Rise of Abbasids

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Rise of Abbasids

• Chapter 10 Section 2

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Objectives

• Understand differences between Umayyad and
  Abbasid dynasties
• Understand the decline of the Abbasid dynasty
• Identify changes made during the Abbasid dynasty

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Beginning of Abbasids

• Abu al-Abbas
• Leader
• Shiite and non-Arab Muslim support
• Founds Abbasid (uh BAS id) 750-1258
• Killed Umayyad family
• 1 left flee to Spain

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Changes

• Equality of Muslims
• No discrimination towards non-Arab Muslims
• Stop military conquests
• wealth and power
• Capital moves Damascus to Baghdad
• Adopts Persian culture

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Baghdad

• Poets, scholars, philosophers
• Exceeded Constantinople
• Markets, mosques, palace
• Domes and minarets slender towers on mosques

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Muslim Culture in Spain

• Surviving Umayyad family
• Tolerant of other religions
• Center of learning
• (No Abbasid rule)

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Decline

• Shiite rule takes power in faded regions
• Seljuk Turks take control 1055
• Seljuk Sultan ruler
• Controls Baghdad but keeps Abbasid caliph
• Eventually leads to Crusades

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Decline (continued)

• 1216 Genghis Khan lead Mongols to southwest Asia
• 1258 Grandson burns Baghdad
• Kills last Abbasid caliph

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• Create a Venn Diagram depicting the similarities
  between Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties

Umayyad
Abbasid
Similarities
Differences
Differences
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Questions

• How did the issue of heredity cause the division
  of Islam into Sunni and Shiite Muslim?
• What are three reasons for the success of Muslim
  conquests?
• How did the Umayyad treatment of non-Muslims and
  non-Arabs affect their empire?
• What caused the Abbasid dynasty to decline?