After Muslim forces conquered the nations of "people of the book," they were:
a. not permitted to practice their religions among themselves.
b. violently persecuted as they formed the minority.
c. forced to choose between conversion to Islam and death.
d. not allowed to build new houses of worship.
d. not allowed to build new houses of worship.
Analysis:
a, c & b. Incorrect. Over time, most of the Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian communities shrank to shadows of their earlier sizes in the Middle East and North Africa, as second-class status, pressure for conversion to Islam, and migration out of the Islamic empire took their tolls.
d. Correct. After Muslim forces conquered the nations of "people of the book," they did not have the right to seek and accept converts from Islam, build new houses of worship, or sometimes even repair old ones.
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