Presentation Summary

My presentation was about the conquests of the Muslim Empire. I went over all the major points. I went told them when the Muslim conquests began which was in 632 after the death of Muhammad. Muhammad had successfully spread the new religion Islam throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Now that the Arabian Peninsula was united under one religion, they could now fight together and spread their religion to new lands. Under the first four caliphs, the Muslim Empire spread through Egypt, and most of present-day Libya. They also managed to move the empire North into what is now known as the Middle East and Armenia. Then, under the new Umayyad caliph, they were able to expand the empire further west across the rest of North Africa and what is present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were also successful in taking control of southern Italy, and almost all of Spain. They also caused a great territorial loss to the Byzantine Empire and would eventually take down it's capital, Constantinople, and rename to what it's known as today, Istanbul. During the Muslim Empire's conquests,  three major empires the Sassanid, Persian, and Byzantine Empires all fell to the Muslim Empire.