The drought on Arabian Peninsula laid a way to development Islam

Researchers from Basel universities in Switzerland showed as climate change can change a course of world history on the example of Islam emergence. Let's remind that today Islam — the world religion second for number after Christianity. And thus the youngest: Islam arose at the very beginning of the VII century in the Southern Arabia, in the territory modern Saudi Arabia. Authors of work attentively studied the period of history of Arabian Peninsula preceding this event. Scientists came to a conclusion that political excitements, war and a drought created ideal conditions for distribution in...