Post 5: Islam

Respond to one of the quotes from Muhammad below. Be sure to indicate in your response which quote you are responding to. Please write a minimum of 3 sentences to answer the prompt.

• 1. Muhammad said, “Know ye that every Muslim is a brother to every other Muslim & that ye are now one brotherhood.” How might this idea have increased the appeal of Islam to conquered people?

• 2. Muhammad taught that “the ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.” What do you think he meant? How might this attitude have contributed to the development of Muslim civilization?

Post 4: Your opinion

Out of the civilizations we have studied in Unit Three (Greeks, Romans, Mayans, Aztecs, & the Incans) which society would you have rather lived in and why? What would you have enjoyed about that society? What position would you have wanted to have in that society? Please write a full paragraph to answer.

Post 3: Are we Rome?

From Ways of the World (2009), “The US enormous multicultural society, its technological achievements, its economically draining & overstretched armed forces, its sense of itself as unique & endowed with a global mission, its concern about foreigners penetrating its borders, its apparent determination to maintain military superiority - all of this invited comparison with the Roman Empire. Supporters of a dominant role for the US argue that Americans must face up to their responsibilities as the ‘undisputed master of the world’ as the Romans did in their time. Critics warn that the Roman Empire became overextended abroad & corrupt & dictatorial at home & then collapsed, suggesting that a similar fate may await the American empire.”

What do you think? Is the US Rome? Do we have an empire? If we have an empire is it collapsing? Explain your answer. Write a full paragraph to answer the prompt.