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Square building in Mecca, that is sacred to Muslims
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Place south of Bahgdad, where Husayn would meet on the battle field with Yazid.
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What type of muslims want a blood ruler of Islam?
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What does Husayn believe will happen when he is headed to go fight Yazid?
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That he will build an army as he travels
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What does Yazid have access to in Syria, that gives him an advantage over Husayn?
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He has access to good trade
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The backing of an army his dad built
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He also has access to great agriculture
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To all muslims, who is important?
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Husayn brought his young son to get some water, and the son is rewarded with what?
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An arrow through his body
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Several of Muhammad's great grand children are killed alongside who?
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Shi'ites believed that Husayn's death, was a sign that the world can't be good until what condition is met?
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That the relatives of Muhammad take control of Islam
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What type of Muslims follow the Caliph?
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What type of Muslims follow the Imam?
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What are Caliphs?
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Appointed leaders of Islam
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Who are Imams?
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Blood relatives of Muhammad
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What was the Day of Ashura?
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The day of which Husayn was killed
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Shi'ites believe they were persecuted on what day?
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The Day of Ashura: The day of which Husayn was killed
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Martyrs are not cool in Islam because...
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That's non-tawhid, its not with the oneness, it is idolism.
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What is Tahwid?
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What is Umma?
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The community that unified by shared faith
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Non-Arab Muslims of Sunnis and Shi'ites band together, lead by Abbas, to stop what?
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The persecution of Non-Arab Muslims
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What did Abbas claim?
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He claimed to be a descendant of Muhammad
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Abbasa established a dinner with the claim that everyone should band together to form an Umma...but in reality what was the purpose
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To kill most of his enemies and hide the bodies in rugs
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Multiple Muslim dynasties begin to form, and created what in Islam?
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A competition between Muslim Dynasties
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What was Abbasa's dynasty called?
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What are the big focuses of this section?
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Change and spread of religion
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State Building
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Increased trade and contact
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After Abbasa's dinner, more Muslim dynasties began to what?
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Form in different areas to compete with the Abbasid dynasty
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Abbas was Persian, and he imitated what of their cultures?
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Established Bureaucratic Ministries of Finance, a Postal Service
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Creating huge palaces bigger than temples
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Huge Harems
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Lots of Ceremony
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Becoming an absolute, disconnected ruler, he is more removed from the people
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Uses a capital city to impress people, and names it after the land of God
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What city did Abbas build that would become the new capital?
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What is the strategic significance of Baghdad?
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Centralized
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Near the Tigris and Euphrates and has good agriculture
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Enuchs are good for what reasons?
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They can't ejaculate
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That don't have family ties
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They were appointed to protect women
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Due to a lack of family ties, they were considered good politicians
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Where are they getting Enuchs in the Abbasid Empire?
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France
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They were getting young boys and turning them into Enuchs
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The Abbasid Empire began to offset the power of noble families with what?
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Turkish guards
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Who were Turkish guards?
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Enslaved men raised to be soldiers
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In the Turkish world, they felt that the way to move up the social class ladder, was what?
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To be enslaved
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Abba got rid of laws that did what?
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Persecuted non-arab muslims
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Non-arab muslims had to pay what tax?
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What is a joint-stock company?
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A company that throws money into a pot, that work together to form a business
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It helps to spread out the cost of the business
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Changes in trade accompany what?
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Trades in religion
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Religions with a lot of rules, end up being what?
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Toned down in order to fulfill personal needs
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Sunnis became what?
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Shi'ites became what?
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Who are Sufis?
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Those who want to have a mystical union with God
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They believe anyone can teach about God, and they can teach in whatever language the people understand
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Drunken Sufis are drunk on God's love
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Some Sufis taught that you should be an ascetic, and others taught that you should follow Jesus to follow Allah.
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Rumi was a Sufi who taught what?
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What is Tariqua?
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A sufi path to be a good Islam
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What would you join to follow a Tariqua?
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Why would some Sunnis kill Sufis?
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Because some Sufis have crazy beliefs
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If someone is going to kill you, pretend not to be a Sufi
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Who's descendants are the Imams?
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What do Shi'ites do?
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They choose an Imam and follow that Imam's teachings
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Who are Twelvers?
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Those who follow the twelfth Imam
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The largest group of Shi'ites
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What is a fun fact about Eleventh Imam?
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He was held under house arrest by the Caliph of the Abassid Empire
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What was the fate of the son of the Eleventh Imam?
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He disappeared, and Allah took him to bring him back when the world is needed
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How do you get the teachings of the Twelfth Imam?
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Certain people can communicate with the the Twelfth Imam
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Every time a leader dies in Islam, what happens?
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That leader's sons fight
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Islam is Fragmented in what ways?
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Politically and Religiously
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How did the last Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty die?
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He was wrapped in a carpet and stomped to death
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