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LXVII THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD

277.Mani crucified in Persia.
634.Battle of the Yarmuk. Moslems took Syria. Omar second Caliph.
635.Tai-tsung received Nestorian missionaries.
637.Battle of Kadessia.
638.Jerusalem surrendered to the Caliph Omar.
642.Heraclius died.
643.Othman third Caliph.
655.Defeat of the Byzantine fleet by the Moslems.
668.The Caliph Moawija attacked Constantinople by sea.
687.Pepin of Hersthal, mayor of the palace, reunited Austrasia and Neustria.
711.Moslem army invaded Spain from Africa.
715.The domains of the Caliph Walid I extended from the Pyrenees to China.
717-18.Suleiman, son and successor of Walid, failed to take Constantinople.
732.Charles Martel defeated the Moslems near Poitiers.
751.Pepin crowned King of the French.
768.Pepin died.
771.Charlemagne sole king.
774.Charlemagne conquered Lombardy.
786.Haroun-al-Raschid Abbasid Caliph in Bagdad (to 809).
795.Leo III became Pope (to 816).
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