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History at key stage 3    (Year 7)

Unit 6: What were the achievements of the Islamic states 600-1600?

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Expectations

At the end of this unit

most pupils will: demonstrate knowledge of a range of the characteristic features of Islamic civilisation; develop chronological understanding and make links between Islamic civilisation and contemporary developments in western civilisation; produce structured work, using dates and technical terms accurately, when describing aspects of Islamic civilisation; suggest reasons why there can be different interpretations of major individuals such as Salah al-Din; evaluate sources of information that are useful for a study of Islamic civilisation

some pupils will not have made so much progress and will: demonstrate knowledge of some key features of Islamic civilisation; show awareness of some of the ways that Islamic civilisation changed over a thousand years; suggest similarities and differences between leading Islamic and western contemporaries; select and combine information accurately when writing accounts of aspects of Islamic civilisation; identify some differences between interpretations of a major individual such as Salah al-Din; use different sources when producing accounts of Islamic civilisation

some pupils will have progressed further and will: demonstrate knowledge of both the characteristic features and the diversity of medieval Islamic civilisation; establish a chronological framework within which to analyse relationships between features of Islamic civilisation and contemporary developments in western civilisation; deploy relevant information to produce well-structured explanations of aspects of Islamic civilisation; evaluate different interpretations of major individuals such as Salah al-Din; make critical use of a wide range of relevant information sources


Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. What is Islam?
2. How did the world of the Middle East change during the life of the Prophet Muhammad
3. A new Islamic city: how did the Abbasid caliphs organise their new capital at Baghdad?
4. How did Arab Muslims contribute to the world of mathematics and science during the Middle Ages?
5. What can we learn from the architecture of Islamic civilisations?
6. How successful were the crusader attacks on the Islamic world?
7. Why do people disagree about Salah al-Din?
8. How powerful were the rulers of the Ottoman empire?
9. What were the achievements of the Islamic states 600-1600?