Islamic_Empire

Islamic Empire Essay #4 - Compare and Contrast the Islamic and Byzantine worlds between about 600 and 1500 AD. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, power was relinquished to many different strongholds throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Trade was growing throughout the world and ready to be conquered. In Western Europe expansion was dominated by the Germanic people, they had entered their own Iron Age and were changing the basis of society in that region. Eastern Europe had already begun its transition from the Eastern Roman Empire into the Byzantine Empire with the penetration of Christianity into all aspects of life. The Arab world was gaining strength and took over the rest of what the Roman Empire left behind after its fall using its new religion to expand, following the evangelical example of the prophet Mohammed. Both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds were defined by their use of a monotheistic religion in governing their empire\'s, a first in Western history. Islam began in Mecca in 610 AD, but the start of the Muslim era is marked by the prophet Mohammed\'s journey from Mecca to Medina in 622. The new religion quickly spread through the Arabian Peninsula and in the empire, islamic, world, byzantine, western, east, century, arab, trade, africa, roman, religion, arabs, after, worlds, west, until, through, sea, over, new, islam, india, history, goods, fall, expansion, europe, conquered, china, byzantium, both, asia, ad, while, ways