Why did trade thrive in Muslim lands? In 610 C.E., Muhammad founded a new religion called Islam. Muhammad’s religion inspired the Arab people, and the Muslims had conquered an area stretching from Afghanistan to parts southern Spain. Trade, ideas, and culture thrived in this Islamic empire. Islam brought a sense of unity and purpose to the traders and people of the Arabian Peninsula. Arab armies spread Islam through the Middle East and beyond. Muslim traders also spread Islam. Between 1000 and 1500, C. E. the Islamic empire had many setbacks from the Christian Crusades, spanning roughly 200 years, to the Mongolian invasions from 1258 to 1300 C. E. but one thing that the Islamic people still did not see was rough economic conditions.
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E. One such thing was the massive crop yields of cereals, olive trees, and rice. The uniting of the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans areas, also gave way to new crops such as orange trees, rice and sugar cane. Major trade routes that ran through these lands, which were used to exchange crops, were used to transfer new ones. The Muslim culture also saw developments in the economic, social, and cultural implications of rearing and managing animals. These developments helped in rearing, camels, horned animals, horned animals, horses, sheep and armoring horses for war. Muslim civilization was based to a considerable extent on textiles, which were, of course, used in clothing but still more in furnishing. Eastern and Mediterranean furnishing was in fact dominated by the carpet, which was the most important, and sometimes the only, item of domestic furniture. Fabric was used for clothes and interior decoration, but also for tents and flags. Everywhere workshops were busy high quality fabric: very delicate linens, wool or cotton muslin, silk figured with gold. These workshops were commissioned to supply costly fabrics for use at different …show more content…
E. the west found it very difficult to from a coherent ideal of Islam, constrained by its own narrow horizons as well as by lack of sufficient and accurate information. For the most part Christians knew nothing about the religion of Islam, and saw Arab people only as an enemy. It was In Spain, where the two communities were in close though often-hostile interaction that a clearer picture of the religion as emerged. Two quite different populations in the West expressed a vision of Islam. One was that of a common people, fostered by propaganda that led up to, supported the crusades, and fed by the largely inaccurate information from the Chanson de Geste. The other was that of scholastics, emerging primarily in the context of Spain. Although sometimes it was reactionary, seeing Islam as violent and fanatic, in general the scholastics vision of Islam was reasonably balanced and attempted to portray Islam more realistically than was the case through the sterotypes that influenced Christian Culture. Islamic and christains religions dew common cultural materials, and both were shaped at the intersection of the Mediterranean Sea and its Adjacent landmasses, extending into Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia. The Clashes were real enough, but they had more to do with similarty than diference, with overlapping ideas, resources, and territorial
E. One such thing was the massive crop yields of cereals, olive trees, and rice. The uniting of the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans areas, also gave way to new crops such as orange trees, rice and sugar cane. Major trade routes that ran through these lands, which were used to exchange crops, were used to transfer new ones. The Muslim culture also saw developments in the economic, social, and cultural implications of rearing and managing animals. These developments helped in rearing, camels, horned animals, horned animals, horses, sheep and armoring horses for war. Muslim civilization was based to a considerable extent on textiles, which were, of course, used in clothing but still more in furnishing. Eastern and Mediterranean furnishing was in fact dominated by the carpet, which was the most important, and sometimes the only, item of domestic furniture. Fabric was used for clothes and interior decoration, but also for tents and flags. Everywhere workshops were busy high quality fabric: very delicate linens, wool or cotton muslin, silk figured with gold. These workshops were commissioned to supply costly fabrics for use at different …show more content…
E. the west found it very difficult to from a coherent ideal of Islam, constrained by its own narrow horizons as well as by lack of sufficient and accurate information. For the most part Christians knew nothing about the religion of Islam, and saw Arab people only as an enemy. It was In Spain, where the two communities were in close though often-hostile interaction that a clearer picture of the religion as emerged. Two quite different populations in the West expressed a vision of Islam. One was that of a common people, fostered by propaganda that led up to, supported the crusades, and fed by the largely inaccurate information from the Chanson de Geste. The other was that of scholastics, emerging primarily in the context of Spain. Although sometimes it was reactionary, seeing Islam as violent and fanatic, in general the scholastics vision of Islam was reasonably balanced and attempted to portray Islam more realistically than was the case through the sterotypes that influenced Christian Culture. Islamic and christains religions dew common cultural materials, and both were shaped at the intersection of the Mediterranean Sea and its Adjacent landmasses, extending into Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia. The Clashes were real enough, but they had more to do with similarty than diference, with overlapping ideas, resources, and territorial