[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Apple Lamps [@lamps_apple](/creator/twitter/lamps_apple) on x 27.7K followers Created: 2025-07-21 07:50:11 UTC It’s kinda crazy how Rome’s downfall and volcanos led to the rise of Islam XXX AD – Fall of the Western Roman Empire… Western Europe fractures into unstable kingdoms. 500s AD – Byzantine and Sassanid Empires dominate the East.. engaged in constant warfare, both growing weaker. XXX AD – massive volcanic eruption triggers global cooling.. famine and darkness across Eurasia “The sun became dark and its darkness lasted for XX months. Each day it shone for about four hours, and this light was only a feeble shadow.” — John of Ephesus XXX AD – Second major eruption deepens the climatic collapse… severe agricultural failures and social unrest leading to conditions ripe for plague 541–544 AD – first wave of the Plague of Justinian.. tens of millions die.. Byzantine Empire critically weakened. XXX AD – Another wave of plague hits… economic collapse spreads across the Eastern Mediterranean. 602–628 AD – Exhausting Byzantine–Sassanid War.. both empires devastated, leaving a power vacuum. XXX AD – Muhammad receives first revelation in Mecca.. start of the Islamic religious movement. XXX AD – The Hijra.. Muhammad and followers migrate to Medina… birth of the Islamic calendar (Year X AH). XXX AD – Death of Muhammad… islam is unified in Arabia and poised for rapid expansion. XXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [empire](/topic/empire) [Post Link](https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/1947202432900964568)
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Apple Lamps @lamps_apple on x 27.7K followers
Created: 2025-07-21 07:50:11 UTC
It’s kinda crazy how Rome’s downfall and volcanos led to the rise of Islam
XXX AD – Fall of the Western Roman Empire… Western Europe fractures into unstable kingdoms.
500s AD – Byzantine and Sassanid Empires dominate the East.. engaged in constant warfare, both growing weaker.
XXX AD – massive volcanic eruption triggers global cooling.. famine and darkness across Eurasia
“The sun became dark and its darkness lasted for XX months. Each day it shone for about four hours, and this light was only a feeble shadow.” — John of Ephesus
XXX AD – Second major eruption deepens the climatic collapse… severe agricultural failures and social unrest leading to conditions ripe for plague
541–544 AD – first wave of the Plague of Justinian.. tens of millions die.. Byzantine Empire critically weakened.
XXX AD – Another wave of plague hits… economic collapse spreads across the Eastern Mediterranean.
602–628 AD – Exhausting Byzantine–Sassanid War.. both empires devastated, leaving a power vacuum.
XXX AD – Muhammad receives first revelation in Mecca.. start of the Islamic religious movement.
XXX AD – The Hijra.. Muhammad and followers migrate to Medina… birth of the Islamic calendar (Year X AH).
XXX AD – Death of Muhammad… islam is unified in Arabia and poised for rapid expansion.
XXXXX engagements
Related Topics empire