In the year 610, a merchant named Mohammed began a movement that would have lasting repercussions even to the modern era. Mohammed claimed that an angel came down to him commanding him to write, and as the angel narrated he wrote what it said, and this was the Qur’an. Within a century, this seemingly harmless or irrelevant moment would cause this new religion of Islam to violently conquer with the sword, all of Northern Africa, Spain, the Holy Land, Persia, and even acquisitioning much of the Byzantine Empire. These violent conquests of land, many belonging to Christians, still influence events today, but at the time it changed the view of Europeans who were formerly part of the old Roman Empire.
The rapid spread of Islam “shook the Middle
The rapid spread of Islam “shook the Middle