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In the year 570 CE, a child by the name of Muhammad is born in the Arabian city of Mecca. Sixty-two years later, he dies, and upon his loss of life, the beliefs that he founded, Islam ("obedience to the main one God"), dominates the traditional western one half of the Arabian Peninsula. By the finish of the first millennium CE, four hundreds of years after the loss of life of Muhammad, Islam has grown to dominate traditional western Asia, north and east Africa, the Levant, and the Iberian Peninsula. The Holy Lands are lost to Christianity, and Christian Europe is under siege. Folk tales start to circulate - their roots obscure, but first mentioned in historic text messages about the 12th hundred years CE - of your lost Christian kingdom in the East, the Kingdom of Prester John. There resides the patriarch of Saint Thomas, who proselytized in the Orient. Later, in the 15th hundred years, under the impetus of the Portuguese King Henry the Navigator, Portuguese missionaries and navigators enter in the Indian Sea from the south and, creeping northward up the east seacoast of Africa, notice ever more substantive tales of your Christian kingdom lost in the abdomen of Islam. Because they enter upon the seacoast of Somalia, rivalling in a growing trade in slaves and platinum with Arabs of the peninsula, they become progressively interested in the foundation of this tale, in part to fulfil the centuries-long imagine discovering the Kingdom of Prester John, but also in part to secure the alliance of your Christian power contrary to the push of Islam.
