Middle East & North Africa

Eva Hernandez B1

Museum Layout

-Exhibits in chronological order-Sandy rigid wallpaper-Warm Air

Beginnings - 600 BCE Rosetta Stone

-Found in Egypt-Made in 196 BCE-Shows hieroglyphics,one of our earliest form of“writing”

600 BCE - 600 CE Sassanian Coin

-Mesopotamia(present day Iran)-Made in c 590 CE-Used toward theend of Mesopotamiato represent Sassanian King Khusrau II

600 CE - 1450 The Quran

-Put together in SaudiArabia by Abu Bakr-Put together after Muhammad’s death in 632-This region has a dominant Islamic presence (almost all), so this book has lots of meaning to the people

1450 - 1750 Astrolabe

-Found in Iran -Made in 1715-Shows the Scientific Revolution that took place in this era -Used to measure the angle of a slope

1750 - 1900 Suez Canal

-Egypt-Finished in 1869-Used to make maritime voyages cheaper and less time consuming fromEurope to South Asia

1900 - 2015 Al Qaida Flag

-Al Qaida is a Muslim extremist group that spans across the Islamicstates of this region-Founded in 1988- This flag represents the war onterror and global conflicts that have risen in this region post WWII

Resources- http://ninacg.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-is-quran.html- http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/galleries/level-1/room-42-islamic-art- http://www.dia.org/object-info/daf9ee09-ea49-4030-a358-e14704bcb9f6.aspx- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/worldhistory/rosetta_stone/- https://www.cefns.nau.edu/~schulz/image/hormazdII.html- http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/learningcollection/search.php?a_sort=date&a_t

range=-539%5E700&lcid=130- http://gcaptain.com/marit-monda-january-sixteen-twentytwelv/- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055630/Flying-proudly-birthplace-Libyas-re

volution-flag-Al-Qaeda.html- http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/04/03/pro-al-qaida-islamists-bomb-gaza-targets-t

o-uphold-salafist-morals/- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/network/alqaeda/indictment.html- https://www.hmoa.org/collections/touma-near-eastern-collection/- http://www.whyislam.org/the-origin-of-the-quran/#- http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/Quran.html- Strayer, R. (2011). Ways of the world: A brief global history with sources. Boston,

MA: Bedford/St. Martins.