A Map of Time
1. 570–632
-------- Era of Rightly Guided Caliphs Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople; end of Byzantine Empire Christian reconquest of Spain complete; end of Muslim Spain Emergence of Sunni/Shi’a split Emergence of Sufism Life of Muhammad Mongols sack Baghdad; formal end of Abbasid caliphate Conquest of Spain Crusaders seize Jerusalem
2. 632–661
-------- Era of Rightly Guided Caliphs Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople; end of Byzantine Empire Christian reconquest of Spain complete; end of Muslim Spain Emergence of Sunni/Shi’a split Emergence of Sufism Life of Muhammad Mongols sack Baghdad; formal end of Abbasid caliphate Conquest of Spain Crusaders seize Jerusalem
3. 680–692
-------- Era of Rightly Guided Caliphs Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople; end of Byzantine Empire Christian reconquest of Spain complete; end of Muslim Spain Emergence of Sunni/Shi’a split Emergence of Sufism Life of Muhammad Mongols sack Baghdad; formal end of Abbasid caliphate Conquest of Spain Crusaders seize Jerusalem
4. 711–718
-------- Era of Rightly Guided Caliphs Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople; end of Byzantine Empire Christian reconquest of Spain complete; end of Muslim Spain Emergence of Sunni/Shi’a split Emergence of Sufism Life of Muhammad Mongols sack Baghdad; formal end of Abbasid caliphate Conquest of Spain Crusaders seize Jerusalem
5. 800–1000
-------- Era of Rightly Guided Caliphs Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople; end of Byzantine Empire Christian reconquest of Spain complete; end of Muslim Spain Emergence of Sunni/Shi’a split Emergence of Sufism Life of Muhammad Mongols sack Baghdad; formal end of Abbasid caliphate Conquest of Spain Crusaders seize Jerusalem
6. 1099
-------- Era of Rightly Guided Caliphs Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople; end of Byzantine Empire Christian reconquest of Spain complete; end of Muslim Spain Emergence of Sunni/Shi’a split Emergence of Sufism Life of Muhammad Mongols sack Baghdad; formal end of Abbasid caliphate Conquest of Spain Crusaders seize Jerusalem
7. 1258
-------- Era of Rightly Guided Caliphs Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople; end of Byzantine Empire Christian reconquest of Spain complete; end of Muslim Spain Emergence of Sunni/Shi’a split Emergence of Sufism Life of Muhammad Mongols sack Baghdad; formal end of Abbasid caliphate Conquest of Spain Crusaders seize Jerusalem
8. 1453
-------- Era of Rightly Guided Caliphs Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople; end of Byzantine Empire Christian reconquest of Spain complete; end of Muslim Spain Emergence of Sunni/Shi’a split Emergence of Sufism Life of Muhammad Mongols sack Baghdad; formal end of Abbasid caliphate Conquest of Spain Crusaders seize Jerusalem
9. 1492
-------- Era of Rightly Guided Caliphs Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople; end of Byzantine Empire Christian reconquest of Spain complete; end of Muslim Spain Emergence of Sunni/Shi’a split Emergence of Sufism Life of Muhammad Mongols sack Baghdad; formal end of Abbasid caliphate Conquest of Spain Crusaders seize Jerusalem