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( 290 ) Semitic society from disintegration and established social unity and cohesion. Islam established its world hegemony by the sheer force of the Sword. Islam is the Religion of Fighting Semitism.
Darkness dawned over the European social order after the collapse of the Roman Empire. The European society
Lowest Ebb of was at its lowest ebb, materially, morally and European Culture intellectually, during the Eighth century A. D. The Christian Monastic order was the only burning light in Europe in this age. Small feudal lords with the assistance of Christian priests, who also sometimes became the feudal lords, consolidated the economic and social life of the people. No organised grand monarchy or empire existed in Europe. But one revolutionary event was beginning to penetrate Europe. He was Aristotle. Aristotle had separated Greek philosophy from the Greek religion. Aristotallian Greek Philosophy and Reason attracted the intellectuals of the disintegrating Christian Society.
Islam was the driving force of the age. It was extending its frontiers to the East into Bhārata; to Central Asia and to the West in Europe. Christian-Islamic conflicts in Europe increased. There were Christian crusades against the growing Islamic hegemony. The great Mongolian, Changez Khan and his successors kept a large part of Europe under their feet in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries A.D. West Asia and a part of Eastern Europe was under the Muslim feudal monarchs. The Muslim empires flourished in Bhārata. But a new social factor was beginning to rise in Europe which later spread over the whole world. The European feudal system was establishing organised monarchies on the one hand and the free common people were shaping their own destinies on the other, Industrial
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