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Caused a strain between the Muslim people. Abu spends years reuniting Muslim people and goes on successful military conquests. (helps lead to downfall and then spread)
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Sunnis and Shiites fight (split of religion). Sunnis believe the caliph does not have to be decedents of Muhammad. Start of the rise of the Umayyad Dynasty (helps lead to downfall)
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(helps lead to spread of Islamic empire)
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First battle lost in 100 years. :( (helps lead to downfall)
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Abbasids go through capital, defeats them, then invites ruling members of Umayyads to dinner and kills them all. (ends arab dominance over Islam, becomes religion for everyone). Baghdad gains power (helps with the downfall of Islamic empire)
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Outsiders come in and start to break apart Arab empire. (helps to the decline of Islamic empire)
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more powerful than Abbasids (helps with downfall)
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Turks take control (helps with downfall)
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Seljuk Turks (though converted), did not care about people of the book like the original Muslims did. (helps with downfall)
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People of the book can have pilgrimages again (helps with decline)
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(helps with spread)
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Mongol armies soon return. Terrifying and powerful. (helps with downfall)
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Fire kills almost everyone including Abbasid caliph (helps with downfall)
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Mongols keep overrunning Muslim territories (helps with downfall) (plague begins)
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Last of Muslims are kicked completely out of Europe (helps with downfall)
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basically a restart to Islam (helps with spread)
