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Muhhamed dies of natural causes, Islam starts to take off.
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Islamic empire captures Syria.
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Empire stretches all the way from the Arab area to the atlantic ocean
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Umayyads destroyed after riot in 751 due to civil unrest.
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Nominal ʿAbbāsid authority was restored to Egypt by Saladin.
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Mongols completely deystroy the city of Baghad.
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An insurgency/terrorist group called ISIS starts taking over land in the middle east. They are still very active today, wanting to get rid of all western influence in the middle east.
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Al-Queda leader Osama bin Laden orchastrates 4 major attacks on the United States. This marks the start of the insurgency era of parts of Islam and the divide between Shites and Sunnis. Islam becomes a discrimanated religion
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Islam has almost 1.3 billion followers and is the second largest religion in the world. It has grown in a period of 1400 years from no followers to a fith of the world following it.
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Abbāsid power ends when a family of tribesman destroys them.
