The Rise of Muslim States

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The Rise of Muslim States

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Expansion under the Umayyads

• By 661, the Umayyads took over Islam.
• In less than 100 years, they had expanded the
  empire into Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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Abbasids Take Power

• By 750, there had been many attempts to overthrow
  the Umayyads
• Muslims were upset with their greed and the
  movement of the capital
• New capital gtgtgt Damascus (Syria)
• Abbasids successfully overthrow Umayyad and
  murder all but one

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The Golden Age of Islam

• Islam entered a golden age in around 800 AD.

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Advancements in art and design

• Muslims did not use the human form in art. They
  thought it took away from their worship of God.
• Arabic script began being used for art.
• Arabic is the language of the Quran.
• Artists became skilled at calligraphy.
• Calligraphy is the art of handwriting.
• Calligraphers decorated many things, including
  buildings.

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Literature

• Muslims also produced great works of literature.
• The most famous were stories of great adventure
  and fantasy called The Thousand and One Nights.
• Other famous stories like Sinbad the Sailor and
  Aladdin came out of this period of Muslim
  history.

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A Thousand and One Nights
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Sinbad the Sailor and Aladdin
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Mathematics

• Muslims invented a new numbering system, It was
  called, Hisab al-abr the addition of one thing
  to another.
• Al-jabr is the origin of the word
• algebra

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Medicine

• Muslim doctors were the first to identify and
  describe diseases such as smallpox and measles.
• They were the first to create public hospitals.
• Muslim doctors wrote an encyclopedia of drugs
  that was used for 600 years.
• They also created the first pharmacy schools.