The rise of Islam ushered in an entirely new era for the people of the Arabian Peninsula as early as the 7th century CE. Islam extended itself across the Middle East and then began its conquest of North Africa, reaching into Spain and Eastern Europe.  The 1200s saw Islam's spread into India as wel...

When talking about Indians who lived in North America, we actually refer to people who are called Natives. For a long time, they have been known as Indians because of a wrong belief of a very famous Italian explorer Christopher Columbus who said, that the Americas were the Indies\' lands. Today thi...