Across
- 5. very powerful group who built a great empire
- 7. the group that took over the Umayyads
- 10. fine art of handwriting
- 11. the southwestern tip of Europe
- 12. Umayyads capital
- 13. a maintained fighting force
- 15. a department that carries out work of the government
- 16. 8th emir
- 18. opposing groups
- 20. the peak of a culture
Down
- 1. new capital for the Abbasids
- 2. the person who wrote the medical encyclopedia
- 3. Muslim Spain
- 4. master poet
- 6. numerical system and zero
- 8. when the Muslims go for a adventure to Mecca
- 9. the group that lost to the Umayyads
- 14. soldiers paid to fight
- 17. the person who solved the multi-language problem
- 19. new capital