How Did Christianity And Islam Spread
Christianity and Islam: Spreading of World Religions Christianity and Islam are one of the main world religions that were created from one god and developed into two separate religions overtime. Christianity now is the world’s largest religion with over 2 billion followers and was founded after the death of Jesus. Islam comes in as the second largest religion in the world with over 1.8 billion muslims which is roughly about one fifth of the world’s population. These two religion were spreaded across the globe by their followers and missionaries, who are the people who spread religions (mostly overseas). Originated in the Roman Empire in 64 CE, Christianity is considered to be founded by the followers of Jesus and spread across the world
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The Islam Empire become larger than the Roman Empire quickly. It was easier to convert people to Islam because of their philosophy was persuasive, they were treating people fairly, they didn’t have any class system, and their teachings were about peace as the word “Islam” itself means peace. The army conquered lands, took over fallen empire, and converted the people into Islam. “By 750...Muslims had advanced across North Africa into modern-day Spain and Portugal and extended their reach to the Aral Sea and the Silk Road city of Samarkand.” (Prothero 40). One of the reasons that Islam spread so quickly was also because they started building mosques and other religious structures after they conquered lands. Muhammad’s army spread the religion over the lands and the missionaries spread religion overseas. Likewise Christianity, Islam was also spread because of their missionaries who wanted to spread their religion, teachings, god’s words, etc to other people.
Mobility of Islam spread the beliefs of it’s religion throughout the world because of quran. Overtime, their beliefs become isolated according to different regions; people have the same beliefs for their gods but they practice their religion differently. Looking at modern day Islam, some people look muslims differently than others. Terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS states that they are doing all the terrorist attacks for Islam, which has nothing to do with the
The Islam Empire become larger than the Roman Empire quickly. It was easier to convert people to Islam because of their philosophy was persuasive, they were treating people fairly, they didn’t have any class system, and their teachings were about peace as the word “Islam” itself means peace. The army conquered lands, took over fallen empire, and converted the people into Islam. “By 750...Muslims had advanced across North Africa into modern-day Spain and Portugal and extended their reach to the Aral Sea and the Silk Road city of Samarkand.” (Prothero 40). One of the reasons that Islam spread so quickly was also because they started building mosques and other religious structures after they conquered lands. Muhammad’s army spread the religion over the lands and the missionaries spread religion overseas. Likewise Christianity, Islam was also spread because of their missionaries who wanted to spread their religion, teachings, god’s words, etc to other people.
Mobility of Islam spread the beliefs of it’s religion throughout the world because of quran. Overtime, their beliefs become isolated according to different regions; people have the same beliefs for their gods but they practice their religion differently. Looking at modern day Islam, some people look muslims differently than others. Terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS states that they are doing all the terrorist attacks for Islam, which has nothing to do with the