |Harems established |Women |Women |

| |-Women confined to home |Women- married at puberty |-female slaves, women had some rights|-stayed same, had some property |-Even with pressure from West. Stayed|

| |-Slavery (owned slaves) |- equal before Allah |Social Class: 1)Sultan 2)Gov’t |rights |same |

| |-from E.Africa | |Officials 3)Reg Officials 4)General |-not really property of men |-negative effect, treatments |

| | | |people (peasants, Merchants..) |-hardly any rights |-still had to wear the clothes to |

| | | | |-devalued |cover the whole body |

|Science/Inventions |-Independent innovations |Mathematics |Military Tech |-Affected by western science |-Fall of USSR |

| |-4000BCE Bronze, Copper |-Algebra, Geometry…etc |-canons, guns |-overtaken (no longer dominant |-start accepting west influence |

| |-Wheel, irrigation canals |Science -Objective experiment |-advanced medically |-stayed isolated | |

| |-number system (from India, improved)|-classification |-Medicines | | |

| |-Navigation tools |-navigation: astrolabe improved |-Science- navigation tools, | | |

| | |-Medicine |atstronomy | | |

|Art/Architecture |Architecture |-Calligraphy, designs |-Mosques |Arts |Arts |

| |-Ziggurats |-Minarets |-Minarets |-still had Mosques |-still have, but not much |

| |-glory of civilization |-Mosques |-Mosaics |-Minarets |developments |

| | |-Literature | |-Mosaics |improvements |

| | |-Poetic works: Arabian Nights” | |-styles still there, but | |

| | | | |-due to decline of empire, | |

| | | | |corruption, little time for art | |

|Empire |Regional Kingdom |-Islamic |Ottoman Empire |“Sick man of Europe” |Young Turks |

| |-Babylonians |-regular civil wars |-“Gunpowder Empire” |-decline of Ottoman Empire |-Secularization, sceiences technology|

| |-Acadians…etc |-1258 Mongols overran Islamic empire |-Safavid Persia |-Balkans |-Iran vs Iraq |

| | | | |-seeking independence |-Turkey formed |

|Religion |-Polytheistic |Islam |Islam |Islam |Islam |

| |-Animistic |-Suffi’s |-divided |-still the unifying force |-more focused on religion |

| |-Many gods |-respect for Jews/Christians |-Sunni vs. Shi’a |-tensions between Sunni vs. Shi’a |-tried to become like before |

| | |-People of the book | |still occur | |

| | | | |-still tolerant of other religions to| |

| | | | |some extent | |

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