Group 1

Who were the Abbasids?

http://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/baghdad-c900

Group 2
What was the round city?

http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/baghdad.htm#.VFaMrxEqWUk

Group 3
Which achievements did scholars make during the “Golden Age”?

http://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/baghdad-c900

Group 4
What rivers does Baghdad sit on? Why are they
important?

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/595616/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system

Group 5
Is Baghdad still important? Why (why not)?

Baghdad was built as a circle so it is known as the round city . Baghdad ISN'T as important as it used to be because it doesn't really invent anything any more and there is a lot of war there today .

the borders are Syria,Iran,Saudi Arabia,Jordan,Turkey,kuwait.

WHO WERE THE ABBASIDS?

The Abbasid Caliphate established their capital in the city of Baghdad in 762CE.

Over the next five centuries Islamic culture flourished and Baghdad became renowned as a centre of learning and tolerance.

Scholarship was encouraged and scientists, doctors, philosophers and engineers made significant advances in their fields. Art and architecture combined to produce beautiful mosques and palaces.

This period is known as the golden age of islam

WHAT WAS THE ROUND CITY?

Baghdad was built by the Abbasid family in 762AD. They built Baghdad as they wanted to have a powerful new Capital away from the supporters of the Umayyad family who had ruled the Muslims for a long time. 
The City was built as a circle and is known as the round ciTY

WHAT RIVERS DOES BAGHDAD SIT ON ?WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT?

Tigris-Euphrates river system, great river system of Southwest Asia, comprising the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which have their sources within 50 miles (80 km) of each other in eastern Turkey and travel southeast through northern Syria and Iraq to the head of the Persian Gulf. The lower portion of the region that they define, known as Mesopotamia (Greek: “Land Between the Rivers”), was one of the cradles of civilization. The total length of the Euphrates(Sumerian: Buranun; Akkadian: Purattu; biblical: Perath; Arabic: Al-Furāt; Turkish: Fırat) is about 1,740 miles (2,800 km). The Tigris (Sumerian: Idigna; Akkadian: Idiklat; biblical: Hiddekel; Arabic: Dijlah; Turkish: Dicle) is about 1,180 miles (1,900 km) in length.

It borders syria, Saudi arabia , Iran , Turkey , Jordan, Kuwait

Baghdad is the capital of Iraq

Tigris - Euphrates river system runs through Baghdad .

Baghdad was built by the Abbasid family in 762AD

The Abbasid caliphate established their capital in the city of Baghdad in 762CE

there are wars going on in countries such as Syria,pakistan,turkey,saudia Arabia and iran !!!!!!!1

They concerned

Baghdad is the capital city of Iraq.

Iraq is a country where there is a lot of war.

Why was Baghdad important?

The Abbasid Caliphate established their capital in the city of Baghdad in 762CE.

Over the next five centuries Islamic culture flourished and Baghdad became renowned as a centre of learning and tolerance.

Scholarship was encouraged and scientists, doctors, philosophers and engineers made significant advances in their fields. Art and architecture combined to produce beautiful mosques and palaces

Physical features

General considerations

Having risen in close proximity, the Tigris and Euphrates diverge sharply in their upper courses, to a maximum distance of some 250 miles (400 km) apart near the Turkish-Syrian border. Their middle courses gradually approach each other, bounding a triangle of mainly barren limestone desert known as Al-Jazīrah (Arabic: “The Island”). There the rivers have cut deep and permanent beds in the rock, so that their courses have undergone only minor changes since prehistoric times. Along the northeastern edge of Al-Jazīrah, the Tigris drains the rain-fed heart of ancient Assyria, while along the southwestern limit the Euphrates crosses true desert.

On the alluvial plain, south of Sāmarrāʾ and Al-Ramādī, both rivers have undergone major shifts throughout the millennia, some as a consequence of human intervention. The 7,000 years of irrigation farming on the alluvium have created a complex landscape of natural levees, fossil meanders, abandoned canal systems, and thousands of ancient settlement sites. The location of tells—raised mounds under which are found the ruins of towns and cities of ancient Babylonia and Sumer—often bears no relation to modern watercourses. In the vicinity of Al-Fallūjah and the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the distance separating the rivers is some 30 miles (50 km), so small that, prior to its damming, floodwaters from the Euphrates often reached the capital on the Tigris. During the Sāsānian period (3rd century ce), an elaborate feat of engineering linked the two rivers along this narrow neck by five navigable canals (the Īsā, Ṣarṣar, Malik, Kūthā, and Shaṭṭ al-Nīl canals), allowing Euphrates water to empty into the Tigris.

South of Baghdad the rivers exhibit strongly contrasting characteristics. The Tigris, especially after its confluence with the silt-laden Diyālā, carries a greater volume than the Euphrates; cuts into the alluvium; forms tortuous meanders; and, even in modern times, has been subject to great floods and consequent natural levee building. Only below Al-Kūt does the Tigris ride high enough over the plain to permit tapping for flow irrigation. The Euphrates, by contrast, builds its bed at a level considerably above the alluvial plain and has been used throughout history as the main source of Mesopotamian irrigation.

The Gharrāf River, now a branch of the Tigris but in ancient times the main bed of that river, joins the Euphrates below Al-Nāṣiriyyah. In the southern alluvial plain, both rivers flow through marshes, and the Euphrates flows through Lake Al-Ḥammār, an open stretch of water. Finally, the Euphrates and Tigris join and flow as the Shatt al-Arab to the Persian Gulf.