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527-65: Justinian reigns as greatest Byzantine emperor, & builds Hagia Sofia, greatest Christian church in the world for nearly 1000 years
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Death of King Aurthur of the britons, at the Battel of Camlan.
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War between Persia and the Byzantine Empire.
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Justinian reconquers part of the Visigoth kingdom in Spain.
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Muhammad was born in the year 570 in the town of Mecca
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Muhammad life's time line
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Muhammad was five year old when his mother take him to town few hundred miles north to Mecca. On return journy his mother died and nurse take Muhammad back to Mecca and live with is uncle.
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500's - 900's: The Byzantine Emperor invites Central Asian Turks into Anatolia to serve as mercenaries
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Mecca's new materialism and its traditional idolatry disturbed Muhammad. He began making long retreats to a mountain cave outside town.
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The conquests of the Persians and Arabs cost the empire its territories in the Middle East,North Africa,Spain and Sicily.
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After several similar experiences, Muhammad finally began to reveal the messages he was receiving to his tribe. These were gathered verse by verse and later would become the Qur'an, Islam's sacred scripture.
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Muhammad and his few hundred followers left Mecca and traveled to Yathrib, the oasis town where his father was buried.Yathrib soon became known as Medina, the City of the Prophet. Muhammad remained here for the next six years, building the first Muslim community and gradually gathering more and more people to his side.
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In March, 628, a treaty was signed between Muhammad’s tribe and Madina, which recognized the Muslims as a new force in Arabia and gave them freedom to move throughout Arabia.
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In January, 630, they marched on Mecca and were joined by tribe after tribe along the way. They entered Mecca without bloodshed.
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After the pilgrimage, he returned to Medina. Three months later on June 8, 632 he died there, after a brief illness. He is buried in the mosque in Medina.
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Muhammad's grandfather died in 578. That time Muhammad was about eight year old and grew up with his uncle Abu Talib.
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Muhammad worked as a shepherd to earn a living. In his teens he sometimes traveled with Abu Talib.
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When Muhammad was 20 year old he entered the service of a wealthy Meccan merchant, a widow named Khadija. Muhammad carried her goods to the north and returned with a profit.
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Khadija impressed by Muhammad's honesty and character, Khadija eventually proposed marriage. They were married in about 595. He was twenty-five. She was nearly forty.
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Justinian's most lasting achievement was to organize the Roman legal system into the Code of Justinian.
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