Across
- 2. another word for chief administrator
- 4. the Ottomans ended this empire
- 6. This church became one of Islams greatest mosques
- 7. Islamic learning had a special focus on sciences and ___
- 9. the Abbasid empires new captial
- 10. These people and their sons were confined to the palace
- 11. the increased size of the muslim ___ made it hard to hold the empire together
- 15. the amount of wives an Umayyad man could have
- 16. by the 9th century Muslims dominated this area
- 18. some slaves held powerful positions and gained this
- 20. He strengthened womens legal rights
- 22. ___ suffered from the opening of the empire to western trade
- 24. the Abbasid victory led to increased ___ expansion
- 25. The Umayyad men were mad when they didnt get their share of
- 27. both sexes in the Umayyad empire were equal before his rule
- 28. the rulers accepted ___ ruling concepts
Down
- 1. this group converted to Islam and became a major part of the Muslim world
- 2. they favorable status of ___ among the arabs prevailed
- 3. The conservative ___ blocked needed military reform
- 5. when defeated the Umayyads assasinated most of the ___ clan leaders
- 8. the Ottomans captured him
- 12. persians became the real source of ___ in the imperial system
- 13. ___ assulted the regional price structure
- 14. the amount of husbands the Umayyad women could have
- 16. These leaders had a dominate role in the Ottoman empire
- 17. the Umayyad political capital
- 19. in the 13th century, the ___ defeated the Seljuks
- 21. this religion group ruled Iberia for centuries
- 23. during the 14th and 15th centuries the Ottomans moved into the ___.
- 26. these writings were saved and later on passed onto the Christian world