What Was the Result of the Assassination of the Fourth

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Multiple Choice

What was the result of the assassination of the Fourth Caliph?

• A)the formation of the Abbasid Dynasty
• B)a civil war that lasted for one hundred years
• C)the establishment of a system for selecting caliphs that pleased both groups
• D)the establishment of the Umayyad Dynasty
• E)the capital city of Islam being moved back to Mecca from Medina

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