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Muhammad is a very important person in the foundation of Islam faith. There isn't an exact date of when he was born, but the year was approximately 570.
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Muhammad recieved his firts vision in a cave near Mecca, this was a pivotal point in the development of Islam.
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Muhammad took some of his closest followers and fled to Medina from Mecca.
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Muhammad's death was devastating to the Muslim people, they had lost their religion's founder and the person they looked to for guidance. Knowing someone had to step up, Abu Baker was chosen as caliph. From that point on there was never a leader as strong and long lasting as him.
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Muslim conquests to spread their faith to others begin. This proves how serious they were about religion and how far they would go to spread their beliefs.
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Caliph Uthman had the Qur'an written down during his reign. This was a crucial moment in Islam history because it wasn't just ideals being shared through discussion, it was on paper.
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Arabic becomes the official written language and helps establish Islamic religious independence.
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Muslims were defeated in Cordoba by Christian Reconquistas. This made it obvious how serious the tension between religions of the world was and how it was growing.
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Jerusalem is known as the most spiritual place, so the loss was a disastrous blow for the Islams. This also proves that Muslims were fighting not just for land but for spiritual superiority.
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By 1400 the Islamic religion reaches the Philippines, this proves just how long Muslims worked to spread their religion and how far it spread as well.
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The ruling classes of eastern and western Africa convert to Islam. Not all the smaller groups in Africa converted but the most critical ones did.
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Hadith are sayings of the prophet which are compiled in 800CE adding to the collection of Islamic documentation. At the same time this is happening, Sicily surrenders to Muslim rule.
