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The rise of Arab power sparked by Jewish persecution and enabled by exhausted Byzantines and Sassanids.
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Arab revolution
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Jiang identifies persecution of Jews and the struggle over Jerusalem as the spark of the Arab revolution, with Jews backing Persia to regain the city before Byzantine-backed Christians retaliate.
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"So the major event that sparks the Arab revolution is the persecution of the Jews, okay? So, Alan, can you read please?"
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"Okay, so the Jews want to return to Jerusalem. Remember, the Romans kicked the Jews out of Jerusalem. So they make a deal with..."
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"The capture of Jerusalem was interpreted by a Jewish writer in a messianic context. Sacrifices may even have been renewed on the Temple Mount...."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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