Muslim traders advanced and took control of established trade routes on both of the continents, according to Muslim Trade Networks, in order to expand the network of trade they already possessed. The established trade routes explain why Baghdad was chosen by the Abbasids as the capital and why the Sahara desert was not considered an obstacle in the eyes of the Arabs. They describe the many routes that Muslims had to other continents and cities so that trade and religion could unite the vast empire as said in Muslim Trade Networks. The Muslim trade routes made up a true “network” because it was connected over vast amounts of land and conquests. “Under the Abbasids, the center of the Moslem world was the city of Baghdad…not chosen by inadvertence…” says Document A.
The religion spread very quickly because of four main reasons, the military, trading, the religious appeal, and the order it gave. The first was Islam spread so quickly was because of the military. As document D states the muslims were not allowed to attack each other which made they unite into one army and then raid other non muslim communities to spread their new religion quickly. These raids quickly turned into something else as the entire Middle East was being attacked by the Muslims. These raids spread the territory from the Middle East, to Africa, and finally to Spain (Document C).
The Crusade and the Holy Land 201440 Fall CHHI 301-B11 LUO The Crusade and the Holy Land There were eight major crusades and several campaigns that took place in the history that motivated Europe to seek the holy land. Noble men contributed to the crusade in the holy land for men have the freedom to visit the site today. Both Christians and Muslims had always lived together in Palestine before the land was overrun by violence. Some of the sites have been replaced with building such as The Holy Sepulcher is a church in Jerusalem built on the spot where the Lord was crucified and buried. Pilgrims were religious people who travel to make sacred, to holy places in Jerusalem.
4.) He reformed the Law and made it Justinian's code 5.) He ordered the construction of Hagia Sophia is legacy was his architecture ..... as well as architecture such as the Hagia Sophia's restoration he proceeded with the codification of the new law and restored the roman empire by reconquering lands such as Italy. He extended Byzantine teritory and influence,his building programme (which included the Hagia Sophia) gave not just Constantinople but all the areas under Byzantine control beautiful churches (and as a byproduct spread Byzantine building technology),and his Justinian Code is still the basis of many legal codes today.He also invented the convenience store,and set up silk production in Constantinople independent of China,thus breaking the Chinese monopoly on silk supplies to Europe - something which made the Byzantine empire a LOT of money.He showed that the Byzantines were a major power internationally again,not just a regional power.This gave the Byzantine empire more wealth,more power,more status,and thus more influence internationally.
Morelista forces captured Oaxaca in 1812 and in 1813 Morelos convoked a congress in Chilpancingo, Guerrero. The manifesto issued by the congress, radical for its day, advocated abolition of slavery, breaking up monopolies, imposition of an income tax and deportation of all Spaniards from Mexico. Morelos then assembled an army of 5,600 and marched on Valladolid, his native city. Leading the city's defenders was none other than Iturbide. The radical Chilpancingo manifesto had disturbed many conservative creoles, including Iturbide, and they went over to the Spanish side.
In the beginning, all the empire was united under Chinggis Khan and had effectively ruled. Golden Horde and Yuan dynasty differed greatly in their methods of political power because they were directly influenced by the Confucianism or Islam. This led to diverse method of political control as Islamic teachings taught that Another big change from 1200 to 1500 CE was placement of the scholars in the empire. All the famous scholars were collected from conquered nations and brought to Mongol. However, as the empire split into four the scholars were split to different nations and culture which effectively affected the method of political power because Golden Horde was severely influenced by the Islamic teachings and the Khan of Golden Horde was converted to Islam.
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Campaign, was Hitler’s last counterattack on December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945 which became the largest battle the U.S. had ever fought and caught U.S. troops by surprise, killing nearly 80,000 soldiers (Bulge). This attack was secretly planned by Hitler and was his last shot before his
Rome had a tremendous impact on the Church, and the results of it form the world over the next millennium. Shortly after the fall of Rome to the Germanic people, Byzantine culture took root. There was however another civilization emerging from the eastern horizon. Islam. Before Islam many of the Arab tribes religions were based on their clans’ gods.
In AD 64 the city of Rome is in flames and Nero blames the Christians to justify a mass slaughter. ____________________________ Justo L. Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity, New York, NY, Harper Collins Publishers, 2010 Volume 1 "The Early Church to the
He cut off their supply to water for 85 days, as smallpox ravaged the city. There was one final assault, which led to the Aztecs surrender. In a meager two years, the greedy, insistent, glorified Cortes, triumphed over the centuries old Empire of the Aztecs. Even though, Cortes did not come to America with open intensions of a mass murder of the Aztecs, he would stop at nothing to convert the Indian population, and if not converted, killed. His relentlessness led to the extinction of the