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The Umayyads
The Abbasids
Muslim Rule in Spain
Important Terms
People and Places
100
A group that opposed the Umayyads, and eventually took power, overthrew the Umayyads, and took over the empire.
Who are the Abbasids?
100
The art of fine handwriting widely practiced during the Abbasid empire.
What is calligraphy?
100
The capital of Muslim Spain, and, in 1000, the largest city in Western Europe.
What is Cordoba?
100
A fighting force maintained even in times of peace.
What is a standing army?
100
The name for Muslim Spain.
What is al-Andalus?
200
The capital city of the Umayyad empire.
What is Damascus?
200
The capital of the Abbasid Empire, known as "a marketplace for the world".
What is Baghdad?
200
The name give to Spanish Jews in al-Andalus.
What is "Sephardic"?
200
A system of government involving a network of departments.
What is a bureaucracy?
200
Southwestern tip of Europe (present location of Spain and Portugal).
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
300
A prominent Umayyad who escaped the Abbasids and fled to Spain to re-establish the Umayyad dynasty.
Who is Abd al-Rahman?
300
The outside force from Central Asia that captured Baghdad from the Abbasids in 1055.
Who are the Seljuk Turks?
300
A doctor who published a 30-volume medical encyclopedia in the late 900s.
Who is al-Zahrawi?
300
A period in which a country or culture is at its peak.
What is a golden age?
300
A caliph in the 7th century who imposed a common language and currency.
Who is Abd al-Malik?
400
Muslim governors that ruled the far-off regions of the Umayyad empire.
Who are emirs?
400
The faction that challenged Abbasid rule and drove them out of what is now Egypt and Tunisia.
Who are the Fatimids?
400
The first caliph of Cordoba, who came to power in 912 and strengthened the Muslim empire in Spain.
Who is Abd al-Rahman III?
400
A soldier who is paid to fight.
What is a mercenary?
400
The Persian doctor who wrote "The Canon of Medicine", which organized all known medical knowledge.
Who is Ibn Sina? (Or Avicenna)
500
The battle at which Christian forces stopped Muslim advances into Europe.
What is the Battle of Tours?
500
The mathematician who published a book whose name is the origin of the word 'algebra'.
Who is al-Khwarizmi?
500
A scholar who completed an encyclopedia of geographic knowledge in 1154.
Who is al-Idrisi?
500
An opposing group.
What is a faction?
500
The Persian poet Omar Khayyam was considered a master of this poetic form.
What is the quatrain?