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Period: 570 to Mar 6, 632
Muhammad's Life
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Period: Mar 6, 632 to Mar 6, 661
Rightly Guided Caliphs
Abu Bakr: 632-634
Umar: 634-644
Uthman: 644-656
Ali: 656-661 -
Period: Mar 6, 661 to Mar 6, 750
Umayyad Dynasty
Expanded the empire: Syria, North Africa, Spain
Moved the capital from Mecca to Damascus -
Mar 6, 732
Islamic State becomes a great empire
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Period: Mar 6, 750 to Mar 6, 1258
Abbasid Dynasty
Abu al-Abbas first Abbasid caliph
devoted their energy to trade, scholarship, and the arts
Moved the capital to Baghdad
Loved the art and literature of Persia -
Period: Mar 6, 1055 to Mar 8, 1258
Seljuk Turks
Abbasids hired them as soldiers, Seljuks turned on their employers
Took over modern day Iran and Turkey
Took over Baghdad in 1055
ruled government and the military
Abbasids were the caliphs -
Period: Mar 6, 1200 to
Ottoman Empire
Suleyman I: weakened the empire by eliminating his male heirs
Suleyman I focused on architecture
Christian families in Eastern Europe ahs to send their sons to Istanbul
Collpased at the en of WWI -
Mar 6, 1258
Mongols sack Baghdad
Fall of the Abbasid, Seljuk, and Arab Empires -
Period: Mar 6, 1300 to Mar 6, 1400
Timbuktu becomes center of Muslim learning
Sufis: group who wanted to spread Islam through praying and teaching -
Mar 6, 1453
End of the Byzantine Empire
Constantinople falls; Mehmed II sacks the city and renames it Istanbul -
Period: Mar 6, 1500 to
Mogul Empire
Began in India
Babur took control using cannons, gunpowder, elephants, horses, his grandson Akbar is the best leader, cultivated cultural diversity -
Mar 6, 1526
Moguls make Delhi their capital