Zusammenfassung der Ressource
RS- Pre-Islamic Arabia
- Social life of the arabs
- To lose tribe identity
membership was to lose
identity and protection
- Poetry was important
in the Arab culture and
also the oral tradition
- Sheikh- the leader
of the tribe
- Sheep, camel rearing
and some horse
breeding were bedouin
occupation
- Geographical location
- Mecca's wealth dependent
on the trade from passing
traders in caravans
- Sailing ships between Yemen and India
- Mecca in the centre of
two trading points
Yemen and Syria
- It was known as a place of pilgrimage and traders would
visit in on the way and buy and sell goods and put their
tribe's idol in the Kaba which was thought to bring them
prosperity
- Political situation
- Roman empire had become the
byzantine empire in east
- 3 major empires,
Sassanian, Byzantine
and Abyssinian
- Sassanian empire ruled from
China to Iraq and North India
to the Caspian Sea
- Sassanian and Byzantine
Empire at war 614-628AD