The Kingdom of Ghana became powerful by taxing gold merchants who passed through its lands. In contrast, the Umayyad Empire extended its power through campaigns of conquest by Islamic armies.
Kingdom is the geographical boundaries where a King reigns while an Empire is reign over many regions or other kingdoms brought under reign outside the kingdom by an Emperor.
both states actively promoted the development and spread of islam
Damascus was the capital of Umayyad empire.
kingdom= a country,state, or territory ruled by a king or queen, one country ruled by a king, inside an empire empire= several countries ruled by 1 emperor, large group of countries under 1 ruler hope that answers ur question :)
To construct and decorate the mosque, Walid employed the best craftsmen from Constantinople (now Istanbul) and from the Umayyad Empire.
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their empire spanned parts of three contintents-Asia,Africa and Europe.
The Umayyad Empire ruled its largest extent for only one year, 750 C.E. It was then deposed by the Abbassids, whose empire immediately shrank (due to the loss of Spain to the Umayyad remnant).
a city state does not have an emperor the difference between a city-state and an empire is that a city-state does not have an emperor
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.
Only Muslim Arabs were first-class citizens of this great empire.
The Mauryan Empire was larger than the Gupta Empire.