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Title: Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Persia. The capital of the caliphate was then transferredfrom Medina to Damascus, which occupied a far better positionfor governing the new realms. Although the Mohammedanswere constantly fighting among themselves, they succeeded inextending their territory so as to include Asia Minor and thenorthern coast of Africa. A great part of the people whomthey conquered accepted the new religion of the prophet. Something over a hundred years after Mohammeds death anew line of caliphs came into power and established (762) anew capital on the river Tigris near the site of ancient Babylon.This new city of Bagdad became famous for its wealth, magnifi-cence, and learning. It was five miles across and at one timeis supposed to have had two millions of inhabitants. In the 1 The colored plate (opp. p. 68) shows the minarets of a great mosque in Cairo.One can also see the gratings of the upper stories of the houses, through whichthe women can look out of their harem without being seen from the street.
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7i 72 Medieval and Modern Times The ArabianNights Enter-tainments Moham-medansattempt toinvadeEurope The Arabsin Spain Arabs in-vade Gaul ninth century it was probably the richest and most splendidcity in the world. The most entertaining example of Arabic literature whichhas been translated into English is the Thousand and OneNights^ or The Arabian NigJits- Entertainments> as it is com-monly called. These include the story of Sindbad the Sailor, Aladdin and the Lamp, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,and other famous tales. The great collection was got together inEgypt, perhaps in the fifteenth century, but many of the storiesare very much older and were translated by the Arabs from thePersian, when the caliphs of Bagdad were at the height of theirpower. Some of these stories give onea lively idea of Moham-medan manners and customs. The Mohammedans made two or three attempts to crossover from Asia into Europe and take Constantinople, the capitalof the Eastern Empire, but failed. It wa

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