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Chapter 7

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3rd Caliph, Al Mahdi   Court excesses  
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Abassid rule   Failed reconciliation to Shiites  
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No frugality   Taste for luxury  
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Monumental buildings   Many wives, concubines, courtiers  
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Al Mahdi problems   Failed to solve the problem of succession, waivered to which son and too many wives  
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Al Mahdi dies, eldest son is   Poisoned  
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Harun al Rashid, 786-809, sent   Emissaries from Charlemagne  
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Harun shows off   Mosques, water clock elephant  
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Luxury and intrigue of Harun's court immortalized by   "The Thousand and One Nights"  
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Age when Harun became caliph   23 years old  
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Harun used Persian advisors   Advisors grow in power  
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At Harun al Rashid's death   Full scale civil war over succession  
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Who won first civil war   Sons of al Mamun  
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Personal armies used   4,000 to 70,000 Turks  
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846 Caliphs killed   Mercenaries had power  
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Mercenaries bad pay led to   food riots and unrest  
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Slave armies   Under control  
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New capital   Near old capital  
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Construction of mosques, palaces puts   Strain on treasury  
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Strain on treasury   Taxes in peasants  
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Taxes in peasants leads to   No pay for mercenaries  
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Mercenaries thought wealth from empire   Some good commanders, most just milked the people  
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Taxes lead to   Villages abandoned  
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Villages abondoned lead to   Ruined irrigation  
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Ruined irrigation lead to   Starvation  
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Starvation leads to   Vagabonds  
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Vagabonds lead to   Crime  
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Crime leads to   No trade  
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No trade leads to   Riots, Shia - riots  
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Declining role of women   Harem in palaces, women restricted to palace  
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Declining role of women   Slave women free if sons  
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Declining role of women   11,000 eunuchs, 4,000 concubine slaves taken from Balkans, Sudanic Africa, Central Asia  
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Declining role of women   More time with slaves than wives  
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Declining role of women   Inherited money or married into it  
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Declining role of women   Married at age 9  
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Egypt and Syria break away   950 independent kingdoms  
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** Bayids of Persia   ** Invaded Abassid heartland, capture Baghdad  
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Leader title   Sultan  
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** Bayid & Abassid decline   ** 1055 Seljuk Turks  
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** 2 centuries Turkey military leaders   ** ruled in Caliph name  
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** Seljuk Turks purged   ** Shiites in Egypts  
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** Seljuk Turks humbled   ** Bysantine Empire  
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** Seljuk Turks, Asia minor opened   ** later became heart of Ottoman Empire  
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First of Crusade attacks, 1096-1099   Muslim, Jews slaughtered  
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8 Crusades   Reconquered holyland  
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Saludin, 12th century   Drives out Christians  
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Last Crusader kingdom falls   1291, fall of Acre  
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European gains from Crusades   Sword Damascus  
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European gains from Crusades   Fortification and medicine  
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European gains from Crusades   Arabic numbers and chess  
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European gains from Crusades   Trade in Italy, Muslims  
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Science, 750-1050   Best in the world  
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Science, 750-1050   Corrections to Algebra  
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Science, 750-1050   Advances in Trig, sine, cosine, tangent  
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Science, 750-1050   Chemistry Razi's scheme of classification animal, vegetable, mineral)  
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Science, 750-1050   Astrolabe, Astrology  
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Science, 750-1050   Cairo best hospital  
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Science, 750-1050   Paper making, silk weaving, ceramic firing  
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Religion, Mysticism   New vibrancy  
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Religion, Ulama religious orthodox   No non-muslim belief  
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Religion, Crusaders cause   No non-muslim belief  
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Religion, Al Ghazadi   Tried to reconcile both greek and muslim info  
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Sufist Movement   Wandering Mystics  
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Sufist Movement   Union with Allah  
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Sufist Movement   Meditation - drugs, essence, ecstatic dancing  
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Persia language replaces   Arabic  
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Literature, Epic poem   Shah-Nama (Book of Kings)  
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Epic poem led to   Epic art  
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Sadi, great poet   Everyday message with religion  
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Rubiyat, Persian literature   Mystical and commonplace  
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Nomadic Invasion   Chinggis Khan, 1220  
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Chinggis Khan's grandson, Hulego   Invaded Islamic civilization in 1250's  
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In Baghdad, 37th and last   Caliph put to death by Monguls  
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Monguls defeated by   Mameluks (Turkish slaves)  
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India, 5th century   Guptas fall  
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Harsha ruled 7th century   Father in Punjab region  
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Harsha builds kingdom   Favors bhudhism, builds up empire  
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Harsha dies   646 with no successor  
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Harsha pulled apart   Sind pirates  
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Sind attacked by   Qasim  
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Qasim   To Sind and Indus  
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Qasim executed by   New caliph  
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Examples of leadership   Continue  
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Hindu and Bhudhism   Protected  
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Islam Gains   Indian numbers  
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Islam Gains   Scientific learning  
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Islam Gains   Math and astronomy to Baghdad  
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Islam Gains   Medicine and music  
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Islam Gains   Food and elephants  
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Early immigrants   Assimilated into Indian society, not Islam!  
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Muslim - inflexible   Hindu - flexible  
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Muslim - monotheistic   Hindu - polytheistic  
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Muslim - egalitarianism   Hindu - hierarchy  
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Muslim - doctrine   Hindu - various forms of worship  
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Muslim - to know God   Hindu - to be one with God  
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