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570
Muhammad Born
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600
Muhammad Begins Preaching
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608
Muhammad's First Religious Experience
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622
Muhammad flees Yathrib
- Yathrib is later renamed Medina, this date is the beginning of the Muslim calendar
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628
Muhammad and his followers take over Mecca
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632
Muhammad Dies
- Muhammad's Father in Law is appointed as caliph (successor) to Muhammad
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652
Islam Spreads
- Islam spreads into Syria, Palestine, Iran, Egypt and parts North Africa
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661
Umayyads gain power
- The fourth caliph to Muhammad, Ali is assassinated transitioning power Umayyads
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709
Muslims conquer Spain for the first time
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750
Abbasids overthrow Umayyads
- Abbasids were a rival clan to the Umayyads
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756
Abd al-Rahman, last Umayyad prince takes over Muslim Spain
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912
Abd al-Rahman III assumes power
- He rebels against Arab leaders who had been challenging the authority of the Umayyad dynasty
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929
Abd al-Rahman III proclaimed himself caliph
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933
All of Muslim Spain united under Abd al-Rahman III
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1000
30 volume medical encyclopedia produced
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1258
Mongols kill the last Abbasid caliph
- Mongols invaded Baghdad ending the Abbasid reign
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Period: 1290 to 1330
Ottomans (Turkish Muslims) start opposing Byzantine controlled cities
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1453
Ottomans end Byzantine Empire with takeover of Constantinople
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Period: 1520 to 1566
Height of Ottoman power
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1526
Mughal empire invades India
- The Mughals conquered North and Central India
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1556
Akbar the Great comes to power
- This created a Golden Age for Muslim India
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Period: to
Peak of Mughal Empire
- Led by Akbar the Great's grandson, Shah Jahan
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Afghan warriors invade and end Safavid empire
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Last Mughal Emperor exiled
- This happened when the British gained control of India
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End of the Ottoman Empire
- long reigns and success attributed to religious tolerance