Islam emerged in the seventh century in what is today Saudi Arabia. The traditional account maintains that God revealed his will to Muhammad (AD 570?–632) in a series of revelations dictated by the angel Gabriel over roughly 20 years. These revelations, codified and put into writing after Muhammad’s death, compose the Qur’an, accepted by Muslims as the Word of God. The Qur’an is said to be God’s definitive revelation, the culmination of earlier revelations to numerous prophets, including Jews and Christians (called “People of the Book” in the Qur’an). Muhammad is said to be the last and greatest of the prophets.
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The answer to the first one is considerably and the answer to the second is virtually.
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D
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After the Vietnam War, Nixon visited China to develop relations with the People's Republic of China. This was one of the first tranquil interactions between Americans and communists. This meeting raised the Soviet Union's interest in detente or peace. Right after visiting China, Nixon visited Moscow where he and Brezhnev agreed on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), limiting the possibility of nuclear war. Nixon used his diplomatic negotiations in China to lead to detente with the Soviet Union.
Because Britain wanted to expand its manufactured goods market. In the eighteenth century, Britain traded English wool and Indian cotton for Chinese tea and textiles; however, when the Chinese demand weakened, Britain demanded other means of attracting trade with China. Britain realized it could make up the trade deficit with China by selling Indian opium into the Chinese market, making opium the most profitable and popular crop in world markets.
