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Period: Jan 1, 622 to
Expansion of Islam
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Jan 1, 632
Muhhamed dies
Muhhamed dies of natural causes, Islam starts to take off. -
Jan 1, 636
Battle of Yarmouk
Islamic empire captures Syria. -
Nov 11, 711
Islamic empire is starting to reach its height
Empire stretches all the way from the Arab area to the atlantic ocean -
Jan 1, 751
Umayyads gone
Umayyads destroyed after riot in 751 due to civil unrest. -
Jan 1, 1171
Eygpt Saladin
Nominal ʿAbbāsid authority was restored to Egypt by Saladin. -
Sep 14, 1258
MONGOLS!!!
Mongols completely deystroy the city of Baghad. -
ISIS
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. -
9/11
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 -
Modern Islam
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. -
Abbasid
Abbāsid power ends when a family of tribesman destroys them.
