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Belisarius, general of the Emperor Justinian, creates first watermill outside of China.
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Japanese occupying forces in Korea lose power.
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Saint Columba founds a monastery on the island of Iona and begins converting Picts to Christianity.
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Justin II, nephew of Justinian becomes Byzantine Emperor.
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Muhammad was born to a merchant family
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Persians begin a sixty-year domination of Arabia.
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mahammads parents died he was orphaned to his parental grandfather, Abdul Al-Muttallb
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He fasted and meditaded up on a hill and angel gabriel came down and talked to him
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China finishes work on the Grand Canal.
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After several years he finally said something and wrote a book about what happened that later became the Quran
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muhammad and a few hundred followers left mecca and traveled to yathrib
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The Meccans did not take Muhammad's new success lightly. Early skirmishes led to three major battles in the next three years.
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In January, 630, they marched on Mecca and were joined by tribe after tribe along the way. They entered Mecca without bloodshed and the Meccans, seeing the tide had turned, joined them.
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Muhammad returned to live in Medina. In the next three years, he consolidated most of the Arabian Peninsula under Islam. In March, 632, he returned to Mecca one last time to perform a pilgrimage, and tens of thousands of Muslims joined him.
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After the pilgrimage, he returned to Medina. Three months later on June 8, 632 he died there, after a brief illness. He is buried in the mosque in Medina. Within a hundred years Muhammad's teaching and way of life had spread from the remote corners of Arabia
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After his grandfather died his uncle took care of him
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Muhammad was a sheppered boy who helped pay his uncles modest means
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Muhammads uncle took him on caravans to sell things. a merchant. Older merchants nicknamed him El-Almin or the one you can trust
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Muhammad carried goods for Khadija to the north with a profit
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Khadija impressed with muhammads honesty marries him
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Having such a hot wife they made love and came up with six children 2 died at birth. the rest were women. bummer
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Muslims won the first, lost the second, and outlasted the third,In March, 628, a treaty was signed between the two sides, which recognized the Muslims as a new force in Arabia and gave them freedom to move unmolested throughout Arabia. Meccan allies breached the treaty a year later.
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Lombards conquer northern Italy. Alcuin founds kingdom.
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Iron-chain suspension bridge invented in China.
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Wen Ti, formerly chief minister of the Chou, founds the Sui Dynasty in China.
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Foundation of Mercian kingdom in England among the Anglo-Saxon tribes.
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Visigoths in Spain convert to Christianity.
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Arabs, Khazars, and Turks invade Persia, but are driven out.
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Gregory I (Gregory the Great) becomes Pope.
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Suiko, Empress of Japan.
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Pope Gregory orders Saint Augustine the Lesser to go to England and convert the inhabitants to Christianity.
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Saint Augustine the Lesser lands in England and converts the kingdom of Kent to Christianity. He founds the first English church in Canterbury.
