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Around 600 A.D. a new monotheistric religion began called Islam
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Muhammaed was orphaned as a child.He was raised by his grandparents. He grew up to be an honest and successful merchant. He married a wealthy widow and started a family.
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In 622, faced with the threat of murder, Muhammad and his followers left Mecca for Yathrib, a journey known as hijra. Later Yathrib was renamed Medina
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In the next two years, Muhammad worked to unite the Arabs. His death in 632 plunged his followers into Grief. Isalm survived the death of its prophet.
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Arab marched from victory to victory. The Arabs then swept into egypt. Later Muslim armies dashed west. In 711 they crossed the strait of Gibraltar into Spain
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In 732, the Arab push into europe was turned back at the battle of Tours of France. Muslim and Christian forces would continue to contend in Spain for centuries
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Disconnected Muslims found a leader in Abu al-Abbas, who captured Damascus in 750. Soon after one of his generals invited members of the defated Umayyad family to a banquet and killed them all.
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Disconnected muslims found a leader in Abu al-Abbas, who capturted Damascus in 750. Soon after one of his generals invited memebers of the defeated Umayyad family to a banquet.
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A seljuk sulatan controlled Baghdad, but he left the Abbassid caliph as a figuerhead. As the Seljuks pushed into Asia Minor, they threatned the Byzanntine empire.
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In 1099, christian crusaders captured Jerusalem. The city passed back and fourth between Muslim and Christians.
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The mualim general Salah al-Din outlasted christains from jerusalem in 1187. They regained it after is death, holding it until 1244
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In 1216, Genhiz Khanlet the Monglols out of Central Asia across Persia and Mesopatamia. Mongol armies returned again and again.
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Anothe mongol leader Timur the lame, led his armies to the Middle east. Though he was a muslim himslef, his ambitions were to conquer Muslims.
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Turkish and Mongol invaders conquered India. They set up the Mughal dynasty. The most important ruler was Akbar the Great
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The breathtaking swiftness of the Arab conquests did not slow down until nearly 100 years after Muhammad's death. In 718, the Arabs abandoned the siege of Constaninople.
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Abbassid control over the Arab empire fragmented. In spain, egypt and elsewhere, independant dynasties rule seperate Muslim states
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The Seljuk Turks migrated into the middle east from Central Asia. They adopted Islam and built a large empire across the Fertile Crescent.