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Nestorians preserve the idea of Jesus as human messenger rather than God and spread east into Persia, Arabia, and the Middle East after persecution.
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Arabia
Arabia becomes the energetic open center because it is poor, mercenary-trained, trade-connected, and exposed to Jews and Christians waiting for a Messiah.
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Arabia becomes the energetic open center because it is poor, mercenary-trained, trade-connected, and exposed to Jews and Christians waiting for a Messiah.
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Arabia matters because it is a trade and cultural crossroads linking India, Muscat, Mecca, Egypt, the Mediterranean, and empires that Romans struggle to control.
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Jewish defeat and expulsion from Jerusalem intensify messianic expectation and send Jews into Arabia, where Muhammad can be interpreted as the awaited Messiah.
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Jewish messianic belief, meshed with Arab pagan belief in Arabia, is presented as a foundation for the modern belief of Islam.
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Borderlands are intersections of empires, such as Mongolia for China and Arabia for Byzantine and Sassanian empires.
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Jiang says Arabia's religious tolerance gathered unusually smart Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians whose expertise later helped the Arab military machine.
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He ends with a causal bridge to the next lecture: people who still value exploration, curiosity, intuition, imagination, and faith flee eastward, especially to Arabia, helping give birth to Islam as a challenge to Augustine and the Catholic Church.
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"...to the Middle East, they went to Persia, they went to Arabia, where they spread the message of Jesus, they taught Jesus as a..."
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"And so, the Jews escape into Arabia. Okay? And at the same time, the Jews want to return to Jerusalem. Right? Now, what's interesting..."
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"...Judaism. Okay? And both preach the coming of the Messiah. So, Arabia is rising in energy, but the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid Persians..."
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"Now, the thing about the Jewish tradition is, they believe that when they're most persecuted, when all hope is lost, the Messiah will come..."
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"...need to understand is that even though we don't really discuss Arabia a lot, it's a very important part of the world throughout history,..."
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"...as the Romans persecuted the Jews, the Jews go escape into Arabia. Because the Romans don't like sand, okay? The Romans, what they're really..."
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"Okay, so this is almost like the Bible, where the Jews were kicked out of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, and the Temple was burned..."
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"Okay, right. So the Jews take over Jerusalem, and they want to rebuild their temple. And the Christians are angry because they think, this..."
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"Jews were expelled from Jerusalem and were not allowed to settle within the Three Mile radius, a general massacre of the Jewish population ensued...."
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"Okay, so this is Wikipedia, okay? All right, so the first thing that Muhammad's going to do is announce the concentration of Medina, which..."
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"...against the Romans. And while they were in the desert of Arabia, they were interacting with the local Arab pagans. And in this action,..."
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"...Okay? So Mongolia is the borderland of the Chinese Empire. Right? Arabia is the borderland of the Byzantine and the Sassanian Persian Empires. Okay?..."
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