Charles the hammer

So after the Muslims conquered the Visigoths in Spain. But they wanted more than that so they went into the Franks and went to attack them. They were very proud and said they were like a wind that could not be stopped. But then they got stopped. The Franks in France asked there king to stop the Muslims. He said be of good cheer and went with a countless army of soldiers and went to attack the Muslims. The Muslims had gathered a lot of gold and other precious stuff and settled outside of the big city of the Franks. They wanted to conquer this city and get all of it's riches. The general of the Muslims saw that Charles was coming and was going to tell his men to drop all of their riches and go attack the Franks. But then he thought that they would rebel against him so he didn't do anything. So once they came close his army went to attack them and they fought all day and couldn't fight in the night because it was to dark. So they wanted until the first light of dawn and started fighting again but then they thought about their riches and went to protect them. The general tried to make them stay but they wouldn't. So the general got killed and once he was dead the other Muslims fled. Charles was then nicknamed Martel which means hammer in Latin. So Charles the Hammer because he stopped the Muslims.

Islamic invasion

So do you remember when Allah made people Islamic? Well he conquered a lot of places and made them Islamic some of those places were like North Africa, some of the Byzantine empire, Medina, and Mecca. But in Spain there were some people called Visigoths that were barbarians but now they were ex-barbarians. But there king died so they needed another king. The kings advisers said that a general or soldier named Rodrigo would be a good king, but the kings sons complained about this because they wanted to be king. But the advisers forced the people to have Rodrigo as their king. So the kings sons sent a message to the great fighter Tariq bin Ziyad. He was just a slave at first but then he became Islamic and became a soldier. Then he fought with such bravery that he was pushed up again and again until he became a famous general. So he took his army and went into Spain and took it over. But he did not make the dead kings sons king but he made himself king over Spain.

Spread of Islam

So Muhammad ruled Mecca and also some of the Arabian peninsula. But one day he felt tired and he layed down to rest and he never woke up! He was dead! The Islamic people were afraid, who would be their prophet and tell them the desires of Allah. But then Abu Bakr the friend of Muhammad said that he could be the prophet and the people relaxed a bit but not all the way. Abu Bakr was a good leader but he was not as strong as Muhammad he was thin and wore ragged clothes. He still sent armies to conquer other places and spread Islamic to those places. He was the first Caphir of the Islamic people. There were many other Caphirs and they conquered other places and they also conquered some of the Byzantine empire. That is how they spread Islamic by force do you think that is a good way to spread a religion, it's kind of like forcing people to do it when they don't want to I don't like that. The Caliphs had built a new capital for the Islamic empire. It's name was Baghdad. It was a good capital and it was a good trading place. They traded gems gold and food.