Select one of the following factors and evaluate how it impacted the rise of muslim empires: military conquests treatment of minority religions advances in art, literature, and technology.

I will choose the advances in art, literature, and technology. Because the increase and advancement of the following, it became a very cultural empire and many people from the world came to study under their rules. When they go back to where they first came from, they spread the message of Islam and the Muslims' teachings that they learnt from their teachers from the empire and they would they would also make the muslim influence spread exponentially across the globe. From the textbook pg number 266 in says The walls formed a circle, with the caliph's palace in the center. Poets, scholars, philosophers, and entertainers from all over the Muslim world flocked to the Abbasid court. Under the Abbasids, Baghdad exceeded Constantinople in size and wealth. Visitors no doubt felt that Baghdad deserved its title “City of Peace, Gift of God, Paradise on Earth.”

The city was beautiful, with many markets, gardens, and mosques. Domes and minarets (min uh RETS), slender towers of the mosques, loomed overhead. Five times each day, muezzins climbed to the tops of the minarets and called the faithful to prayer. Merchants sold goods from Africa, Asia, and Europe. The palace of the caliph bustled with activity." These sentences are emphasizing the fact that the Muslim empire was something truly to adore and admire.

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