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Muhammad was born in Mecca into a poor clan, he was orphaned at a young age, and was raised by his grandparents.
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He was told by the angel Gabriel that he was a prophet sent to earth by god. He began preaching a new monotheistic faith called Islam
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Muhammad began preaching his new ideas in Mecca. Many people liked it but others feared his growing popularity
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Muhammads journeys to Medina to preach his teachings and Islam begins to spread. This was also called the year of the Hijra.
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Muhammad returned to Mecca with 1,000 troops and conquerd the city.
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Muhammad dies but only after all people of Mecca are converted to Islamic.
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Persia was conquered along with Egypt.
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Rebels broke into Uthman's house and murdered him.
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Ali ibn Abi Talib was the fourth caliph and first Shii imam.
Muawiya then became caliph and founder of Umayyad dynasty. -
The berber tribes in North Africa were conquered,.
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Tariq ibn Ziyad leads the conquest of Andalusia in southern Spain.
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Byzantine forces crossed spain and were pushing into france, but they were defeated in the Battle of Tours.
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Discontented muslims found a leader in Abu al-Abbas, who captured Damascus
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Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade to conquer Jerusalem.
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Crusaders capture Jerusalem which endede the First Crusade.
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Death of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, he was a philosopher and theologian.
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Death of Jalal al-Din Rumi, he was a Sufi poet and teacher, in Konya.
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Constantinople falls to the Ottomans and becomes the new Ottoman capital. The Byzantine Empire ends.
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Caliph Omer went to Syria and Jerusalem and orded removal of debris and construction of mosque there.
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The building of the Great Mosque at Cordoba.
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The death of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, hadith scholar and eponym of the Hanbali Legal School.
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Death of Malik ibn Anas, he was the jurist of Medina and the eponym of the Maliki Legal School.
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Death of female mystic Rabia al-Adawiyya.
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Death of Shaybani, he was the cofounder of Hanafi Legal School.
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Foundation of Fez in the Maghrib.
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Death of Abu Yusuf, he was the co-founder of Hanafi Legal School.
