se. Not to mention story telling in front of the campfire. They had poetry about battles, desert, camels, horses, and love. In 500 A.D. they started a town called Makkah, which was fifty miles inland of the Red sea (3). Trade was mostly of animal products for weapons dates grains, spices, jewels ivory, silk, and perfumes. They had caravans travel there from as for china. Arabs had many business ties they were replacing family ties, and old tribal laws were not adequate Byzantine and the Persian armies were threatening to conquer them. The tribes had the same language, but they had no central government, or sense of unity, The Arabs searched for new beliefs.
             The prophet of Islam was Muhammad. He was born in Makkah in 570 A. D. . . He was orphaned at an early age and was adopted by his uncle. He worked as a caravan leader on a trade route. He was known to be honest and noble. His employer khadij'a ,a wealthy window age 40, let him take over her business and got married. He went to a cave outside the city in 610 A.D. to pray and fast revelation (vision) there. He was told to recite. "Recite in the name of your lord, the creator who created man from clots of blood. Recite! Your lord o the most bountiful one who by the pen has taught mankind things they didn't know.''(1) His second vision to rise and worn people. In 613 A.D. he preached to his family and friends that there was one god. That all that believed in him (Allah) is equal. The rich shared with
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