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Jiang says the Byzantine and Sassanian empires looked strong but were weakened by war, plagues, civil wars, and social discontent, while the Arabs were stronger than they appeared but divided.
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Byzantine Decline
Jiang says the Byzantine and Sassanian empires looked strong but were weakened by war, plagues, civil wars, and social discontent, while the Arabs were stronger than they appeared but divided.
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"These are problems that have existed throughout human history. Why are there so many revolutions in Chinese history? Because of these two problems, right?..."
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"Okay? Second is, whenever you have large cities, you have the problem of plagues, right? Disease. Plagues. So there are these plagues called the..."
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