HIST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Abbasid Caliphate, Jizya, Standing Army
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Spread of islam: appeal, lower class, women, devotional, quran, conquest (jihad, struggle (good v evil, taxes, trade, prosolitizing. Jizya: pay to pray tax, low conversion due to , arab elite, sharia, quran based law, gender, women have more rights (never equal, protected by quran, ruler lived lavishly, corrupt. Abassids (750-1258 ce: administration (persian techniques, satrapies, standing armies. Incorporate non-arabs into government: separate church and state loosely, focused on converts, baghdad, gender, women decline in status, golden age of islamic period, decline beginning in the early 9th c, succession disputes, decentralization, mongols--1258. Ro(cid:373)e"s you(cid:374)ger, prettier, more uccessful ister: eastern & western roman empire, byzantium, caesaropapism, council of nicea. Justinian: theodora, nika riots, hagia sophia, great schism, patriarch, eastern orthodoxy. Anatolia: modern day turkey, fertile along the coast, byzantium= constantinople= istanbul. Why did the east outlive the west: leadership, location, thick walls built around city, urban, old greek city-states, wealthier; controlled routes.
