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Period: 200 to 600
Germanic invasions
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Period: 400 to 500
The Ostrogoths and the Italian Peninsula
Ostrogoths arrived on the Italian Peninsula in the 400 A.d. and they were expelled by the Byzantine empire in the 500 A.d. -
476
Fall of Roman Empire
Fall of Rome, end of the Western Roman Empire and mass migration. -
Period: 500 to 999
other invasions
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507
Battle of Vouillé
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610
Islam
Mahoma was the main prophet in Islam and it was created in the Arabian Peninsula. -
Period: 632 to 661
The Orthodox caliphate
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. -
Period: 661 to 750
The Umayyad Caliphate
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. -
Period: 750 to 1259
The abbasid caliphate
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. -
1054
The great Schism
Division of the church (Catholics and Orthodox) -
1453
Conquest of Constantinople
