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The first caliphs were menbers of Muhammads family
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Muhammad founded the Muslim religión, or islam, in Arabia. His succesors crated an extensive empire whith stretched from the Iberian Peninsula to India
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They controlled the Arabian Peninsula
They defeacted the byzantine Empire
They subdued the Neo-Persian Empire -
After a civil war, the position of caliph passed to the Umayyad Dynasty
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Their territoruial expansión, India in the east, Samarkand in the North and the Iberian Peninsula in the west
Stopped by the Franks at the Battle of poitiers -
The 8th to the 10th was the Golden age
After that it went into decline -
The 8th-10th the Golden age of the caliphate
The 10th-11th the crisis for frecuent civil wars limited economic development -
Sailors and Muslin merchants spread Islam beyond the borders of the caliphate, following the trade routes
