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chapter 10 - ?
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9th Grade
11/13/2010

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The Four Rightly Guided Caliphs
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Umar, Uthman, Ali, Abu-Bakr
They usred the Qur'an and Muhammad's actions as guides to leadership to spred Islam.
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jihad
Definition
Means striving and the inner stuggle against evil.
Also an armed struggle against unbelievers.
Spread Islam based on this belief by fighting other countries
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Muhammad
Definition
He lead his followers to the outskirts of Mecca.
he defeated the mecca leaders many people converted to Islam.
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split of the Muslims
Definition
Shi'a-they continued to resist the Umayyad's rule- also call the Shi'ites.
Sunni- Followers of Muhammad's example-didn't resist the rule Umyyad's
Sufi-rejected the luxurious life of the Umayyads
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Abbasids
Definition
took control of the empire from the Umayyads.
The murdered the Umayyad family.
they moved the capital to Baghad.
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Umayyads
Definition
They moved the capital to Damascus and they were all about wealth.
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mamelukes
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Military slaves
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Examples of crue; fighting methods by the mongols
Definition
Slaughtered whole population
drew arows rained from a clowed
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mamelukes
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military slave
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persians show respect to the persians
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They gave them support. Found that they can learn from them.
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Seljuks
Definition
A family of Turks.
They ca[tured Baghdad and removed the persians as government rulers.
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The First Crusade
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This was a war against the Byzantine empiror and the Seljiuk Turks.
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