an overconfident empire

The Abassids were a very powerful group of people, but even the best "fall off the wagon" sometimes. Right? Well, the Abbasids did "fall off the wagon", but not because of someone else. Through their own carelessness and recklessness, the Abbasid caliphs brought about their own downfall.

First and foremost, the government officials and caliphs grew fond of an easy living. The Abbasid rulers didn't take their responsibilities as seriously as they should have. Therefore, the empire began to decline. Nowadays, if a president starts to slack off, he usually gets back to work and doesn't slack off. That's probably why today's world is more efficient and maybe if they had more responsible rulers, the Abbasid empire could have lasted longer. The caliphs also did not help merchants trade. This led the merchants to being easy targets for robbers and bandits. As a result, merchants were not able to trade and caused a decline in the economy. Maybe if caliphs had taken more interest in what was happening to their trade, the economy would have been stronger. In today's economy, we had been declining, but because we have a good president, we are gradually growing again. Without the president's helpfulness and efforts to improve our economy, we would probably be entering the path the Abbasids did.

The Abbasids overestimated how long their empire would last and began to slack off. Because of all their power , they began to think that they were the best and nothing could make them go down. Even though they might not have known it, the Abbasids' carelessnes caused their empire to just fade into history.