The Economic Base of the Abbasid Caliphate Lay In

question 15

Multiple Choice

The economic base of the Abbasid Caliphate lay in:

• A) the Tigris-Euphrates basin of Mesopotamia.
• B) the Nile Delta.
• C) Syria and Lebanon.
• D) Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey.
• E) its capital, Constantinople.

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