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570
Muhammad was born
Muhammad was born in Mecca to a noble family. -
Period: 570 to Jan 1, 661
Muhammads Journey
The life that Muhammad lived and what happened after his death. -
Jan 1, 610
Becoming a prophet
At the age of 4o Muhammd goes to a cave for a retreat and is visted by an angel. The angel tells Muhammad he is the Prophet and messager of God. After that Muhammad goes to spread the word of God to his followers. -
Jan 1, 630
Start of the Ka'aba
In 630 Muhammad makes a symbolic visit to the Ka'aba. There he declared it as a sacred shrine of Islam and he ordered the destruction of the idols of the traditional faith. -
Jan 1, 633
Muhammad dies
Muhamad dies from an illness in 633. He dies right as Islam was beginning to spread throughout the peninsula. The teachings of Muhammad were spread and the words of Muhammad were taught. -
Period: Jan 1, 633 to Jan 1, 661
5 Caliphs
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Jan 1, 634
Caliphs
Muhammad dies from an illness. After his death a problem arose about who would be the next successor. After long disputes, Muhammads unlce and close advisor, Abu Bakr, is appointed as caliph or seccessor. Umar becomes the second caliph after Abu Bakrs death in 634, but he is assassinated. The third caliph is Uthman in 644. Uthman is assassinated by dissenting Muslims and succeeded by ‘Ali, 'Ali is assassinated by Muslims, and Mu'awiyah seizes power, ending the Rashidun Caliphate. -
Jan 1, 634
Roles of the Caliphs
Under the power of Abu, the movement succeeded in supressing factional tendencies among some of the Bedouin tribes. Mu'awiya made the caliphate hereitary in his own family, called the Umayyads. -
Period: Jan 1, 661 to Jan 1, 750
Umayyads
Trade and Muslim culture spread though out this time. -
Jan 1, 710
Arab forces
Mu'awiya becomes first Umayyad Khalifa. Arab forces crossed the strait of Gibraltar and occupied southern Spain. -
Jan 1, 717
The Byzantine Empire
Muslim force attacked Constantinople hoping to destroy the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines destroyed the Muslim fleet, saving the empire. Now the Byzantine Empire and Islam now established an uneasy frontier in southern Asia Minor. -
Jan 1, 750
The Shi'ites and revolts
Revolts began to start because of resentment. Ali's second son, Hussein, led a revlot along with his supporters or Shi'ites against Umayyad rule in 680. Finally, in 750 Abu al-Abbas led a revolt that led to the overthrow of the Umayyads and the development of the Abbasid dynasty. -
Period: Jan 1, 751 to Jan 1, 1055
The Abbasids
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Jan 1, 762
A new capital
The new Abbasid caliphs brought great cultural change to Islam. They wanted the difference between Arab and non-Arab Muslims to be seen. In 762, the Abbasids built a new capital city at Baghdad. They wanted the new capital to take advantage of river traffic. -
Jan 1, 1055
Seljuk Turks
The Seljuk Turks were a nomadic people from Central Asia, who converted to Islam. In 1055, a Turkish leader captured Baghdad and took control of the empiren as sultan. In 1071 the Byzantines challenged the Turks. The Byzantine Empire turned to the west for help, which led to the Crusades. -
Period: Jan 1, 1099 to Jan 1, 1258
The Crusades
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Jan 1, 1258
The Impact of the Crusades
Christian incursions brought the Holy Land to the Sinai. In 1099, the armies of the First Crusade succeeded in capturing Jerusalem. In 1187 Saladin's army invaded Jerusalem, destroying Christian forces there. The Christians returned after the fall of Jerusalem.Their impact on the Mongols was important. -
Work Cited
-Duiker, William J., and Jackson J. Spielvogel. The Essential World History. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005. Print.
-PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 03 Apr. 2014.
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3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam
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5 http://www.islamicnet.com/islamic-pictures.htm
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Abbasid Rule
The Abbasids experienced a period of great rule in the ninth century. They went through a "golden age". Baghdad became the center commercial market. Caliphs became more of a hereditary autocrat. Then the rule started to go downhill. There was a shortage of army memebers, new dynasties were starting, ect.
