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Abbasid Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate - Coggle Diagram
Abbasid Caliphate 
Social structure
Professionals like teachers, doctors, traders, and merchants made up the next social class
As long as people like Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians paid taxes and acknowledged Islamic political supremacy, were allowed to live in freedom.
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Capital
Baghdad
The center of Islamic political and cultural life migrated from Syria to Iraq, where Baghdad, the elongated City of Peace, was established as the new capital in 762.
Administration
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Under the Abbasids, the caliph developed into an autocrat who based his power on a paid bureaucracy and claimed a divine foundation for it.
Political structure
Business, industry, and agriculture all prospered and became very wealthy
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Currency included the gold dinar, silver dirham, and copper fals
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