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1 CE
Crisis (300)
In the third century the Roman Empire suffered a crisis, which led to a wave of migrations across its borders. Many Germanic tribes attacked the Roman towns but other stablished peacefully in the Empire. -
Period: 2 to 3
Emperor Theodosius, Western Empire (395-476)
In 395 theodosius divided the Roman Empire in 2 halves, the Western and Eastern Roman Empire, but now I will talk about the Western. Its capital was Rome. The Empire couldn't resist the attacks from the Germanic tribes and fell in 476 but the Eastern Empire would last 1000 more years. The Western Empire territory broke up into smaller kingdoms between the 5 and 7 centuries. -
Period: 4 to 5
Byzantine Empire, Emperor Justinian (527-565)
The Eastern Empire became to be known as the Byzantine empire. Its capital was Constantinople. its greatest period was during the reign of Justinian when the empire conquered many territories. At the end the Byzantine empire did not have suffiecient resources to defend and the Turks conquered Constatinople in 1453. -
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Worship of religious images is banned (726)
In 726 the Byzantine emperor Leo III took a public stand against the perceived worship of icons, and in 730 their use was officially prohibited. This opened a persecution of icon venerators that was severe in the reign of Leo's successor. -
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Byzantine religion (1054)
The East-West Schism took place. This was a split between the Orthodox Church, which recongnised the Patriarch of Constantinople, and the Roman Catholic Church, which only accepted the authority of the Pope. -
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First conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders (1203)
The siege of Constantinople in 1203 was a Crusader siege of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, in support of the deposed emperor Isaac II Angelos and his son Alexios IV Angelos. It marked the main outcome of the Fourth Crusade. -
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Turks conquer Constantinople (29/5/1453)
Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire. The dwindling Byzantine Empire came to an end when the Ottomans breached Constantinople’s ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days. -
Period: 10 to 11
Muhammad (570-632)
Muhammad was the founder of Islam and the proclaimer of the Koran, Islam's sacred scripture. He spent his entire life in what is now the country of Saudi Arabia, from his birth about 570 CE in Mecca to his death in 632 in Medina. -
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Hegira (622)
The wealthy merchants in Muhammad's home city of Mecca did not accept his teachings, so in 622, he fled to Medina. This event, the Hegira, marks teh beginning of the Muslim calendar. -
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Ali assassinated (661)
When Muhammad died on 8 June 632, his companions and followers decided that someone needed to succeed him as their spiritual, political, and military leader. Muhammad had no male heir, so the community looked to someone who had been in his inner circle. -
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Abu al-Abbas's rebellion (750)
The Abbasid Revolution, also called the Men in Black Clothes Movement, refers to the overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate, the second of the four main caliphates in early Islamic history, by the third caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate. -
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Caliphat of Córdoba (929)
The Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba or Caliphate of the West was an Andalusian Muslim state with its capital in Córdoba, proclaimed by Abderramán III in 929. -
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Conquest of Baghdad (1258)
The Siege of Baghdad was a siege that took place in Baghdad in 1258, lasting for 13 days from January 29, 1258 until February 10, 1258. The siege, laid by Ilkhanate Mongol forces and allied troops, involved the investment, capture, and sack of Baghdad, which was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate at that time.