The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam - Unit 1
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The Sunni-Shia Split
dispute over who would be the caliph after Muhammad died major divide between denominations in Islam
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Sunnis
believed that any one could be successor and that they should get to vote who the successor will be
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Shias
believed that blood relatives should become the succesors
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Caliphate
a muslim empire
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Length of Abbasid Caliphate's Reign
750 - 1258
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Muslims were the number one group in...
trading
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Capital of Abbasid Caliphate
The city of Baghdad
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Abbaside Caliphate referred to as...
the golden age of Islam
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The Abbasid Caliphate was the ... of the world from 8th to 13th century
intellectual center
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Islam was concentrated in...
Arabian penninsula, mediterannean and north africa
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Muslims value...
knowledge
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Things muslims adopted from the chinese
papermaking, and gunpoweder
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Who invented algebra?
Al-jabr
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House of Wisdom
study center that had many scientists and academics, translation department, and library that housed knowleged acquired by the abbasids, inclusive of other religons
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Destroyed Baghdad in 1258
The Mongols
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People from all around the world came to...
research
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In the 800s, the Abbasid Caliphate
lost provinces and fragmented
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Ibn Sina
made advances in medicine and anatomy such as performing cataract surgery and teeth fillings for cavities
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