Spread+of+Islam+from+Arabia+to+Europe

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From the Umayyads, to the conquest of North Africa, Islam was able to spread itself out towards Spain, towards Portugal and into Europe from there. It's conquest of Cordoba allowed for Islam beliefs to spread around the border of the major city while emphasizing and living alongside the prosperous region.

Arab armies crossed the Straits of Gibraltar to conquer Spanis and threaten France. Although the Muslim advance was blocked by the victories of Charles Matrel and the Franks at Poiter in 731, the Arabs did not fully retreat until decades later. Muslims warriors and sailors dominated much of the Medditerranean. By the early 700s, the Umayyads rules an empire that extended from Spain.

There the growth was stunted by the Christian Empire of Byzantium. There the growth of Islam spread through architecture, through exhibitions of faith and culture, through the strength of the army. Of course the Muslims weren't "forcing" the Spaniards, the Europeans out of their own city, but they were allowed to live there, while exhibiting the need for belief and the necessity of Shahahada.

"The Byzantine Empire was shaped by the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabs" After the Arabs went into Europe from the east, and after they took over trade in the Meditarrean sea, the need for a new sense of rehibiliatation, of revenge, and of redemption occurred. This lead, and became a factor to the onslaught of the crusades, and of the power of arbitrary reknowledge.

In Justinian's achievements, his miltary exploits specifically wanted to capture the old Roman empire and achieve what they had previously achieved, but in order to do that, they needed to conquer over the Arab nation as well. With **Belisarius** Justinian spread into Ravenna. And from there Islam stopped spreading and started to be pushed back from Italy and from the Byzantine Empire. Wars with the Arab nation was not uncommon, but Byzantine never backed down, which added on to the overall "stunt" of the Islamic empire. From Bulgaria, to the Slavic kingdoms, Islam was being removed as Justinian was expanding his Empire.

From then on, tensions from the borders of Spain had started to build up from the Christian Pope to the Islamic empire, and then started the Crusades in the 11th century. That was the reaction of the Pope to the Islam empire, hostile and violent towards the outward expansion and the injustices of **al-Hakim**. They wanted to reclaim the holy land in Jerusalem, and then wanted to liberate the empire from the "evil" reign of the Muslims. From then on, Europe slowly and gradually seeped in Islamic culture, from the city, and from the thousands of people being slaughtered, and from the thousands of tools, of food, of goods being held around the Middle-East and those warriors of the holy land brought those traditions, the culture back in Europe where it started to assimulate into the major population.

Christianity and Islam was never friends in the first place, and that lead to a constant struggle as one can see to modern day i nthe terroist attacks that meant to "Liberate Earth of The Christian Nation".