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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