are the descendants of Muhammad’s uncle‚ Al-Abbas. They ruled for a long time from 750 to 1258. In the 9th century the Abbasid Caliphate suffered a crisis. The Caliph lost trust generals and troops in areas. So‚ the Caliph Purchased Turkic slaves‚ mamluks‚ from Asia to form a standing army. The Mauryan and Gupta Empires were located in India by the Ganges Valley. The Mauryan Empire was named after the founder Chandragupta Mauryan. The Gupta Empire was named after Maharaja Sri Gupta. The Main
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then by disturbing their trade route. The official goal of the campaign was to save Egypt from being conquered by the Mamluks and they would colonize Egypt so they would not have to directly assault the British. Napoleon and his Army of Orient left Toulon on May 19th‚ 1798 and started his invasion through Egypt. They were victorious in the Battle of Pyramids‚ which forced the Mamluks to flee south to Upper Egypt. However‚ they victory was short-lived since the British strategically destroyed all of
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away to have a standing Army. In return the Empire needed to make a deal with the Normans whom were somewhat consequently always attacking Byzantium. This would have caused a problem in that in that the pact that Michael VII made had thinned the troops. The standing army that he had instituted during peace times sent these troops to other areas of the vast empire‚ areas of less importance. This left Constantinople unprotected and open for an outside attack to happen. “In 1081 Robert Guiscard abandons
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Assessment 02.03 The Crusades * In 1905‚ Pope Urban saw an opportunity for power and decides to help the leader of the Byzantine Empire by killing the turks. As the Pope is Christian‚ he doesn’t want power in hands of infidels (infidels are people who don’t believe in Christianity)‚ and as Turks are Muslim and did not believe in the same ideas as the pope he wanted to kill them. * In 1096‚ Peter the Hermit (a French monk) started the "people’s crusade" which was made up mainly by poor peasants
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regain control over the region. Deteriorating relations between the Crusaders and their Christian allies in the Byzantine Empire culminated in the sack of Constantinople in 1204 during the Third Crusade. Near the end of the 13th century‚ the rising Mamluk dynasty in Egypt provided the final reckoning for the Crusaders‚ toppling the coastal stronghold of Acre and driving the European invaders out of Palestine and Syria in 1291. By the end of the 11th century‚ Western Europe had emerged as a significant
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1324 Departure From Mali I have a wonderful life in Mali full of luxurys that would make anyone happy and more gold than I know what to do with. I am about to embark on a religious journey called a hajj to Mecca . I am doing not only for myself but also for my people. It is of greatest importance to me as a devout muslim to fulfill this important pillar of Islam. This trip will help me to spread knowledge of my kingdom to the world‚ helping people around me with my wealth‚ learning more about Islam
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Umayyad Mosque‚ Damascus‚ Syria Space and Symbolism By Shijo Jose (A/2371/2011) History of Architecture II Year Sem IV Great Mosque of Damascus‚ also called Umayyad Mosque‚ the earliest surviving stone mosque‚ built between ad 705 and 715 by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walīd I. The mosque stands on the site of a 1st-century Hellenic temple to Jupiter and of a later church ‘Basilica of Saint John the Baptist’. Some Syrio-Roman fragments remain in the structure‚ as does a shrine supposedly enclosing
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~~~FIRST CRUSADE - After the Normans had settled in France and conquered England‚ both France and England‚ and also the Holy Roman Empire‚ were stronger than they had been since the time of Charlemagne. Their kings and queensbegan to think‚ as he had‚ of reconquering the whole Mediterranean and recreating the Roman Empire. In particular‚ they wanted to take Jerusalem‚ the city ofJesus Christ‚ away from the Islamic Fatimids who were ruling it. In 1095 AD Pope Urban made a great speech at Clermont
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account seems to add validity to the accounts of Imad al-Din and Baha al-Din with the similarities of the women going out on the battlefield dressed in armor. the Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta Regis Ricardi. The translation of the Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta Regis Ricardi by Helen Nicholson and William Stubbs described women helping fill in ditches to aid in the battle of acre‚ picking lice from crusaders‚ and as washerwomen that accompanied the army (Nicholson and Stubbs‚ 1997). This
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the 91 succeeding bishops. The original title of the Armenian patriarchs of Jerusalem was Bishop/Archbishop of Jerusalem. In the later Middle Ages‚ the archbishops of Jerusalem assumed the title of patriarch and received recognition as such from the Mamluk rulers of Egypt‚ who were at that time in possession of the Holy Land (Badr
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