1. 1055 B.C.
• Malik Shah came to power
• Considered one of the greatest Seljuks
• Built his best mosque
2. 10th Century (1055-1081)B.C.
• The turks (seljuks) migrated to the weak
Abbasid empire
• Seljulks grew and attacked Baghdad from
the Persians (1055)
• The Turks crushed the Byzantine
Defenders (1071)
• Turks occupied most of Anatolia (1081)
3. 1092-1187 B.C.
• The Turks gain Persian support
• Malik Shah dies
• 1095 Pope Urban the second launched
the first crusade
• 1099 crusaders captured Jerusalem and
killed Jewish and Muslim citizens
• 1187 seljuks take back Jerusalem
4. 1300 B.C.
Chinese records begin to mention them
The Abbasids took note of their military skills
and begin to but turkish kids to raise them
as slaves, train as soldiers, and employ as
body guards
