Umayyads and Abbasids - Read by Monday

Please read the following articles and take appropriate notes:

Umayyads: http://history-world.org/islam11.htm
*Scroll down to the section titled "Umayyad Imperium" and read the final 4 sections
*Pay attention to the treatment of the "dhimmi" in the Umayyad Empire, Gender Relations, and reasons that to the fall of the Umayyads

Abbasids: http://history-world.org/islam12.htm
*Read this full article
*Pay attention to the statement: "From Arab To Islamic Empire: The Early Abbasid Era" and what this means, the shift of the capital to Baghdad, treatment of the Mawali, A Thousand and One Nights, Commercial Growth