Transcript Rise of Abbasids

Rise of Abbasids
Chapter 10 Section 2
Objectives
• Understand differences between Umayyad
and Abbasid dynasties
• Understand the decline of the Abbasid
dynasty
• Identify changes made during the Abbasid
dynasty
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
Changes
• Equality of Muslims
– No discrimination towards non-Arab Muslims
• Stop military conquests
• wealth and power
• Capital moves: Damascus to Baghdad
– Adopts Persian culture
Baghdad
• Poets, scholars,
philosophers
• Exceeded
Constantinople
• Markets, mosques,
palace
• Domes and
minarets: slender
towers on mosques
Muslim Culture in Spain
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Surviving Umayyad family
Tolerant of other religions
Center of learning
(No Abbasid rule)
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
Decline… (continued)
• 1216: Genghis Khan lead Mongols to
southwest Asia
• 1258: Grandson burns Baghdad
– Kills last Abbasid caliph
• Create a Venn Diagram depicting the similarities
between Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties
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?