Espirit+Chart+on+Pre-Islamic+Arabia

You must include main ideas and details in each category Civilization/Nation/Group __Arabian Life Prior to Islam.__ Time Period__  Medina’s inhabitants grew date palms, whose fruit and seeds they traded to the Bedouin (They were also fed to camels.). ||  Bedouin herders lived in kin-related clan groups in highly mobile tent encampments. Clans, in turn, were clustered in larger tribal groupings, but these were rarely congregated together and then only in times of war or severe crisis.  Though normally elected by councils of elder advisors, the shaykhs, or leaders of the tribes and clans, were almost always men with large herds, several wives, many children, and numerous retainers.  Beneath the warriors were slave families, often the remnants of rival clans defeated in war, who served the shaykhs or the clan as a whole.  If warriors from one clan found those of another clan drawing water from their wells, they were very likely to kill them.  ||  The use of watering places and grazing lands, which were essential to maintaining the herds on which Bedouin life depended, was regulated by clan councils.  The shaykhs’ dictates were enforced by bands of free warriors, whose families made up a majority of a given clan group.  ||  Bedouin religion was a blend of animism and polytheism. Some people recognized Allah as the Supreme Being and barely prayed or sacrificed to him. ||  Their populations were linked by kinship to Bedouin people.  The harsh desert and scrub environment of Arabia gave rise to forms of social organization and a lifestyle that were similar to those of the other nomadic peoples.  The struggle for subsistence in the unforgiving Arabian environment resulted in a strong dependence on and loyalty to one’s family and clan. Several depended on cooperation with and support from kin. To be cut off from them or expelled from the clan encampment was in most cases fatal. ||
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 * E  ||  The safety of the trade routes on which the towns depended was in the hands of the nomadic tribes that lived along the vulnerable caravan routes to the north and south.
 * S  ||  The town dwellers, social organization, which focused on clan and family, and their culture, including language and religion, were much like those of the nomads.
 * P  ||  Mecca had been founded by Bedouins and at the time of Muhammad was ruled by former Bedouin clans.
 * I  || * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Trade system that stretched from the Mediterranean to East Asia. The most important of these cities was Mecca, located in the mountainous region along the Red Sea.
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 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 65pt; line-height: 114%;">R <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 114%;"> ||  The urban roots of Islam have often been stressed by writers on Muslim civilization, the Bedouin world in which the religion arose shaped the career of its prophet, his teachings, and the spread of the New beliefs.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 65pt; line-height: 114%;">I <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 114%;"> ||  Key towns such as Mecca and Medina were largely extensions of the tribal culture of the camel nomads.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 65pt; line-height: 114%;">T <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 114%;"> || * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Strength and skill with bows and arrows were used in fights and those usually involved one clan versus another or championships.  ||