Muhammad dies
On June 7th, 632, Muhammad passed away after a long agony. His book, The Quran, is without question the most influential book in history written by a single hand. Through it, he turned a desert flotsam of idolatrous tribes, into a nation with a single faith and a thirst for conquest. His life was followed by the most amazing feat in military history: the Arab Conquest—more rapid than the Roman, more lasting than the Mongol. Damascus was taken in 635, Antioch in 636 , Jerusalem in 638, all Syria was in Muslim hands by 640, and Persia and Egypt were conquered by 641
Source: Durant, Will. The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization, Christian, Islamic, and Judaic, From Constantine to Dante, A.D. 325-1300. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950.
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Full disclosure, I may occasionally borrow a sentence from Will Durant's Story of Civilization. I absolutely love that collection!