Question

Timeline of Early Islamic Expansion:

610 - Muhammad received messages from Allah in a cave outside Mecca

622 - Muhammad and his followers fled Mecca

630 - Muhammad’s army conquered Mecca

632 - Muhammad died in Mecca

641 - Rashidun Caliphate’s armies conquered Syria from the Byzantine Empire

642 - Rashidun Caliphate’s armies conquered Egypt from the Byzantine Empire

651 - Rashidun Caliphate’s armies conquered the Sasanian Empire (Persia/Iran)

715 - Umayyad Caliphate’s armies conquered Spain

732 - Battle of Tours, Franks defeated the Umayyad Caliphate’s invasion of France

4. Which conclusion is best supported by the timeline?
(1 point)

Islam moved into new areas as the Muslim armies conquered those areas.

Islam expanded by using trade networks to send missionaries into new areas.

Islam expanded rapidly across the territory of the Byzantine empire but the Sasanian empire stopped the expansion of Islam.

Islam expanded peacefully across the territory of the Byzantine and Sasanian empires without replacing the existing governments.

Answer 1

Islam moved into new areas as the Muslim armies conquered those areas.

The timeline lists a series of military conquests (Syria, Egypt, Persia, Spain) and a military defeat at Tours, supporting expansion by armed conquest rather than peaceful missionary or trade-driven spread.