Chapter 5 Lesson 1

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Chapter 5 Lesson 1

• State Standard 7.3 7.5 7.6
• EQ- How do religions develop?

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Answer questions in complete sentences

• 1. What is the homeland of the Arab people?
• 2. What civilizations surrounded the Arab
  Peninsula?
• 3. How did geography influence the Arab way of
  life?

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More questions to ponder

• 1. How did the harsh desert climate affect the
  early Arabs who lived there?
• 2. Who were the bedouin?
• 3. What made Mecca an important religious center?
• 4. How did the lives of desert Arabs and town
  Arabs differ?

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Questions cont

• 1. What troubled Muhammad about things he saw in
  Mecca?
• 2. What similarities does Islam have with
  Christianity and Judaism?
• 3. Why did some people not like Muhammad?