PLEASE ANSWER I HAVE NO CLUE . BIG PROJECT GRADE
2007-06-07 11:50:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
You'll learn more if you look it up yourself.
2007-06-07 12:01:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since Charlamagne was crowned prior to the Crusades and I see no evidence that he warred with followers of Islam, I'm uncertain how there would be any reaction. Charlamagne was crowned just 200 years after Mohammed was born--thus not even 2 centuries after Islam was founded. Even though Islam spread throughout the mideast and northern Africa like wildfire, I can't see a convergence.
2007-06-07 12:04:56 · answer #2 · answered by Still reading 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before you start this "big project grade" learn that "Islams" is not a group of people.
2007-06-07 13:17:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Charlemagne even had contact with the caliphal court in Baghdad. In 797 (or possibly 801), the caliph of Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid, presented Charlemagne with an Asian elephant named Abul-Abbas and a mechanical clock, out of which came a mechanical bird to announce the hours."
"Charlemagne : Saracens and Spain" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne#Saracens_and_Spain
"802: [Abbasid Caliph] Harun [al-Rashid] gives two albino elephants to Charlemagne as a diplomatic gift."
"Harun al-Rashid : Timeline" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_al-Rashid#Timeline
2007-06-07 12:53:02 · answer #4 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋