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Mohammed was orphaned at a young age and was raied by his grandparents. He was born to a poor merchant in Mecca.
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Muhammad was told by an angel by the name of Gbariel, that he was a prophet that was sent to Earth by God.
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Muhammad started preaching his ideas in Mecca. Some of the people were attracted to Islam. Others, feared that Muhammad's growing popularity and Mecca would lose its status as a holy city.
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The city of Medina, was known as "City of the Prophet," and in 622 was the first year of the Muslim calendar.
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Islam, a major religion emerged in Arabia. Arabs eventually spread Islam across a very large empire.
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Muhammad had returned with ten thousand troops. They then conquered the city and destroyed the God statues in Ka'aba. The only statue remaining was the statue for Allah.
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The people in Mecca converted to Islam.
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Muhammad dies but his legacy lives. The people of Islam continue to spread the Islamic belief.
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Muslims enter Egypt and rout the Byzantine army.
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Muslims spread to North Africa.
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Imam Ali is killed. The start of the Umayyad rule begins.
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The Arabs and their North American allies overran Spain at the beginning of the seven hundreds.
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In 711 they crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain and then into France.
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The Arabs took over the Indus Valley but went no farther.
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The Arabs pushed into France but were turned back at the battle of Tours.
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Discontented Muslims found a leader in Abu al-Abbas who captured Damascus in 750.
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Muslims, Turks and Afghans went into India.
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In 1095, Chritsian pilgrims going to Jerusalem urged Pope Urban II to start the First Crusade.
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Christians crusaders capture Jerusalem in 1099.
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The sultan of Ghur defeated Hindu armies across the northern plains.
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Islam continues to spread throughout Asia. Malaysian traders interact with Muslims who teach them about Islam.
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The start of the Muslim rule in northern India.
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First Ottoman state begins in Turkey.
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They expanded across the Asia Minor into southeast Europe.
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Tamberlane invaded India.
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Muhammad II succeeds in conquering Constantinople.
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Islam is a force throughout the world from West Africa all the way to Southeast Asia.
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Under the rule of Suleiman, the Ottoman empire had its golden age.
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Turkish and Mongol invaders went through the mountains of India.
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Suleiman armies besieged the Austrian city of Vienna and then sent fear into Western Europe.
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Akbar created a strong central government which gave him the name of Akbar the Great. Akbar was Babur's grandson.
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Shah Abbas made a centralized government and made a powerful military forced made after the Ottoman janizaries.
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Qajars won control of Iran.
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The Safavid's defeated armies and forced the lasy Safavid ruler to abdicate.
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The Arabs abandoned the siege of Constantinople.
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Ruler, caliph Harun al-Rashid who ruled from 786-806, helped Baghdad reach its peak. Harun was looked at as a symbol of splendor and wealth for centuries.
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Abbassid controlled the Arab empire.
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Muslims go into the area north of Arabia