- A Caliph is a king
- What did the Umayyads conquer?
- Arabia
- Persia (Modern Iran)
- North Africa (excluding Egypt)
- Spain
- Arabs
- Muslim (from birth)
- Can become army officers
- Christian/Jew
- Everywhere else
- Conquered
- Pay extra taxes
- Mawali
- Someone who converts to Islam
- Conquered
- Convert
- BIg Ideas
- Islam gets SUPER big under Umayyads
- Politically unified
- Ethnicity matters more than religion
- Phase III - "Unity Lost" (750 - 1200)
- Spain is held onto by the Umayyads Caliphate until 1492
- Heartlands is held onto by the Abbasid Caliphate until 1258
- North Africa is held onto by the Fatimid Caliphate
- Social Structure Change Under the Umayyads
- Non Arab Muslims are then allowed to become army officers and become government officials
- Cultures in contact with Islam
- Arabian
- Byzantine (Greek-Eastern Rome)
- North Africa
- The rest of Africa (via trade)
- Persia
- India (via Pakistan)
- Western Europe (via. Spain Crusades)
- Islam is a melting pot of cultures!
- Art, science, literature, math, astronomy, philosophy
- Got decimal system from India and gave it to the rest of us :')
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