By:
Simona Alomary
So Now That You Know About How the Caliphates Divided Islam….Answer These Questions! True or False?
1. The birth of Muhammad led to the rise of different Caliphates. ____________________
2. The Umayyad Caliphate fell in 750 CE when the Abbasid family took power.
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3. The controversy of Ali’s right to rule became further developed into the beliefs of Sunnis and Shi’ites.
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4. Hasan succeeded his father Ali. ________________ Multiple Choice:
5. Where were the mountain warriors that defeated the Abbasid caliphate from? A. Daylam, in southern Iran
B. Saudi Arabia
C. Daylam, in northern Iran
D. Persia
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IMPORTANT- The invention of the stirrup was one of the most important. It first came from the Kushan people who ruled northern Afghanistan. The stirrup gave riders far greater stability in the saddle.
Using stirrups, a warrior could carry his bow and arrow with a long lance and charge his enemy without the fear of falling off.
Important Points:
• Long-distance travel suited the people of the steppes more than the Chinese because they were cattle herding nomads.
• The trading demands that brought the Silk Road into being were Chinese eagerness for western products, especially horses and on the western end, the organized Parthian state, which had capture the flourishing markets of Mesopotamia from the Seleucids.
-Sasanid Empire, 224-600
• Rise of the empire brought up the rivalry between Rome and the Parthians along the Euphrates and intensified trade along the Silk Road.
• Came from the southwest, the same region that earlier gave rise to the Achaemenids
• The Silk Road now brought many new crops to Mesopotamia. (Cotton, sugar cane, rice, citrus trees, eggplants, and other crops adopted from India and