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World’s Slowest Lawnmower

Centuries of Turmoil

The Middle East from around 700AD to around 1700

What we’re going to learn:

Identify the various groups who controlled parts of the Middle East from about 700 to about 17ooAD

Explain what the Crusades were and the effect they had on the Middle East

Islam and the Byzantine Empire

Islamic Caliphate A caliph is a supreme political and religious

leader in Islam; after Muhammad died, these leaders ruled the Islamic empire and later smaller kingdoms until the 20th century There were four of these ruling dynasties

between 632 (Muhammad's death) and about 1100 when the Crusades began▪ Rashidun (632-661)▪ Umayyad (661-750)▪ Abbasids (700s – 1200s) – empire breaks up into

smaller kingdoms▪ Fatimids (900s-1100s) – north Africa mainly

Expansion of Islam

The Abbasid Caliphate – 700’s to 1100’s – political power lessened…

The Seljuk Turks 1037-1194 – assumed more control over M.East

The Crusades

The Crusades – Crash Course

Saladin’s Empire

The Ottoman Empire – 1300s-1900s

The Safavid Empire – “Iran”, 1500 - 1750

Ottoman and Safavid empires around 1600

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FrontPage: Why is 26.2 called “centuries of turmoil”?

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Empires of the Middle East