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Muhammad is born in Mecca which was a country in between the Byzantine Empire and the Persian EMpire who were always fighting. Mecca was also home many polytheistic religions as well as a few monothestic.
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Muhammad was told to go and tell the word of God and he was necouraged by his family to do so and slowly developed a group of followers.
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Muhammad and his followers leave to go to Medina. They got kicked out of Mecca. This is now celebrated as all Muslims should return to Mecca at some point in their life.
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Muhammad was also a very good general and political leader so he took back Mecca which started the Islam political rule and expansion.
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Muhammad died at estimated age of around sixty.
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Christian Crussades start killing anyone who isn't Christian. And of course this included the Muslims. They also went to take back Jerusalem from the Islamic Empire.
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The first Mosque in Canada was called the Al-Rashid Mosque and it is in Edmonton.
