Islam:
Did you know that Islam is a very unique religion. You might know more or less. If you know thats means you know who is Muhammad!
In the Islamic world, in the century of Muhamad! When he got his first Qur'an. It spreed from Atlantic Ocean until the Central Asia. Soon the Qur'an keep spreeding until theres no more.
So soon they start a war. They all used outside forces to each other. However the Islam religion keep spreeding to Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Southest Asia. Islamic world was the most advanced in the middle ages.
The Islamic people pases the Eroupe economic miltery. Of the west, during the 18th and the 19th centuries. the islamic dynaties is, Ottomans and Mughals wich fall's into Eroupan hands! In the 20th century new religions found in the Islamic world.
The Muslim people found wealth so interesting so they started a conflict. The empire been thinking about this conflict from(632–750). Muhamad start teaching islam at Mecca before migrating to Medina.
He turned tribes of Arabia into sengular Arab Muslim religious polity
This the map of the Islamic caliphate.
In this map you can see many places of the Islamic world such as Mecca and so on.
Muhammad died at 632! His Golden age is from (750–1258)!
This is the picture of muhammad. Muhammad began preaching Islam at Mecca before migrating to Medina, later he unites the tribes of Arabia into a singular Arab Muslim religious. By the time Muhammad died, on June 8th, 632. He and his followers had united the entire Arabian Peninsula under Islam, and had started to expand into the areas now known as Syria and Iraq.
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