Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these events in the history of the Islamic world, earliest first.
- Abd al-Rahman III claims the caliphal title at Córdoba
- The Almohad army is destroyed at Las Navas de Tolosa
- The Umayyads take power and rule from Damascus
- Arab forces defeat a Roman army at Yarmuk
- The Abbasids found Baghdad
- The Hijra from Mecca to Medina
Hints
- Four of these fall within two centuries of each other and two are much later.
- Hijra 622, Yarmuk 636, Umayyads from 661, Baghdad 762, the Córdoban caliphate 929, Las Navas 1212.
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- The Hijra from Mecca to Medina
- Arab forces defeat a Roman army at Yarmuk
- The Umayyads take power and rule from Damascus
- The Abbasids found Baghdad
- Abd al-Rahman III claims the caliphal title at Córdoba
- The Almohad army is destroyed at Las Navas de Tolosa
Why
The compression at the start is the striking part: from a migration in 622 to the destruction of the Sasanian empire and the loss of Roman Syria and Egypt inside thirty years. Everything after 661 happens at an ordinary historical pace by comparison.
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