The decline of the Umayyad dynasty was due to
a. converts to Islam numbered no more than 10 percent.
b. growing unrest among non-Arab Muslims, who demanded access to political power.
c. a peasant revolt over increases in taxes and decreases in wages.
d. the arrival of a Jewish messiah.
e. a and b above.
ANSWER:
b
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