Differences Between Byzantine And Islamic Cultures

Evidently, the Byzantine and Islamic cultures are divergent in terms of their own civilizations, including their religions, which constitutes in influencing their clash. Before the clash between the two cultures, the Byzantine was viewed as the most potent and successful ruler in the world, controlling a vast amount of land near the Mediterranean and defeating its biggest competition, the Persians. Considering how elite the Byzantine was perceived, how could they fall to such a small civilization in the Islamic culture? When Prophet Muhammad invited the ruler of the Byzantine empire to accept Islam, this ultimatum basically stated that if the Byzantine civilization does not accept Islam, they will pay the consequences for their sin and be punished by the Holy God, leading to the clash between the two (Kunselman, 2012). Overall, the conflicting attitudes in the cultures

The Fourth Crusade is a notable time in history in which a similar act is portrayed, influencing a clash between the Christians and their own civilization. In the Fourth Crusade, the rulers of Europe were asked to participate in taking Jerusalem away from the Ayyubids in a different style by coming up from Egypt to Jerusalem. Although, in order to successfully sail their route, they needed help from Venice, a great sea power, to get enough ships to sail, but did not have enough money. Since they did not have enough money, the Venetians informed them they would have to fight the Zara’s, who were Christian (The Fourth Crusade, n.d.). Overall, the Crusaders and Zara’s, who were both Christian in essence to their civilization, clashed because of the Crusaders desire to get ships, but could not, because of their absence of money. The Crusaders did not care about their civilization, but with the only focus on repaying some way in order get to get the ships by even clashing with their own