Using Map 9

question 25

Essay

Using Map 9.2, locate Bukhara and the region of the Samanid dynasty. Why was their challenge to the Arab cultural world so dramatic? What did "Persia" mean in this time period?

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Definitions:

Alcohol Abuse

A pattern of drinking that results in harm to one's health, interpersonal relationships, or ability to work, including situations of excessive consumption and dependency.

Attempt Suicide

The act of intentionally trying to end one's own life.

Identical Twins

Twins that are genetically identical, resulting from the splitting of a single fertilized egg.

Adoptive Mom

A woman who has become a parent through the legal process of adoption, establishing a parent-child relationship with a child to whom she is not biologically related.