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 The Rise Of Islam  Chapter 1 Muhammed was born in Mecca (a city in Arabia) in AD570. Muhammad’s dad died before he was even born and his mum died when he was only 6. Mecca was a busy trade route to and from a wealthy Persian Empire. In Mecca there were a lot of tribes and he was a part of the Koraish tribe a very mighty and powerful tribe. He grew up in well poverty. Most of the people in Arabia were Normand’s they were people who wondered around with their animals and would sometimes steal other peoples animals. Back to Mecca the people worshiped a lot of gods because whenever they were in need for something they would worship that particular god and put their idol up and worship it, in Mecca the most holiest thing was the Ka’ba this thing contains around 360 holy objects. Chapter 2 Every year in the month of Ramadan there was a big party around the cubs where pepper made sacrifices around the idols. Muhammed hated it so he would get out and sleep in a nearby cave on Mount Hira. One night in AD610 he was sleeping in the cave when he was awoken by the brightest light that blinded his eyes it was Angel Gabriel she said “READ” 4 times and finally he asked “What should I read?” she replied “Read in the name of your lord who created man from a drop of blood. Read of your lord of most generous taught by the pem taught man taught man he did not know.” Then she recited all the revelations and visits were more frequent. In AD 622 Muhammed and his Muslim friends moved to a nearby town called Medina, he was welcomed and started to build up thousands of followers by preaching all about Islam Muslims call the move to Medina the Hejira, this is the start of the history of Islam. Later Muhammed came back to Mecca and made it into Islam’s most holy city. He cleared out the pagen objects and also removed all objects from the Ka’ba. Chapter 3 Fighting first broke out when the Meccan trade passed Medina. The Meccans accused the Muslims of attaking the traders and now the Meccans bring armed guards with them. The fighting got worse and now the Muslims won the first battle lost the second one and won the third one. Now Muhammed has over 10, 000 men. Muhammed spread Islam in most of Arabia. Arab tribes came more involved in wars with nearby countries first was to get more booty later went to conquer. They wanted to conquer because they wanted to spread Islam and wanted fertile land to and enough food this is because Arabia cannot provide these things. Muslims used calvary as swords and camels and horses to charge at them. The Persian empire have been weekend after the deadly war they charged at them. The Muslims were helped by the locals because they were paied heavy taxes. The Muslims were very kind to the people after they conquered the land. It was said if you died fighting for God you would miss your judgement and go straight to heaven. Muhammed then died in AD 632. After Muhammeds death the Islam people had conquered at least 9 countries. This therefore shows that the Islamic military is very powerful because of conquering this many countries. The people who converted into Islam had to pay the normal tax however the people who wont convert like the Christians they were not forced to change but had to pay extra tax.