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-The Abbasid Caliphate is very smart and created the Elephant Clock

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I learned that our postal service came from the Umayyad Caliphate.

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Why did the empire shrink from the Umayyad Caliphate to the Abbasid Caliphate?

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The Umayyad Caliphate focused on technological advancements that furthered the advancement of their civilization, and the Abbasid Caliphate focused on astrology.

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What did the Umayyad Caliphate use to make their coins and how did they make them?

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I learned that the Dome of the Rock was made during the Umayyad Caliphate

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The Umayyad Caliphate made important and influential advancements regarding architecture (the Dome of the Rock). The Abbasid Caliphate focused on the mathematical and logic side of things - with the Elephant clock and a Lunar Calendar. The goal of both of these Caliphates with their advancements was to help their society in one aspect or another - whether it be architectural, mathematical, etc.

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Both Caliphates based their knowledge on previous civilizations.

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I learned that the Abbasid Caliphate created the elephant clock using Chinese ideas

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The Abbasid caliphate creates more things at the moment such as inventions for astrology rather than the Ummayads who were more focused on creating things that would set them up better for the future

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Who used the elephant clock? Was it available to everyone or only certain individuals of higher class

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One of the things that I learned was that the Abbasid Caliphate developed the astrolabe further, which was a device created by the Greeks.

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I learned that the Umayyad people built the La Mezquita & Damascus and they created many hospitals.

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How did the postal service work without cars or planes to transport mail?

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Are any of the Umayyad's underground canals famous?

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Both the Abbasid and the Umayyad Caliphates built religious structures, and they also both used math in their daily lives. The Abbasid Caliphate made more scientific and mathematical advancements than the Umayyad Caliphate, which created a common coinage and a postal service.

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Both of these dynasties had a strong focus on having advanced architecture. Also, they both often used their knowledge of math and science to improve their daily lives. These dynasties were different in the way that the Umayyad developed systems that would improve daily life, whereas the Abbasid would create inventions. The Abassid created the windmill, the elephant clock, and the lunar calendar. The Umayyad created a coin system, a postal service, and canal systems.

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I learned that many different modern things were invented by these civilizations

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I still wonder what led them to come up with the ideas.

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The Umayyad Dynasty was what led up to the Golden Age and the Abbasid Dynasty was what happed during the golden age. They both created amazing inventions, but for different reasons.

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Why was it called an elephant clock?

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The Abbisid's focused a lot on time and the stars building many clocks, and the Umayyad's focused more on architecture and built many buildings.

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The Abbasids had very advanced ways of telling time.

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I learned that the Abbasid's invented many things to tell time

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Who invented all these different items?

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The Umayyad's focused on architecture and uniting its conquered areas. The Abbasid's focused on how to tell time and different ways to power things.

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That the abbasids created new ways to tell time, more accurately

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how long did it take them to make these advancements?

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The umayyad focused more on physical things like coins and under ground canals, whereas the Abbasids focused more on scientific ideas.

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I learned that they used Chinese ideas to create and build the elephant clock.

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I wonder how their location impacted their advancements.

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The Umayyad focused on more architectural advancements such as buildings where as the Abbasids focused more on the scientific part of these advancements.