The Importance of Islam in the Middle East

In the medieval period it was better to be a Christian or a Jew living under Islamic rule. Muslims didn't have this notion they needed to evangelize that they needed to convert everyone underneath them. The Jews in the Roman Empire were what was called a religio licta, a permitted religion. And so there is no need for an Islamic Renaissance because there's no Islamic Dark Age. Next time on Secrets of the Medieval World, the Renaissance and the Renaissance Men behind it, not just DaVinci.