Answer:
D
Explanation:
Muhammad (creator of the islamic religion) had gained a substantial number of converts in Mecca, leading the city’s authorities, who had a vested interest in preserving the city’s pagan religion, to plan his assassination. Muhammad fled to Medina, a city some 200 miles north of Mecca, where he was given a position of considerable political power. At Medina, he built a model theocratic state and administered a rapidly growing empire. When Muhammad finally returned to Mecca he was a conqueror. During the next two and a half years, numerous disparate Arab tribes converted to his religion. By his death on June 8, 632 AD, he was the effective ruler of all southern Arabia, and his missionaries, or legates, were active in the Eastern Empire, Persia and Ethiopia.
