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Events relating to the arabs
Within two years of the death of Muhammad, the Arabs surge north into the Syrian desert
The Arabs defeat a Persian army at Kadisiya and then sack the city of Ctesiphon, effectively bringing to an end the Sassanian dynasty
The unopposed capture of Alexandria by the Arabs completes the Muslim conquest of Egypt
The Arabs establish a garrison town at Kairouan, as a base for the conquest of northwest Africa
With the entire middle east under their control, the Arabs make Damascus the capital of the Umayyad caliphate
Carthage is captured from the Byzantines by the Arabs and is finally destroyed, though Tunis will later rise nearby
Muslim Arabs cross from north Africa into Spain and drive the Visigoths from Toledo
The Muslim advance into France is halted when Charles Martel defeats the Arabs between Poitiers and Tours
A battle at the Talas river, between the Chinese and the Arabs, is a decisive victory for the Arabs
Skilled Chinese paper-makers are captured by the Arabs - beginning the slow westward transmission of the technology of paper
The Arabs get a foothold in Sicily and begin a slow process, not complete till AD 965, of squeezing the Byzantines out of the island
700,000 Palestinian Arabs flee from their homes in Israel and become refugees