Mamluks

The Mamluks

 * The Abassid caliphate needed a larger army to control their vast territories
 * The Abassids distrusted their current army
 * created a large Turkish slave army called the Mamluks
 * The Mamluks became more powerful that they in a way controlled the Caliphate
 * Doing this they created their own empire
 * From then on they were known as the Seljuks