Unit 3-A APWH Timeline - Maggie Weber

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  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to

    C.E THESIS: The cultural rise, spread, and fall of Islam changed through different countries, like Asia and Africa, and different empires, like the Byzantine and Umayyads however it countinued to have converts and challenge the beliefs of people.

    The cultural rise, spread, and fall of Islam changed through different countries, like Asia and Africa, and different empires, like the Byzantine and Umayyads however it countinued to have converts and challenge the beliefs of people.
  • Jan 1, 610

    C.E Muhammad Revelations

    Muhammad received his first of many revelations that he believed to be Allah transmitted through the angel Gabriel. These revelations were later written in Arabic and collected in the Qur'an. These teachings continued to be the foundation for the new religion, called Islam
  • Oct 26, 625

    C.E Mecca and Medina Attacks

    Muhammads Islamic successes, like the stregthening of Medina and the raids on Meccan caravans made him a threat to the Umayyad notables who had a different religion. To end these threats, Quraysh launched a series of attacks on Muhammad and his followers in Medina that led to a series of battles that changed many beliefs.
  • Aug 17, 632

    C.E Death of Muhammad

    Muhammad died and deciding who the caliph would be was almost a fatal split among the Islamic community. The spread of Islam was continuous through the political and religious successors, the caliphs, of Muhammad.
  • Mar 14, 633

    C.E Islamic Control

    Arabia had been under Islamic control and now Muslim leaders took expeditions beyond the peninsula to Meopotamia, North Africa, and Persia. These conquests built an empire that would continuously hold power for the next two decades of Islam.
  • Jul 11, 650

    C.E Islam in South Asia

    Muslim influence went through South Asia, resulting indirectly from trading contacts. The spread of Islam through South Asia is one of the least converted and integrated areas that Muhammad's message reached. However, Islam changed the religious views for different people in Asia.
  • Jul 29, 651

    C.E Byzantine Empire

    The last of the Sasanian rulers were murdered by Muslim warriors and the detruction of the empire was ensured. The Byzantine Empire then battled against the Arabs for control of the Muslims and proved victorious. However, the power would change in less than a decade.
  • Apr 15, 656

    C.E Sunnis and Shi'as

    The death of the third caliph, Uthman, led to the Sunni-Shi'a split. The Sunnis backed the Umayyeds as the caliph and Shi'as backed Ali. Then Ali was murdered and the Umayyads held the Islamic power. This control was continuos for decades.
  • Feb 24, 670

    C.E Islam in Africa

    Muslims ruled Ifriqiya, or Africa. They had swept across North Amfrica from Suez to the Atlantic shore in Morocco within three decades starting in 640C.E, but completly ruling in 670 C.E. These decades changed the spread of Islam
  • Oct 26, 711

    C.E Islam in India

    Islam spread through India and brought little change to the daily lives of local leaders. The towns and districts that willingly converted experienced less taxation and greater religious tolerance. This changed the way Muslims were treated in INdia compared to different religions.

  • C.E Muslim Empire

    The Abbasid dynasty was loosing control of the vast Muslim Empire that it gained from Umayyads a century earlier. The control of the Islamic faith in the Muslim community had changed many times.