Alexander Zubarev Outline for Chapter V This chapter focuses partly on importance of nomadic tribes, the decline of all classical civilizations, and the rise of 3 religions, 2 of them major world religions. Nomads have connected major empires and encouraged trade almost all throughout human history. The silk routes were one of the most famous such trade routes. They connected Western China, Mediterranean, and even Western Europe. Many civilizations had to go far from their borders to …showed first 75 words of 1016 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1016 total…tide of the Crusades had turned, as Christians gained more converts and believers in the New World. Also, in the same year, reconquista happened, and Muslims were driven out of Spain. The moderate Muslim point of view is that Christians and Jews are "people of the book", while the radical point of view states that all those that don't believe in Allah are infidels and should be killed. Women and men were separated in prayers.