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The Arab Empire

The Arab Empire. Period one. Timeline. Arab Empire. Arab Empire . 610- Muhammad's First Revolution 622-The Islamic calendar was created 623- Muhammad dies 636 - The Battle of Yarmouk 750- The Abbasids massacre the Umayyads in Damascus and establish a new caliphate

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The Arab Empire

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  1. The Arab Empire Period one

  2. Timeline Arab Empire

  3. Arab Empire 610- Muhammad's First Revolution 622-The Islamic calendar was created 623- Muhammad dies 636 - The Battle of Yarmouk 750- The Abbasids massacre the Umayyads in Damascus and establish a new caliphate 756- Abd-ar-Rahman, escaping from the massacre of his family in Syria, establishes a new Umayyad dynasty at Cordoba 762- The Abbasid caliphs create Baghdad as a new capital city on the Tigris 1018- Byzantine troops conquered Bulgaria 1082- Venetian Treaty of 1082 1097- Siege of Nicaea

  4. Leaders and Politics Arab Empire

  5. Arab empire leaders and politics • the leader was known as a caliphate he served as a political leader and a religious leader. • In the middle of the 8th century CE,the Arabs split into two groups: the Sunni and the Shi’ah. • The political system of the Arabs was an autocracy.

  6. Territory and Major Conflicts Arab Empire

  7. Territory Covered

  8. Major Conflicts • The Arab Empire has had major conflicts with Israel.

  9. Cultural Contributions Arab empire

  10. Arab Empire:Cultural Contributions Arab Contributions to: Mathematics: • Arabs provided solutions for complicated math problems • The Arab decimal system simplified the course of science • Invented and developed Algebra Architecture: • Once they developed their skills they focused on the building of mosques and mausoleums • The countries that were influenced by the Arab architecture are Spain, Italy, France , Eastern Europe and Asia Medicine: • Improved the healing arts of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt • In the ninth century, Al-Razi, a medical encyclopedist. Was the first to diagnose smallpox and measles Religion • The Haigia Sophia was built

  11. Historical Significance Arab Empire

  12. Arab EmpireHistorical Significances Lebanon attempted to provide for power sharing 18 officially recognized religions; including Maronite ,Orthodox Christian, Sunni and Shii Muslims, and Druze The populations of the groups grew at different rates, which became less represented of the nation as a whole and civil war broke out. Religious conflict between Jews and Muslims ; control over important historical sites of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is in the disagreements, many have to do with control of land and access to water resources Many cultural leaders were not ethnically Arabs ; some were not even Muslims, but Christians and Jews. The East and Europe widened their civilization and contributed to world development; Europe was particularly important in Sicily, which they held from the 9th to the late 11th century the civilization of the Moors in Spain was part of the great Arabic pattern. Knowledge and scholasticism was the beginnings of modern Western science were parts from the Arabs. Also, the Arabs introduced Europe to the Greek philosophers, writings they had already translated into Arabic. The emergence of the Seljuk Turks in the 11th century and the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century ended Arab dominance in Islam but Muslim culture still remained on the old Arab foundations.

  13. Arab EmpireHistorical Significances • Arab Muslims Conquer and Convert Most of Arabian Tribes Under Muhammad (632 AD) • Muslim Arabs Conquer Iraq from Persian Sassanid Empire (633 – 636 AD) • Muslim Conquest of Persia (638 – 644 AD) • Arab Muslims conquer Egypt (641 AD). • Arab Muslims conquer large tracts of land from weakened Byzantine Empire by 656 AD. • Beginning of "First Fitna" (Muslim Civil War) in 656 AD: • Ali Selected as Caliph After Uthman's Assassination (656 AD) • Battle of Bassorah (656 AD) • Muawiyah Defeats Ali - Beginning of Umayyad Dynasty (657 – 661AD) • Muslim Capital Moved to Damascus, Syria (661 AD) • Iraqi Revolt (686 – 691AD) • Fall of the Umayyad Dynasty to Abbasid Dynasty (749 – 750AD) • Foundation of Baghdad by Abbasids (762AD): • Abbasid Decline (850 – 930AD) • Fatimid Dynasty Conquers North Africa & Syria (909 – 969AD)

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