... to unite people, encourage trade, and expand the Islamic empire during this period, meanwhile Christianity withheld the West from expanding. Ultimately, the tolerance and acceptance of different ideologies and cultures and the encouragement of free thought created a sense of unity that was much more appealing compared to the restraints of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe which pushed outsiders to conform, and free thought to be ... repressed for Church theology, thus allowing the Islamic world to develop into the dominant group of the time. To compare the differences in how W...

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