The realationship between Christianity and Islam is that Muhammad told his people to respect and treat those people the way they would treat members of their own religion. The relationship that showed up between Christianity and Judism is that Christianity came from it. Also Muhammad told his people that they should treat Christians and Jews with the same respect as they would treat the people of the same religion.

chapter 8 notes

-Most peoples' religions were polytheistic and consisted of them believing in many gods.
-Makkah was a prosperous city due to trade with Yemen, Syria, and Africa.
-Many people (Arabs) lived in the desert in small tribes. Tribes had a tendency to launch fights on one another.
-Although they lived in various places throughout the peninsula, they connected through Arab poetry and singing about the beauty of their land.

-He sent to live with nomads in the desert. Then he came back to the city and herded sheep and goats and then began trading.
-He became a merchant when he met Khadijah and married her at age 25. he continued to be a merchant for the next 15 years after she started him off with simple trading and selling.
-In 610 C.E., Muhammad went to pray in a cave and that is where he received a visit from the angel Gabriel.

-In 613 C.E. he began trying to preach and spread his teachings, or the religion of Islam. people called him a liar and tortured his followers and later started a boycott against him.

The Qur'an was the first thing to be written down that really outlined the way Muslims were told to practice their faith. The Qur'an is the guide to Islam like the bible is he guide to Christianity. Both serve similar purposes and each religion could not exist without these two very important things leading the way. The Qur'an is necessary for the survival of this religion and it also holds the most information on the religion itself.

Muhammad asked the Muslims to show respect for the Christians and Jews because all three derived from Abraham and he wanted to respect the ties and bonds of brotherhood that all three different religions shared.

coastal plains

Most coastal plains are found five to forty miles inland and some end with jagged cliffs like this one.
Frankincense and myrrh are made by collecting the tree sap from the few trees located on coastal plains.
Some coastal plains around the Arabian Peninsula have natural harbors that form just like this one.
When crops are grown on coastal plains dams are usually built in order to help create irrigation systems to evenly distribute the water among the plants.

MOUNTAINS

The mountains of the arabian penninsula are parallel to the red sea and continue to get higher in altitude as they continue towards the cities. The mountains cause the desert to be very dry and get no rain fall. The arabian people use the mountains as farmland by putting terraces into the side of them. A lot of people who live on the arabian peninsula live in the mountains because it has fertile ground and a good climate for human.

DESERT

The Arabian Desert covers almost the entire arabian pennisula. Almost thought of to be impossible to cross it has still served throughout history as a passage way between the middle east and north africa. In the summer the desert has less than fifteen percent of humidity also during the summer temperatures can get up to over one hundred and twenty degrees farenhight.

Oasis

Oasis' are random places in a desert where vegetation is able to grow. Some trees and bushes may grow around an oasis letting travelers rest in its shade and enjoy its cool water. The water comes from a deep well underground and sometimes shows up on the surface.

INDIA NEWS

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