1. Rise of Abbasids
Chapter 10 Section 2

2. Objectives
Understand differences between Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties
Understand the decline of the Abbasid dynasty
Identify changes made during the Abbasid dynasty

3. Beginning of Abbasids Abu al-Abbas Leader
Shiite and non-Arab Muslim support
Founds Abbasid (uh BAS id)
Killed Umayyad family
1 left: flee to Spain

4. Changes Equality of Muslims Stop military conquests wealth and power
No discrimination towards non-Arab Muslims
Stop military conquests
wealth and power
Capital moves: Damascus to Baghdad
Adopts Persian culture

6. Baghdad Poets, scholars, philosophers Exceeded Constantinople
Markets, mosques, palace
Domes and minarets: slender towers on mosques

7. Muslim Culture in Spain
Surviving Umayyad family
Tolerant of other religions
Center of learning
(No Abbasid rule)

8. Decline… Shiite rule takes power in faded regions
Seljuk Turks take control 1055
Seljuk Sultan: ruler
Controls Baghdad but keeps Abbasid caliph
Eventually leads to Crusades

9. Decline… (continued) 1216: Genghis Khan lead Mongols to southwest Asia
1258: Grandson burns Baghdad
Kills last Abbasid caliph

10. Create a Venn Diagram depicting the similarities between Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties
Differences
Differences

11. Questions:
How did the issue of heredity cause the division of Islam into Sunni and Shiite Muslim?
What are three reasons for the success of Muslim conquests?
How did the Umayyad treatment of non-Muslims and non-Arabs affect their empire?
What caused the Abbasid dynasty to decline?