Subject: history
Key stage: ks3
Year: year-7
Description: In this unit, pupils develop their knowledge and understanding of the Islamic world in the 11th century. Pupils study three connected, but contrasting, centres of Islamic civilisation: Baghdad, Cordoba and Sicily.
Why this, why now: This unit uses and builds on pupils' year 5 knowledge of early Islamic civilisation. It deepens their understanding of Baghdad and how the politics of the Islamic world had changed since the 8th and 9th centuries. This unit prepares pupils for the future year 7 unit on the First Crusade, ensuring pupils can place that event within the context of changing Muslim rule.
Prior knowledge requirements: Pupils know about the rise of Islam. Pupils know about the growth of the Islamic Empire in the 7th and 8th centuries. Pupils know about conflict between Islamic and Christian powers in the early medieval period.
National curriculum content: Extend and deepen their chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, so that it provides a well-informed context for wider learning Identify significant events, make connections, draw contrasts, and analyse trends within periods and over long arcs of time Use historical terms and concepts in increasingly sophisticated ways Understand historical concepts such as similarity, difference The study of an aspect or theme in British history that consolidates and extends pupils’ chronological knowledge from before 1066
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