Europe



Islam spread into Spain through the Umayyad Conquest from 711 – 718. It was a period of time on constant invasions to gain land and spread their faith.



When the Muslims took over in Spain trade was improved where the Spanish mainly traded silver and gold. Trade routes open up Spain to parts of Asia.



Numerous Muslim Rulers took over Spain and spread their Islamic faith to the people. However the Christian Kingdom posed a threat to Muslim Leaders, and Christians were uprising to take over the Muslim leaders. It was an obviously a negative outcome with Islams taking over Europe. It seems like the people wanted them out even though it was Islamic faith to not be bothered by other faiths. Islamic influences spread into the West, with its education system and architecture. The people began to have a higher education with teachers teaching them at a university. In Spain, there was architecture of abstract designs of Mosques. A mosque in Cordoba, still stands there with striking similarities of Islamic designs. This shows how even though, the Christians did not agree with Islamic faith, much was influenced by the Islams.

After the Seljuk Turks invaded Islam, they expanded the territory into Byzantine and defeated them. However it began to Crusades when the Muslim took over the holy land or Jerusalem. It began a series of conquest back and forth to take back the holy land between Muslim and Christians. Afterwards, however the warring conquest influenced the Muslims to created new and better weapons. Even invasions of other land in Europe influence the Muslim architecture.

media type="custom" key="7388531" align="center"



[] [] [] []