11-6-12

  • Islam Grows
    • New leader
      • after muhammad they picked Abu-Bakr to be the first caliph(succesor)
      • Abu was muhammads good friend
    • Issues
      • not everyone like Abu
      • some tribes abandoned Islam
      • they wouldnt pay taxes
      • some individuals declared themselfs profits
        • Hurt the religion
    • Attempts to resolve
      • Abu declared Jihad
        • inner struggle with Evil
        • armed struggle against non believers
    • Expansion in military
      • Abu-Bakr started it
      • next 3 successors did it as well
      • expanded ino the sassanid and Byzantine empire
    • Reason for success
      • well disciplined
      • great leaders
      • wernt tolerant of religions in their conqured area so there muslims in the empires would help other muslims that invade the empires
      • they did very well in conquests between thses empires, they had been fighting for many years
    • treatment of conqured people
      • Quran does not allow muslims to force others to convery to this religion
      • muslims allowed christians and jews to practive their religions buy they couldnt spread it
      • made the christians and jews pay a tax, however becasue they di not fight for the islam military
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