Darius believed in Daniel's God, but he knew from all other things that it was impossible for someone to survive a night with lions. verse sixteen says, So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!”(NIV). thus, he believes, but does not know.
another point for you is this, verse eighteen says, Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.(NIV)
and later in verse 19 and 20, At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the lions’ den. <span> When he came near the den, he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?”(NIV)
and in the end, if you know how it goes, Daniel lives and goes on to see and record his visions.</span>
The Muslim Empire comprised the timespan in which three different Caliphates ruled:
The Rashidun Caliphate (632–661) which supposed the start of the Muslim Empire, established after the death of the Profet Muhammad. It was a period characterized by a quick military expansion, which took control over the following territories: the Arabian Peninsula including the Levant, the Transcaucasus region in the North, the Northern Africa area from Egypt to the current territory of Tunisia as the Western border and, finally, the Iranian plateau including parts of Central Asia and South Asia as the Eastern limit.
The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750). More conquest were achieved, and to the formerly mentioned ones, the following territories were annexed: the Transoxiana, Sindh, the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula (named Al-Andalus).
The Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258), was the third caliphate and established its central government in Kufa, located in current Iraq. In 762 the caliph Al-Mansur founded the city of Baghdad. The caliphate started to lost authority in the Western regions (Al-Andalus and Maghreb for example) but also reinforced control over territories on the East, for instance, the Mesopotamian domain.
This part sets out important ideas about government. It says that “all men are created equal.” And they have “unalienable rights,” rights that no one may take away. These rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It says that governments are set up to protect these rights.
