In this lesson, which is for a high school level world history class, students will examine the primary source documents the Pact of Umar and compare/contrast them to the Nazi-era Nuremburg Laws. Students will pay particular attention to the specific role that clothing, and the placement of clothing, in these laws was used to essentially control populations. Students will research these two documents, and find other supporting evidence, in order to answer the prompt: How were articles of clothing regulated in both medieval Islamic history, and during the Nazi era, to assist political leadership with population control? What political statement is being made by rulers that subjected individuals to this sort of treatment? Can you think of any modern examples where clothing, or clothing choice, was used to control a population? 

Responses should be written in an argumentative response of at least 5 paragraphs in length, be grammatically correct, and include proper citations and a bibliography.