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Umayyads & Abbasids
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Umayyads & Abbasids
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http://lostislamichistory.com/the-abbasid-revolution/
Umayyads
Mu'awiyah
hereditary caliphate
Capital to Damascus
CONQUESTS
Est. & West of Mediterrean
North Africa
Berbers
Strait of Gibraltar to Spain
stopped @ battle of tours
Uneasy border w/ Byzantines
Old Roman Empire
Mesopotamia
Persia
Central Asia
wealth, new ethnic groups, contact with other civilizations
THE STRUGGLE BUS
bias towards Arabs v. non-arabs
Financial: were corrupt and terrible rulers
Capital far from frontier = hard to govern
hostile regions
HUSSEIN
72 people vs. 10,000. real stupid and all died, but everyone was like :0 and he became a martyr
split in Islam
Loss of Power
corrupt and overthrown
Abbasids
Abu Al- Abbas
Overthrew Umayyads; set up Abbasids in 750
Capital: Baghdad on Tigris
river traffic and caravan
Persian Influence
related to Muhammad- happy Shia
religion, not ethnicity- not happy shia but HAPPY not arabs
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