WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which individual conquered much of the Middle East and brought a sense of unity to the area under the religion of Islam?
A
Ghengis Khan
B
Mohammad
C
Osman
D
Constantine the Great
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 629, Muhammad returned to Mecca with an army of 1500 converts to Islam and entered the city unopposed and without bloodshed. Before his death two years later, he forcefully converted most of the Arabian Peninsula to his new faith and built a small empire.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Mongol conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate culminated in the horrific sack of Baghdad that effectively ended the Islamic Golden Age. The Islamic Golden Age-from the 8th to the mid-13th century-was one of the greatest periods of human flourishment in knowledge and progress, with Baghdad as its focal point.

Detailed explanation-3: -Islam spread from the Middle East to take hold across North Africa during the second half of the 7th century CE when the Umayyad Caliphate (661-750 CE) of Damascus conquered that area by military force.

Detailed explanation-4: -Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Thaqafī (Arabic: ; 31 December 695–18 July 715) was an Arab military commander in service of the Umayyad Caliphate who led the Muslim conquest of Sindh (part of modern Pakistan), inaugurating the Umayyad campaigns in India.

Detailed explanation-5: -The armies of Islam quickly and easily conquered the Arabian peninsula before moving on to take the homelands of their various neighbours. Marching out of Arabia in 639 they entered non-Arab Egypt; 43 years later they reached the shores of the Atlantic; and in 711 they invaded Spain.

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