Muhammad Flashcards
Vlama
Interpreting Quran/ Hadith to to create Islamic law code
Religion and law intertwined
Umayyad excluded who
Non Arabs from Arabs led to problem rebels in Malawi teamed up to demand social and religious equality they over three Umayyad dynasty
Who ruled the golden age of Islam
The Abbasid dynasty
Which dynasty was more accepted by shi ites
The Abbasids dynasty cuz they said they were decendents of Muhammad uncle
What did the Abbasid dynasty do that helped establish Islam as a universalizing religion
Opened to all on a equal basis
Who we’re the Abbasid beat by
Islam was the cultural..
The Mongols
Glue held other areas conquered. By Muslims together
Key feature of mosque
Minaret or prayer tower
Trade ad communication in Islam led to
Sharing new crops
Farming techniques
Increase in food supply surplus of crops to support growing city
Decline of the ABbasid caliphate
Hostility between Sunni and shi ite
Hard to control vast lands from ONE centralized location
When rebellions broke out they couldn’t move across the big domain
Slave revolts and peasant outbreaks
Who did the Abbasid depends on that we’re skilled horsemen
The Seljuk Turks
Worked for their army
tughril beg was their sultan
He took over Baghdad and caliph was only a figure head
What did the Turkish groups in Islam fighting lead to
Weakness so invasion by Mongols who seized them and destroyed caliphate a
MONGOL 11 - KHAN empire now
They converted to Islam the faith was too strong
Early Middle Ages Europe
Pastoral nomads inhabited the kingdom
Tribal chieftains were political leaders
LITTLE long distance trade
Small towns
THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES Europe
Signs of RECOVERY
Towns grew CITIES EMERGED
trade w eastern hemisphere stablished
Complex social system grew
Who united all of Western Europe under one King
The franks
Series Germanic kingdoms under control through conquest
What did Clovis do
Ruler him and his supporters destroyed the vestiges of roman power and IMPOSED CONTROL ON OTHER FRANKS
Franks lost control to who
Charles Martel of CAROLINGIAN FAM
Charlemagne conquered Western Europe and TEMP UNIFIED
Rising of power to Carolingian family was because
Need for protection from Vikings
Jihad
The struggle
When was the Hinduism golden age
Gupta empire
Ashoka
3rd greatest ruler of the Mauryan dynasty
Growth of Buddhism
Decline of Han empire
Defending long borders from nomadic invasions
Expense became problems
Official corruption
Peasant uprisings
Dynastic cycle
Vedas
And most important
Religious texts passed down generation to generation of Aryana
Rig Vedas
Upanishads
Works that reflected about universal spirits aka Brahman
Trade expanded during Han or Qin
Han
Under Qin
Legalism Centralized authority ONE ruler SHI HUANGDE Servants contributed to labor of the Great Wall Standardized law
What did Han wudi do
Issued a royal decree
Centralized power
Expanded Chinese frontiers
He followed after liu
Qin didn’t value who
Shi as highest or scholar gentry didn’t existing
Plebeians were represented by who
General assembly
The senate had control
Plebeians protested lack of power and gov have them
Tribunes
Later controlled by senate
Senate power challenged by
Julius Caesar
Octavian battled
Mark Antony in battle of actium and senate declared him the revered one
Punic wars
W Carthage
Rome won and more economic power to time they took control of lands an fed expansion
Peloponnesian war
Between Athens and Sparta
Fights among city states
All weak and vulnerable to conquest by Macedonia
Under who did Persia reach its maximum extent
Darius
Ionia was
Governed by Persians and inhabited by Greeks
Darius sent troops to end the rebellions but the Greeks defeated Persians at battle of marathon
Xerxes
Defeated at battle of Thermopylae
Significance of Persian wars
Boost to Athens they formed the Delian league under Pericles
Decline of Persian power
3 major art forms of Greek
Drama
Lyric poetry
Classical architecture
Vizier
Head of gov directed by caliph
