Umayyad
The last Umayyad leaders were murdered by
Who are the Abbasids?
Following the murder of the Umayyads the Abbasids moved their capital to here
What is Baghdad
Cordoba was an important cultural center because it had so many of these
What are libraries?
A golden age is best described as this
What is a time during which a society or culture is at it's peak. Something like that
Another name for ruler in the Muslim world
What is caliph?
This person declared Arabic as the official language of the empire
Who was Abd al-Malik
The Abbasids created this to hold on to power
What is a standing army?
These two groups threatened the rule of Abd al-Rahman III in al-Andalus?
Who are Muslim factions, Christian armies, Fatimid, or Abbasids
The Abbasids learned this from the Chinese
What is paper making?
The Abbasids used calligraphy for this purpose
What is decoration?
This is the method the Umayyads use to govern their empire
What is bureaucracy?
True of False the Abbasids supported the arts and culture to display their wealth
What is true
The capital of Umayyad Spain
What is Cordoba?
This person was a mathematician but also a famous poet
Who is Omar Khayyam?
The center of the Muslim empire geographically was this
What is North Africa?
Name the three ways the Umayyads unified their empire
What is common language (Arabic), coinage, and bureaucracy?
These people conquered Baghdad and controlled the empire after the Abbasids
Who are the Seljuk Turks?
Abd al-Rahman III paid these people to fight for him
Who are mercenaries?
The contribution by al-Zahrawi made that helped to the make the golden age in al-Andalus?
What are medical encyclopedias?
List the three reasons why the Abbasids fell
What are Seljuk Turks, Fatimid Revolt, and poor leadership
He was the only Umayyad to escape the murder of his family.
Who is Abd al-Rahman.
How were all people treated under the reign of the Abbasids
What is equally?
How many libraries and books were in Cordoba?
What is 70 libraries and over 400,000 books?
These were two books created during the reign of the Abbasids
What are Sinbad the Sailor and the Thousand and One Nights?
The Umayyads took control of these places during their rule.
What are Central Asia, W Northern Africa, and Iberian Peninsula?