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Muslims Empires
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| caliph | a successor |
| sunni | first four caliphs were the rightful rulers |
| shia | only Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law, was legitimate |
| emir | a Muslim governor |
| bureaucracy | a system of departments and agencies that carry out the work of the government |
| Caliph Abd Malik | a unified Umayyed Empire by making the official language Arabic |
| Damascus | the capital city of the Umayyed Empire |
| Baghdad | a major trading center on the Tigris river |
| standing army | powerful force stationed throughout the Abbasid Empire |
| inclusion | the action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure |
| golden age | the peak of an empire |
| mercenary | people from different area's payed to defend the Empire |
| Reconquest | Christian kingdoms sought out to take back the land of the Umayyed Empire controlled |
| King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella | rulers of Spain that drove the Muslims out of Spain |