The+Islamic+Influence

ESPIRIT chart on the Abbasid Era __Economy﻿ __ Main idea: Trade, agriculture and production of goods for transporting in and out were the main resources od economic successfulness in the Abbasid Era, the Muslims were very skillful and had many products with high demands for many people was a reson for their successfulness. __Politics __ Main idea: The political structure was well established that proved to be trategic using different caliphs and having secondary advisors to make better decision to further expand their religion.  (central government) __Social __ Main idea: The merchants and landlords had the higher class compared the peasants, slaves amd artists who filled the lower starta. The freedom that women experienced in the beginning were being transformed to the older beliefs of subordinations. __Interaction __ Main Idea: As a result of the well-ordered trade their was a lot of ethnic exchanges between people from Africa, Asia, and Europe that helped spreat philosphies and innovations. __Religion __ Main idea: The official religion is Islam but as it spread to different places it becomes syncratized by adopting their traditional beliefs to the religious values. __Intellectual __ __Technology __
 * Arab **dhows** sailing vessels carried goods for exchange, Muslim merchants often formed alliance with chritians and Jews.
 * Trade of luxury products for elite class.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Government workshop produce wide range of products such as glassware, jewelery, and carpets.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Agriculture using irrigation for producing cotton, grain and wool.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Expanding corps of bureaucrats servants and slaves who strove to translate abbasid political claim.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Growing power of **wazir** or chief administrator and the caliph inner councils.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They oversaw the builing of an administrative that allowed abbisad officials collect revenues and preserve law and order.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The **Buyids** of Persia invaded the heathland of the abbasid empire and captured Baghdad, taking the title of the sultan controlling caliph and court.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Christian crusades from western Europe determined to capture portion of Islamic empire, 18 of them produced no threat because of the leadership of Saladin.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**El-Mehdi** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> had abandoned the older ways and establishing a taste of luxury and monumental building <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">surrounding himself with wives, and courtiers, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> after him it was **Harun Al-Rachid** to ascend the throne.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mass conversions to Islam was encouraged for people of north Africa to the Persians and Turkic people of central Asia.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They could be excused from head tax and greater opportunities to get advanced schooling.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Several powerful Persian families close to the throne become the real power center.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Merchant and landlords were wealthy and have high social status.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Artists were poorly paid but were valued for their skills.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Unskilled labor was left to slaves serving caliphs and their advisors, many were able to buy their own freedom and rise to a better position others were forced to labor.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Aryan** a wealthy elite emerged in terms of arabs who invested their share of booty on land or merchants who funneled their profits into sizeable estates.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Peasants harvest in land they don't own, only occupy it as tenants of sharecoppering it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Harun's death promoted a civil war and social unrest over succession and an increase in peasantry.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The wives decline of position was forseen, the wives of the caliph were forbidden in some quarters of palace.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The caliph has many female and male slaves servant.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The female slaves did not have to wear veils and robes as required by free women in public places.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Women from lower class farm, wove cloth, and rugs, or raised silkworms to support their families, the rich women were allowed almost no career.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The expansion of professional classes, doctors, scholars, and religious experts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Muslim was committment to trade was crucial combining diffrent ethnic types.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There was a lot of contact between western Europe and Islamic world through trade and exchange of ideas.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It connected and reflected ideas that spread throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Al Ghazali** great islamic theologian regected by orthodox schools.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sufis were wandering mystics who saw personal union with Allahpremating universal status.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mongols brought waves of nomadic invations with commander **Chinggis Khan** 1220 and his grandson Hulegu renewed assault.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Baghdad** suffered and was supplemented by Cairo to the west and Istanbul to the North.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Many divisions were resulted fron the different interpretation of Quran.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jewel-constructed palaces, and marble audience halls in capital baghdad.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Great mosques and colorful palaces were beautifully built and decorated great architecture ability.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Science and mathematic contributions, much of the work of Greeks was recopied in arabic things on medicine, algebra, geometry, anatomy, and astronomy.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Greek works from aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, ptolemy, and Euclid.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Muslims learned Indian system of numbers, it was transmitted across the Mediterrenean to Italy all the way to Europe.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The luxury and intrigue was built Harun based on tale of **Thousand and One Night**.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Persian Arabic words, games as chess, chivalry, and food can be traced bach to the contacts of crusaders.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Artists achieved great architecture and crafts mosques were large and more ornate.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Muslim rugs were rarely matched.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Elegant writing and language, epic poem such as Shah-Nama relating to Islamic conquest, battles, and love affairs, mystical and beautiful women.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Algebra and geometric theories of ancient Greece, trigonometry (sine, cosine, and tangant)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Specific weight of 18 major minerals, astronomical instrument, papermaking, and silk weaving, and best maps in geography.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Muslim weapons were famous Damascene swords were highly prized.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Muslim technique of building fortifications were adopted by many christian rulers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Arab **dhows** sailing vessels carried goods for exchange

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Islam and Trade <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Global -the America trade)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Main idea: Islam as result of trade networks and usage of technological advances, in addition to the strong faith, beliefs and values within the religion lead to its appeal, expansion and developent. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Technology- Paper, Weapons, navigation tools (Compass), ships dhows, Al-Biruni calculated the exact specific weight of 18 major minerals. Sophisticated, improved astronomical instruments, such as the astrolabe, were used for mapping the heavens. Much of the Muslim achievement had practical application. In medicine, improved hospitals and formal courses of studies accompanied important experimental work. Traders and craftsmen introduced machines and techniques originating in China for papermaking, silk weaving, and ceramic firing. Scholars made some of the world's best maps. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Faith- On the religion the peligrimage to mecca and on their way people and merchants can meet other peole gain knowledge and ideas, exchange of goods and ships dhows and spices moving from the sea routes,glass, grain, and luxury products. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">intellectuals, Trade brought the religion into regions starting from Saudi Arabia, Silk road being a way for mechant to spread.

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