Chapter 11 Section 3

Seljuk Vizier Malik Shah

Abbasids lose power• Spain• Morocco• Tunisia

945 Persian armies move into Baghdad

Put and end to the caliph• Gave up political

power

1300 BC Chinese records of Tu-Kiu

Turks were nomads and herders

Abbasids bought Turkish children to train as soldiers

Mamelukes One obedient slave

is better than 300 sons

10 century convert to Islam

Seljuks capture Baghdad in 1055

20 years later attack Byzantine Empire

Seljuks occupy Anatolia

Close to Constantinople

Courted support of Persian leaders

Isfahan- capitol of Seljuk kingdom

Vizier- prime minister

Malik Shah- most important Seljuk sultan

Seljuks were illiterate

Persia• Supports their

learning of Islam• Adopted Persian

language• Rulers called shah• Appointed Persians

to government offices

Seljuk shahs Malik beautified

Isfahan Built mosques Arabic language

almost disappeared

Malik Shah last strong leader, died 1092

West launches attack on Turks and Muslims for the Holy Land

The Crusades- series of military campaigns

Pope Urban II launched them

Christians to drive Turks out of Anatolia

Recover Jerusalem 1099

Massacred Jews and Muslims

Muslims recover Jerusalem 1187

King Richard and Saladin sign a truce

Jerusalem is Muslim Western pilgrims

have access to Christian holy places

13 century Western powers became weaker

1200 unified under Genghis Khan

Slaughtered whole populations

1258 Genghis’s grandson leads troops to Baghdad

Wassaf write of the invasion

Burned the Caliph’s house

Killed tens of thousands

Abbasid caliph trampled by horses wrapped in a carpet

Shaped the biggest land empire in history

Crumpled in a few generations