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