Rise Of Islam 600-1200

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The Rise of Islam 600-1200 A. Origins of Islam How did nomads gain Money? What made caravan trade more powerfully dominant? Why did Mecca become such a prosperous city so fast? The Arabian people lived exclusively in the Arabian Peninsula and on desert fringes of Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. People in the Arabian Peninsula have become sailors and farmers rather that nomads. Many caravan nomads got their money from providing camel guides and safe passage to merchants wanting transportation northward carrying frankincense and myrrh used in religious rituals. Returning caravans brought manufactured goods from Meso. and the Med. Nomad dominance of Caravan trade became more powerfully dominant when efficient military camel saddles. This caused a rise in Arab dominated caravan cities. By 600 CE ox carts and horse drawn chariots had been replaced by pack camels and donkeys. Arabs that followed caravans became familiar with Sanasid Byzantine Empire and many adopted one form or another of Christianity. A Nomadic kinship called Quraysh settled in Mecca and took control of trade. The city grew rapidly to prosperity (partly because it was far away from any other major trade cities to be attacked). The shrine called Ka’ba is regarded by the Jew and Christians as: Abraham as the builder of the Ka’ba of that God asked and right outside the location him to sacrifice his son, but it was not Isaac but Ishmael. Muhammad born in 570, grew up an orphan, married Khadijuh. Around 610 he had a revelation from the angel Gabriel, he shared the word of Allah(God). He shared this with his close friends and family members. His wife, Khadijuh, his uncle’s son Ali, and his friend Abu Bakr and others closed to him believed that he was the messenger of God. Most Christians, Jews and Arabs of this time believed in unseen spirits(gods, jinns desert spirits, demonic shaitans) , and they

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