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Islamic Empire
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The rapid success and durability of the Islamic Empire rests in part on the swift development of a monumental Islamic art. The Muslims took over large urbanized societies and a rich legacy of intact artistic traditions. The first conquests, Byzantium and Persia, vyed for territory in Saudi Arabia, but instead, were defeated by the Arabs and formed the core of their Empire. Alexander the Great conquered these regions 800 years earlier. Subjugation to Greece unified them under the artistic traditions of Classical Greece. The Roman Empire created yet another cultural layer.
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Children in the Islamic Empire generally did what their parents did. Girls never went to school, but they worked at home taking care of their brothers and sisters and cooking. Girls carried water from the well, and they went out to look for fuel for the fire. Boys usually worked in the fields, plowing or weeding. But some boys went to school in the madrasa, where they learned to recite the Koran, and ... learned how to live an Islamic life.
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It was out of these independent movements that the next strong Muslim dynasty to rule the Islamic Empire was born. As mentioned before, the ever increasing pressure of the Umayyad Caliphs and their undeniable corruption sparked anti Arabic movements in the former Sasanian territories. These initiatives were more or less unsuccessful in achieving their goals, especially the ones who rejected the new religion and wanted to demanded a return to the situation under the Sasanian rule.
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The Islamic empire began to expand beyond the Arabian Peninsula after the death of the prophet and founder of Islam, Mohammed, in 632 AD. Islamic leaders conquered Iran in 641 and in 642 Egypt was under Islamic control. In the eighth century, all of northern Africa, the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), India and Indonesia became Islamic lands. The Muslims were stopped at France by their defeat at the Battle of Tours in 732. Nonetheless, Islamic rule continued on the Iberian Peninsula for nearly nine centuries.
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At one point after the Prophet’s death, the Islamic Empire stretched from Jerusalem to as far as the borders of China, the shores of the Iberian Peninsula and down to Egypt. Some of the greatest scientific achievements were made by Muslim and non-Muslim scholars who resided within this very empire.
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Less than a century after the death of Mohammed in 632, a unified Islamic empire stretched across the Middle East and North Africa, and into Spain and Central Asia. While the spread was rapid, local cultures and traditions were generally respected and assimilated, and their influence can be seen in the arts.
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