• First, consider how objects are part of your classroom discussions, lecturers, or activities. Please share creative ways that you incorporate material culture into your classroom.

The use of material culture into my classroom will make an impact on everyone. I would use realia to help with my lessons. Seeing an object and being able to touch it and feel it helps allows students to connect words and concepts with real-world objects and experiences.

• How do the coins expand your knowledge of the caliphates and the trade system in the early Islamic world? 

Coins expand my knowledge of the caliphates and the trade system in the early Islamic world because it stated a sense of presence and or rapid growth of Islam in the world.

• How do you see religion and politics blending together in the minting of these gold coins? 

I see religion and politics blending together in the minting of these gold coins because we learn about the specific time period, rulers, government, the impact of religion on these coins.

-Nancy Tallas