Chapter 7 Review for Midterm Flashcards
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| 297003661 | Al-Mahdi | started the lavish court corruption | 0 | |
| 297003662 | Harun al-Rashid | Son of Al-Mahdi, continued spending, no clear successor | 1 | |
| 297003663 | Al-Mamum | hired mercenary army to defeat other people who wanted to be the caliph | 2 | |
| 297003664 | Abbasid decline | tries to move capital out of Baghdad several times, new unused buildings, mosques, bureaucracy and court, increased tax on middle and lower class, floods, famines, increased peasant uprising | 3 | |
| 297003665 | Declining role of women | increased slaves, increased women in harems, up to 4,000+ concubines for one caliph, veils, no more careers | 4 | |
| 297003666 | Buyid | Persian, sacks Baghdad, turns caliph into a puppet figure and have the sultan rule | 5 | |
| 297003667 | Seljuk Turks | Nomadic invaders from central Antatolia, sacked Buyids, purge Shi'a influence, strong military, setup basis for later Ottoman Empire | 6 | |
| 297003668 | 1095/6 | Pope Urban II calls for first Crusade | 7 | |
| 297003669 | purpose of Christian Crusades | Regain holy land from Muslims, power, and money | 8 | |
| 297003670 | Saladin/Salah-ud-din | Leader of Muslims against Crusaders | 9 | |
| 297003671 | European borrowing from Muslims | Damascene sword, lost volumes of Greek Literature, coffee, troubadour ballads, Muslim fortifications, Arabic numerals and decimals | 10 | |
| 297003672 | Muslims don't care | Muslim borrowing from Europeans | 11 | |
| 297003673 | Expansion of trade and professional classes | Growth of artisan and merchant classes, more doctors, scholars, legal experts, religious experts | 12 | |
| 297003674 | Persian flowering | Persian becomes official language of court, "high culture", the Latin to the greek | 13 | |
| 297003675 | Achievments | Sine, cosine, tangent, 3 categories of classification, objective experiment, accurate astronimical instruments and tables | 14 | |
| 297003676 | Ulama | Orthodox religious scholars | 15 | |
| 297003677 | Sufis | Wandering Islamic mystics | 16 | |
| 297003678 | Chinggis (Genghis) Khan | Mongols conquer central and east asian under his rule | 17 | |
| 297003679 | Hulegu Khan | Grandson of Chinggis, sacks Baghdad | 18 | |
| 297003680 | Islam v Hinduism | Egalitarian v Caste system, violent conflicts, religious tension | 19 | |
| 297003681 | Sind pirates | attack Muslim merchants, mamud of Ghazhi leads invasion | 20 | |
| 297003682 | Muslim borrowing from India | Scientific learning: astronomy, algebra, geometry, Arab numerals, Medicine, architecture, clothing, cuisine | 21 | |
| 297003683 | Sultans of Delhi | "princes of the heartland" | 22 | |
| 297003684 | Bhaki movement | prevented Mass conversion, included all people from all castes | 23 | |
| 297003685 | Spread of Islam to southeast | Controls trade in India, introduced to Indonesia, spread through trade and sufis | 24 | |
| 297008212 | Shah-Nama | "Book of Kings", lengthy epic poem in Persian | 25 |