1.Who built the Round city in Baghdad? Describe its historical significance.
2.Why is the period under the Abbasid caliphate considered the Golden Age of Islam?
3.How did the Abbasids dynasty decline?
4.What did people in the west learn from going in the Crusades?
Answers
1)Who built the Round city in Baghdad? Describe its historical significance.
Mansur believed that Baghdad was the perfect city to be the capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasids. The Muslim historian al-Tabari reported an ancient prediction by Christian monks that a lord named Miklas would one day build a spectacular city around the area of Baghdad.
2)Why is the period under the Abbasid caliphate considered the Golden Age of Islam?
This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the world's largest city by then, where Islamic scholars and polymaths from various parts of the world with different cultural backgrounds .
3)How did the Abbasids dynasty decline?
The 'Abbasid caliphate in the fourth/tenth century suffered from a sharp economic decline. This was the result of several factors, mainly civil wars, the Zanj and Qarmatian revolts, political interference by the Turkish and Daylamite soldiers, military iqt\a>' and the activity of the 'ayya>ru>n.
4)What did people in the west learn from going in the Crusades?
Ultimately the Crusades failed to create the Holy Land that was part of Christendom, but in the process they changed the western world forever.