New Civ Conept: The Umayyad Dynasty!
Hi folks! I've just brainstormed a civ idea of something akin to the Abbasids but takes the town center shenanigans to a whole new level. Introducing non-other than the historical antithesis of the Abbasids, the Ummayyad Dynasty.
This is the dynasty that stretched the Caliphate to its greatest extent, stretching from Spain to India, making it one of the largest medieval empires in the world before they were overthrown by the Abbasid Revolution.
The civ might not be fully fleshed out with specific stats and balancing, but the core ideas are there.
The historical themes I wanted to cover were the following:
- Their establishment of Islamic Beureucracy through specialized beureus (Diwans)
- Their governance over large swathes of people's (Dhimmis)
- Their Qadis that combined islamic jurisprudence and administrators
- The Translation movement that sought to gain knowledge from foreign texts (Greek, Latin, Indian, etc)
- Their eventually evolution into both Al-Andalus and the Abbasids.
As detailed in the diagram above.
What do you guys think?