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Ostrogoths arrived on the Italian Peninsula in the 400 A.d. and they were expelled by the Byzantine empire in the 500 A.d.
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Fall of Rome, end of the Western Roman Empire and mass migration. -
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Mahoma was the main prophet in Islam and it was created in the Arabian Peninsula.
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The caliph ruled the muslim empire from Medina. They defeated the Byzantine and Neo-Persian Empire. They spread Islam to Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Persia.
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After the fourth caliph died, Umayyad dynasty ruled. They moved to Damascus and divided their lands into into emirates. They conquered India, Samarkand and the Iberian Peninsula.
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After the death of the Umayyads, the Abbasid dynasty ruled. They controlled all the regions except al-Andalus, which the remaining Umayyad ruler governed. The abassid dynasty moved the capital to Baghdad and this period was the height of the muslim empire.
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Division of the church (Catholics and Orthodox) -
