how did the muslims come into contact with china, italy and greece?

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how did the muslims come into contact with china, italy and greece?

Answer 1

I can provide a partial reply to your question concentrating to Greece since I am not an expert on Italy and China matters.

The autochonus Muslims in the territory of Greece are mainly the Pomaks and some Roma groups.

The mass contact with Muslim people in Greece was effected during the Ottoman occupation (400 years) when a significant number of Muslims were transferred to Greece by the Ottomans thus increasing the muslim population. In the 17th and 18th centuries there were a number of Greeks who embraced the muslim faith.
The country's Muslim population decreased significantly as a result of the 1923 population exchange agreement between Greece and the new Turkish Republic, which also uprooted approximately 1.5 million Greeks from Asia Minor.

In 1923, under the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne, the Muslims living in Greece were required to immigrate to Turkey; whereas, the Christians living in Turkey were required to immigrate to Greece in an "Exchange of Populations".
The Muslims of Thrace and the Christians of Istanbul and the islands of Gökçeada and Bozcaada (Imvros and Tenedos) were the only populations not exchanged.
Today there is still a Muslim minority (Μουσουλμανική μειονότητα) which refers to an Islamic religious minority in western Thrace, a part of north-east Greece.
The fact that the Muslim minority in Greece remains while the Greeks from Istanbul and the islands of Gökçeada and Bozcaada have been forced to move to Greece by the Turkish government has been noted by human rights groups and riled up nationalistic sentiment in some corners of Greek society.

Further Muslims communities which had been transferred during the Ottoman occupation and remained in Greece reside in a few of the Dodecanese islands which between 1912 and 1947 were under the occupation of italy and as such they were not subjected to the exchange of the population between Turkey and Greece in 1923.

Although I described the most significant contact of Greece with muslim populations,we must specify that Greece came in contact with muslims for the first time through Byzance Empire which lasted 1000 years. Byzance empire was extended to a large number of Arab countries thus enabling the daily contact of Greeks with muslims as well as with a variety of other religional groups.

Answer 2

well first off the people of the ancient world were not stupid people they got around quite well. Ok well the Islamic religion stareted in 600AD and the Romans lost hold of that about 8 years before. The Romans, being the most powerful force in the world, may have had Islamics come with them into Italy. And with Greece the Ottomon Empire ruled over Greece for quite a long time. The Ottomon empire was the rulers of all Islam so that is how it got there. Also concidering how close Greece is to Italy I'm certin that Muslim Greeks went to Italy. With China... a might Islamic counqurer (the name I don't remember now) conquered all of modern Iraq, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Israel, India and had made his way into China. When he got into China after winning his first victory there he took the heads of all that he had killed and built a pyrimid to himself. When he did this he said "as there is one God in heaven there should be one ruler on earth." The man was killed by his own men later because of his brutality.

Answer 3

Italy and Greece: Well, Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire (until 1821), which gave them Islam. Italy, though from what I understand didn't have a relevant Islamic influence for quite some time, received it via the Ottomans.
China, on the other hand, most likely received it from trading with the various Islamic nations.

Answer 4

Trading routes, conquering, wars, diplomacy, traveling.

Answer 5

huh??? by plane!!...