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Period: 632 to 661
ORTHODOX CALIPHS
The first caliphs were menbers of Muhammads family -
Period: 632 to 1400
THE EVOLUTION OF THE MUSLIM EMPIRE
Muhammad founded the Muslim religión, or islam, in Arabia. His succesors crated an extensive empire whith stretched from the Iberian Peninsula to India -
636
ORTODOX CALIPHS
They controlled the Arabian Peninsula
They defeacted the byzantine Empire
They subdued the Neo-Persian Empire -
Period: 661 to 750
UMAYYAD CALIPHATE
After a civil war, the position of caliph passed to the Umayyad Dynasty -
732
THE UMAYYED CALIPHATE
Their territoruial expansión, India in the east, Samarkand in the North and the Iberian Peninsula in the west
Stopped by the Franks at the Battle of poitiers -
Period: 750 to 1258
THE ABBASID CALIPHATE
The 8th to the 10th was the Golden age
After that it went into decline -
1258
ABBASID CALIPHATE
The 8th-10th the Golden age of the caliphate
The 10th-11th the crisis for frecuent civil wars limited economic development -
Period: 1258 to 1400
THE LATER EXPANSION
Sailors and Muslin merchants spread Islam beyond the borders of the caliphate, following the trade routes
