Abbasid

Question 1

Capital

Answer 1

Baghdad

Question 2

How tolerant

Answer 2

More tolerance for non-Arabs even wanted to convert

Question 3

Trading revitalized where

Answer 3

Afro-European

Question 4

Dhous

Answer 4

Sailing vessels with lateen sails

Question 5

Ayan

Answer 5

Deeply entrenched landed elite

Question 6

Known for

Answer 6

Culture

Question 7

One of main influences

Answer 7

Persia

Question 8

What they did with Umayyad

Answer 8

Killed all but 1

Question 9

Royal executioner and turned on Shia

Answer 9

Absolutist

Question 10

Government

Answer 10

Bureaucracy

Question 11

Relationship with allies and who allies were

Answer 11

Rejected them

Shia

Question 12

Abbasid was what age of Islamic culture

Answer 12

Golden age

Question 13

Dhous brought

Answer 13

Islam
Arabic
Water pumps
Wind mills

Question 14

Trade routes

Answer 14

Arabian
Mediterranean
Indian

Question 15

Al-Mahdi

Answer 15

Luxury
Wives
Concubines
Kids
Financial drain
Failed to solve succession problem and Sunni Shia split

Question 16

Harun al-Rashid

Answer 16

Similar to father luxury
Death prompted 1st civil war
Documented in 1000 and 1 nights

Question 17

Caliphs continually

Answer 17

Assassinated

Question 18

Slave armies were of what descent

Answer 18

Turkic

Question 19

Downfall characteristics

Answer 19

Spiraling taxation
Outright pillaging
Built new cities to get away from chaos
Failure of irrigation

Question 20

Women had to wear

Answer 20

Harem and veil

Question 21

Rulers women

Answer 21

Wives and concubines

Question 22

Slave concubines and servants freedom

Answer 22

More freedom than wives

Question 23

Buyids

Answer 23

Regional splinter dynasty successor to Abbasid