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Culture/Civilization: The Abbasid Empire
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Date: 11/6/14
Peasants bore the burden of huge costs for maintaining the court
and imperial administration
Too many taxes and stealing from wealthier provinces led to the
abandonment of many villages
The harem and the view became the two symbols of women’s
increasing subjugation to men and confinement to the home in the
Abbasid era; women were often enslaved and forced to exist in
only some parts of the royal palace
Wealthy women were kept at home
Abbasid empire was crumbling from within because rival
dynasties arose to challenge Abbasid power.
Nomads also threatened including Mongols and Berbers
The Sunni-Shi’a divide and succession problems led to internal
conflict
By the 10th century, independent kingdoms had developed and
Baghdad was lost; the Buyids and Seljuk Turks took over;
defeated the Byzantines
Crusades: Christians conquered parts of the holy land, including
Jerusalem
Monsoon winds alternated between flows to the sea or land
according to the time of the year in the India Ocean
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Dhows supported Muslim and Sufi holy men
Mass conversions of conquered peoples to the religion of Islam
were mainly due to the efforts of missionaries – people who
traveled in dhows and spread the faith
Arabic language, advanced technologies such as water pumps and
windmills, science, law and philosophy were also transported by
dhows
Crusades intensified European borrowing from the Muslim world
(i.e. weapons, building fortifications, recovered Greek learning,
rugs, textiles
More Muslim influences: Persian and Arabic words, games such
as chess, chivalric ideals and troubadour ballads, food such as
dates, coffee and yogurt; Muslims showed little interest in
learning from the West
Dhows – sailing vessels found from the Mediterranean to the
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Indian Ocean; really fast, triangular sail allowed them to tack
against the wind
Dhows transported goods
Civil violence led to great economics costs for the Abbasids
Slave trade: slaves captured and purchased in the non-Muslim
regions surrounding the empire, including the Balkans, central
Asia, and Sudanic Africa
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and Conflict
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forms of governance
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nationalism
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revolutions
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transregional, and
global structures
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disease
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Han Dynasty
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and Conflict
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forms of governance
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nationalism
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revolutions
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transregional, and
global structures
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disease
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Mauryan Dynasty
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Gupta Dynasty
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global structures
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Greek city-states
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forms of governance
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nationalism
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transregional, and
global structures
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Hellenistic Empire
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Culture/Civilization:
Social Structures
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Gender roles and
relations
 Family and kinship
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constructions
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classes
(Political)StateBuilding, Expansion
and Conflict
 Political structures and
forms of governance
 Empires
 Nations and
nationalism
 Revolts and
revolutions
 Regional,
transregional, and
global structures
and organizations
Interaction Between
Humans and the
Environment
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disease
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philosophies and
ideologies
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Roman Empire
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Culture/Civilization:
Social Structures
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Gender roles and
relations
 Family and kinship
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constructions
 Social and economic
classes
(Political)StateBuilding, Expansion
and Conflict
 Political structures and
forms of governance
 Empires
 Nations and
nationalism
 Revolts and
revolutions
 Regional,
transregional, and
global structures
and organizations
Interaction Between
Humans and the
Environment
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disease
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Technology
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philosophies and
ideologies
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