Arabic Expansion
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Updated: 2 Nov 2018
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Created byChristian Rivas Guerrero
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Mu'awiya emphasized the latter,
moved his capital to Damascus
and began to reform the
new empire's administration.The massacre at Karbala and is still mourned
annually by Shi'a Muslims.Abd al-Malik spread his grandfather's administrative
reforms across North Africa and Persia, made Arabic
the common language, constructed mosques in all
new lands, and perhaps most importantly, unified
the coinage of the empire.The Dome of the Rock
was constructed in JerusalemThe Umayyad Expansion into Europe was stopped
in the west by Charles Martel and his Frankish
forces at the Battle of ToursThe Abbasids brought down the UmayyadsA Persian-Arab coalition from Khorsan,
seized power over Muslim landsThe Abbasids moved
the capitalto BaghdadBattle of TalasSeljuq Turkmen who had
gradually moved into
Abbasid Territory,
took control of BaghdadFirst CrusadeCrusades EndedCanon of Medicinde is writtenThe Shahnameh was publishedThe creativity that had flowed from
Baghdad for four centuries came to
a crashing haltCity of Cordoba is establishedConstruction began on the Great Mosque of CordobaAbd al-Rahman took advantage
of religious conflinct in the Middle-
East and named himself CaliphThe Umayyads were ultimately replacedPeriods
Al-Ma'mun Reigned
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