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How Did The Umayyads Build Central Asia

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The Umayyads are still in control and they have begun to conquer new lands. Because of the Umayyads, the Muslim Empire expanded and they ended up taking control over much of Central Asia. The Umayyads controlled in North Africa from the Nile River to the Atlantic Ocean. They then moved northward across the Mediterranean Sea which is where they took control over nearly the entire Iberian Peninsula. The Umayyads ended up controlling lots of land with lots of people so they needed to start uniting and governing people. The Umayyads patterned on a bureaucracy that they picked up from the Byzantine Empire. Umayyad caliphs ruled the empire through this bureaucracy and they appointed to Muslim governors called emirs to rule different provinces of
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