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The birth of the prophet Muhammad. Without him, Islam would not have started.
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The spread of Islam from 570 B.C.E to 1500 A.D.
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Muhammad's first revelations from Allah. One night he is visited by the angel Gabriel.
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Muhammad writes the Koran after the angel visits him. The Koran are messages that Muhammad recieved from Allah.
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Muhammad starts preaching the new faith.
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Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina
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The prophet Muhammad dies
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Sunni vs. Shi'aIslam followers split into the Sunni and Shi'a. The Sunni believe that the caliphs should be the descendents of Muhammad.
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634-643
The early Muslim conquests in the Byzantine Empire -
The rise and decline of the Sasanian EmpireThe Arabs invade and destroy the Sasanian empire.
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Islam spreads to AfricaIslam spreads across into North Africa. Islamization linked Africa to the outside world through trade, religion and politics.
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The first Muslim raids in India.
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The Abbasid caliphate begins
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1096-1099 The first Christian Crusade in Palestine. The Christians attacked the Muslims because they wanted the Holy Land Jerusalem. This impacted the Christians more because they gained technological advances and took it back to Europe.
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The empire of Mail begins to rise
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The fall of Baghdad to the Mongols and the end of Abaid caliphate
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Beginning of the spread of Islam in southeast Asia
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Constantinople Turns into Istanbul
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Russia's Conversion to Christianity980-1015
Vladmirir, who was king of a Russia state choose Orthodox Christianity as the major religion of of Russia. He rejected Islam because of it's prohibition of alchohol. This was a big setback for Islam,
