fighting force that is maintained in times of peace as well as times of war
What is a standing army?
100
a Persian-born Muslim poet who usually wrote in quatrain form and was also a great mathematician
What is Omar Khayyam?
100
They set up a bureaucracy
How did the Umayyads govern their empire?
100
wrote the Canon of Medicine
Who was Ibn Sina?
200
Muslim Spain;
the area of Spain under Muslim control between the A.D. 700s and 1492
What is al-Andalus?
200
a soldier paid to fight
What is a mercenary?
200
a Muslim ruler who became caliph in A.D. 685. He
established a common language (Arabic) and a common coinage
Who is Abd al-Malik?
200
battle between Christian & Muslim forces led by Charles Martel. Christian forces won and Europe remained Christian
What was the Battle of Tours?
200
wrote the Guide for the Perplexed
Who was Maimonides?
300
southwestern tip of Europe; present location of Spain and Portugal
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
300
opposing group; a small group whose interests run counter to those of a larger group of which they are part
What is a faction?
300
eighth emir of al-Andalus, during whose reign al-Andalus reached the height of its power, and first caliph of Cordoba
Who was Abd al-Rahman III?
300
Muslim governors
What are emirs?
300
was known as "the Hammer"
Who was Charles Martel?
400
period in which a country or culture is at its peak
What is the golden age?
400
capital of al-Andalus
What is Cordoba?
400
invited Umayyad leaders to a meeting and ordered his men to kill them
Who was Abdullah?
400
the capital of the Umayyad empire (1st) moved from Medina to this place
What is Damascus?
400
wrote a medical encyclopedia
Who was Al-Zahrawi?
500
system of government in which a network of departments and agencies carries out the administrative work
What is a bureaucracy?
500
a city, located in what is now Iraq, that was the capital of the Abbasid Empire
What is Baghdad?
500
Umayyad leader who escaped Abbassid massacre and fled to Spain
Who was Abd al-Rahman?
500
1.) algebra & geometry
2.) Canon of Medicine
3.) Papermaking
4.) Calligraphy
5.) Accurate calendars -astronomy
6.) Poetry-Quatrain form;
Are some of this groups advances
Who are the Abbasids?
500
these led to the decline of Abbasid rule
What was 1.) poor leadership (rulers ignored government responsibilities 2.) Fatimid Revolt 3.) The Seljuk Turks