MUSLIM EMPIRES

MUSLIM EMPIRES MILITARY SUCCESS

• Their enemies the Persians and Byzantines were weak because they have been fighting each other for a long time
• Most of their soldiers were nomads, the nomads were used to fighting in the desert
• The nomads were used to traveling from long distances as well

THE PILGRIMAGE PROPHET MOHAMMED TOOK

• The pilgrimage prophet mohammed took was called Hijra
• Mohammed took the pilgrimage to medina to get followers, and then come back to Mecca and show all the people who believe him
• Mohammed also left Mecca because Allah told him to
• Mohammed was also getting a assassination plotted against him

GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES

• The Middle East contained mostly of desert
• The desert impacted the development of clans in the Middle East, by their being bedouins
• A Bedouin is a nomadic tribe in the deserts of the Middle East

CONTROLLED LANDE

• Spain
• Tripoli
• Egypt
• Arabia, Syria, Persia, and Afghanistan

MAIN DIFFERENCES FROM SHIA AND SUNNI SECTS

• Shias elected caliphs after the death of mohammed
• There was three elected caliphs
• Their names were Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman

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