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The umayyad were overthrown by the Abbasid
It was overthrown by the Abbasid
Abbasid Caliphate.
The Abbasid dynasty
Some of the lasting accomplishments of the Umayyad and Abbasid empires were religious freedom, lower taxes, and the geographical growth of the caliphate.
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The Abbasids moved their capital to Baghdad because they wanted to move it closer to Damascus during the time when Umayyad's capital was Damascus. In which means that the Abbasid empire wants to overthrow the Umayyad empire.
there were sunni and extremely anti shia and killed shia Imams.
Abbasids is the Muslim group overthrew the Umayyad dynasty and set up a new caliphate.
Non-Muslims actually had very minimal participation in the Umayyad and Abbassid Caliphates. Many former non-Muslims were asked to convert so that they could be part of the government. This was done because the Arabs had no experience in managing a bureaucracy and needed Persians and Byzantines who were skilled in running affairs of state. Jews were also believed to be good financiers and were allowed to join the financial ministries without converting.
The Abbassid Caliphate capital was moved to BAGHDAD, IRAQ, because Syria had an Umayyad power-base and Baghdad was much closer to Persia, which was the Abbassid power-base.
The Umayyad Caliphate was overthrown by the Abbasid Revolution in 750 AD. having lost much of their power during the Third Muslim Civil War (744-747 AD).