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This is the first known reference to the Arabs as a distinct group. But nomads from Arabia started spreading through the fringes of the fertile crescent since 3000 BC.
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Persia falls to the Arabs as a consequence of the battle of Kadisiya. After their victory the Arabs sack the city of Ctesiphon in Persia.
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The Arab people conquered Jerusalem to make the spread of Muslim more known. Since Jerusalem was a mainly Christian city.
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Muhammad believed to be a prophet sent from god.
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The Arabic armies conquer the cities of Palestine and Syria because they were christian and the Arabic people were Muslim.
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The Arabs began to attempt to siege Constantinople. They made many attempts but all failed due to the massive difference in technology. The Constantinople people used Greek Fire to keep the Arabs at bay.
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The short journey across the water from Africa, bringing an army into Spain in 711, begins the final thrust of Arab expansionism in the west. In a frequently repeated pattern of history the invaders, invited to assist one side in a quarrel, rapidly take control and suppress both squabbling parties. Within a few months the Arabs drive the Visigoths from their capital at Toledo.
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Their were two main beliefs in Arabia: Arab and Muslim. These tensions led to a split and rebellion over faith. The result of this rebellion was that the faith
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After the revolt/rebellion they needed new states. So they created a new system for the Caliphates that were ruled by more than one Caliphs. Caliphate are Islamic States that are led by Caliphs.
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Since the Arabs have been growing extremely large and controlling many parts of Central Asia at the time it was inevitable that a battle would occur of the borders of each Civilization.
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The Arabs wanted still to show their dominance to the extreme Chinese power. So they went and burned and loots the city of Canton on their Silk Road.
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Baghdad is turned into the new capital city of their empire.
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Avicenna, born near Bukhara in980, has Persian as his native language but he writes mostly in Arabic. He is known in particular for two great encyclopedic compilations, one for philosophy and the other of medicine.
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He becomes leading physicians as well as philosophers. But unlike Maimonides he has his religion effected his career.
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He becomes leading physicians as well as philosophers. But unlike Averroës he doesn't have his religion effect his career.
