827 Conquest of Crete and Sicily. Expansion ended and internal conflict began.
Capital: Baghdad.
1055 Turks conquered the caliphate.
Succesors of Muhammad were given the title of Caliph and lived in Medina.
632 Death of Muhammad.
The Empire spread throughout Syria, Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, Mesopotamia and Persia.
Capital: Damascus.
Capital: Medina
The Umayyad family inherited the Caliph title.
The Arabic Empire was very big, extending throughout the north of Africa, westwards to the Iberian Peninsula and eastwards to the Indus Valley and Turkestan.
1258 Moghuls conquered Baghdad.
732 Battle of Poitiers. Muslim defeat by the Franks.
