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2. Read pages 136-143 and answer the following questions
 * 1) How did the death of Muhammad lead to the Expansion of Islam?
 * 2) What were the motivations for Islamic conquest?
 * 3) How were the Umayyads able to defeat their adversaries?
 * 4) What caused the major division in Islam?
 * 5) What was the extent of the Islamic Empire under the Umayyads?
 * 6) How were people of the book treated under the Umayyads?
 * 7) Explain gender structures under the Umayyads
 * 8) What factors led to the decline of the Umayyads?