Do you think this document is a reliable source for determining how the caliphates expanded in the 7th and 8th centuries? Why or why not?

No

Explanation:

The explanation of this document is inadequate and you need to know things in much more detail

answer: both considered peasants valued members of society.

explanation: the ancient chinese and indian empires were large asian empires that had the same problems with other big empires, they had to work hard and sometimes fight in order to keep them united, they both relied heavily on their capacity to trade and to send strange and rare items to europe, and had the father as the head of the house hold in both societies, but they didn´t considered pleasants as valued members of their society, they were the bottom of the social pyramid in both of their societies.

hi, according to my research the answer to the first question would be false. al tabari was the author of the first medical encyclopedia & he was a persian scholar not arab