Which of the following best describes why islam is an important religion in many parts of northern africa today? a. the byzantine empire refused to trade with africans, allowing muslim traders to control the region. b. sharia law required muslim empires to conquer new regions and convert their residents to islam. c. islamic caliphates spread islam throughout the region during the postclassical period. d. only people who converted to islam were allowed to hold jobs.

The correct answer is C. Islamic caliphates spread Islam throughout the region during the postclassical period.

In Historical studies, the post-classical period is the name for the period after the fall of the Roman Empire at the end of the 5th century AD. Islam emerged as a major religion in the Arabian peninsula at the beginning of the 7th century and it rapidly spread throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond. The reason why it extended so fast was that Islam was organized in a central Islamic empire called Caliphate, which was in charge of spreading the religion through preachers and mainly through the conquest of new territories.

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these are the geographical features of the gupta empire.

1)it inherited the land owned by the mauryan empire.

2)one obvious difference between the two empires is that the gupta empire was smaller that the mauryan.

3)the gupta empire is located in the northern region of the subcontinent underneath the himalayan and hindu kush mountains.

the gupta empire, marked by extensive inventions and discoveries that contributed to hindu culture, in subjects such as science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.

this period was also known as the golden age of india

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