. Elicit how the Abbasids were instrumental in leading the Muslims during the golden age of Islam 2. What was the most important factor in the long term establishment of a Muslim Spain?
3. Write a short paragraph highlighting the importance of the city of Cordoba.

Which sociologist posits that, as a society modernizes, it must rely less on tradition, and more on rational, and impersonal procedures?

The tea party movement is a. an official third party that challenges both democrats and republicans in national elections. b. an organized challenge to incumbents in the republican party by the most conservative wing of the republican party. c. an organized challenge to incumbents in the democratic party by the most liberal wing of the democratic party. d. an offspring of the green party that runs for state and local office in many midwestern states. e. the now defunct party that gave way to the republican party at the end of the “second party system.”

He constitution dictates that the presiding officer of the senate is the a) majority whip. b) vice-president. c) majority leader. d) speaker of the house.