One of this dynasty's rulers built a desert castle with a famous fresco showing a curiously Chinese king, as well as the Spanish Roderick and four others, at Qasr Amra. Another ruler of this empire was embarrassed when a female seer named Dihya led a berber rebellion and ended the practice of iconography in coinage, instituting a standard minting system that precipitated a conflict that this dynasty won when 20,000 of the appropriately-named Neboulos's slavs defected from Leontios's forces at the Battle of Sebastopolis. A less successful son of that ruler sacked Balanjar after breaking through the Gate of the Alans, but earlier had a pivotal siege broken by the Bulgarian Tervel. This dynasty fought against (*) Justinian II and Leo III the Isaurian as part of the Byzantine-Arab wars, and ended after a disastrous cavalry charge was ordered into Abu Muslim's spear wall at the Battle of the Zab River by Marwan II. Walid I's rule of this dyn
One of this dynasty's rulers built a desert castle with a famous fresco showing a curiously Chinese king, as well as the Spanish Roderick and four others, at Qasr Amra. Another ruler of this empire was embarrassed when a female seer named Dihya led a berber rebellion and ended the practice of iconography in coinage, instituting a standard minting system that precipitated a conflict that this dynasty won when 20,000 of the appropriately-named Neboulos's slavs defected from Leontios's forces at the Battle of Sebastopolis. A less successful son of that ruler sacked Balanjar after breaking through the Gate of the Alans, but earlier had a pivotal siege broken by the Bulgarian Tervel. This dynasty fought against (*) Justinian II and Leo III the Isaurian as part of the Byzantine-Arab wars, and ended after a disastrous cavalry charge was ordered into Abu Muslim's spear wall at the Battle of the Zab River by Marwan II. Walid I's rule of this dynasty marked a move toward toleration for the followers of Ali, a century after its forces had slain Hussayn at the Battle of Karbala. Ruled by Abd al-Malik and founded by Muawiya, FTP, identify this Sunni state based out of Damascus, a Muslim Caliphate succeeded by the Abbasids.
One of this dynasty's rulers built a desert castle with a famous fresco showing a curiously Chinese king, as well as the Spanish Roderick and four others, at Qasr Amra.
{Umayyad} Caliphate or Banu {Umayyah}