Eventi
Mu'awiya is the chosen 5th caliph.
He decides to move the capital to
Damascus and starts to improve the
empire's administrationMassacre in Karabala where Yazid's general
attacks Hussein and the people he was
traveling with to the city of KufaYazid's son, Abd al-Malik conjoins
Muslim lands into an empire.The Dome of the Rock is built in JerusalemThe Battle of Tours halts the
expansion of Umayyad into
Europe by the Frankish forces
and their leader Charles MartelThe Abbasids, a rising group, took
down the Umayyads and killed many
of the Umayyad people so that they
wouldn't come back. They took over
a lot of Muslim lands.The Abbasids move capital to BaghdadThe Battle of Talas was due
to the espansion the Abbasids
were making to the east, which
was problematic to the ChineseCaliphs founded centers of study in between 813-833Al Khwarizmi adopts Hindu numerals and creates the numbering system that is used todaySeljuq Turkmen takes control of BaghdadThe first crusade happened because of
the Seljiq expanding, thus defeating Byzantines
and gaining control of Jerusalem.Crusades end, but trade
rises between east and west.With scientific and technological advances,
Ibn Sina writes the "Canon of Medicine"
an encyclopedia.The Shahnameh is published, a book
about the mythologized history of
Persian kings.12TH CENTURY
other stories such as "A Thousand
and One Nights" are produced in ArabicMongol invasion reaches Mesopotamia, which
puts a pause to all of the advances there was
beingAbd-al-Rahman being the only survivor of the
Umayyad dynasty establishes a capital in the
city of CordobaAbd-al-Rahman begins building the Great Mosque of Cordoba.Abd-al-Rahman takes advantage of the religious issues and he takes the title of a caliphUmayyads succeeded by other Muslim dynasties that lasts until 1492Ibn Rushd (1126-1198)
translated aristotle, and write about
medicine, philosophy, & physicsMoses Maimonides was a doctor, rabbi, and
philosopher. Lived in Spain and N. Africa. Died
in Egypt (1204)14TH CENTURY
Architectural achievements was
the Alhambra. Begun in the 11th
century, but completed in the 14
century
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