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Period: 570 to Mar 6, 632
Muhammad's life
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Period: Mar 6, 632 to Mar 6, 661
Rightly Guided Caliphs
Abu Bakr, uncle: 632-634
Umar, friend: 634-644
Uthman, son-in-law: 644-656
Ali, first cousin/son-in-law: 656-661 -
Period: Mar 6, 661 to Mar 6, 750
Umayyad dynasty
Made Damascus, Syria the capital
Expanded to North Africa, Spain, and some of India -
Period: Mar 6, 750 to Mar 6, 1258
Abbasid Dynasty
Founded by Abu al-Abbas
Moved the capital to Baghdad
Persian influences
Focused on trade, scholarship, and the arts -
Period: Mar 6, 1055 to Mar 6, 1258
Seljuk Turks Rule
Abbasid Caliph; Seljuk's controlled military and the government
Introduced the term Sultan
Took over Baghdad in 1055; ruled over Iran and Turkey -
Period: Mar 6, 1200 to
Ottoman Empire
In the 1200s, Ottoman Empire began in NW corner of Asia Minor
Suleyman I was the greatest ruler
Collapsed at the end of WWI -
Period: Mar 6, 1300 to Mar 6, 1400
Timbuktu becomes leading center of Muslim learning
Sufis: spent their time preaching and teaching Islam; they won many followers throughout the Arab empire -
Mar 6, 1453
Fall of the Byzantine Empire
Mehmed the Conquerer sacks Constantinople, renames it Istanbul -
Period: Mar 6, 1500 to
Mogul Empire
Babur is going to begin the Empire, his grandson Akbar will be the greatest leader
Under Akbar trade increased
Akbar was culturally diverse and allowed people of all faiths to practiced what they believed -
Mar 6, 1526
Moguls Conquer India
Delhi is the capital of the empire