The Spread of Islam By: Lucy V.

-Islam combined spiritual and secular power uner one ruler. This helped unify the warring tribes of the area. Islam expanded during the centuries after the Prophet's death.
-Ummah became a community that spread from Africa to hte Indonesia.
-Muhammad's non-violent takeover of Mecca occurred only two years before he died. Whe he died, a newly converted Qurayshite, Khalid ibn al-Walid, commanded a series of campaigns that within seven had claimed the entire Arabian Peninsula and Syria for Islam.