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Byzantine-Sassanid wars exhaust both empires while transferring wealth and military technique to Arabs and India, enabling Arab rise.
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Slave trade profitability depended on religious boundaries: Muslims and Christians could not enslave fellow believers, while pagan Vikings could supply enslaved pagans to both Byzantines and Arabs.
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Slave trade profitability depended on religious boundaries: Muslims and Christians could not enslave fellow believers, while pagan Vikings could supply enslaved pagans to both Byzantines and Arabs.
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"...So there's a lot of conflict between the Roman Empire, the Byzantines, and the Sassanians as well, okay? There are lots and lots of..."
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"...important. The people who really drove the slave trade were the Byzantines and the Arabs. And there was always demand from these two cultural..."
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"...Vikings basically enslaved other pagans and sold them to both the Byzantines and the Arabs. Okay? And look, look, the slave trade, it has..."
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"So, these two powers are the Byzantine Empire as well as the Abbasid Caliphate, okay?"
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"...simple. You have these three powers in Eurasia. You have the Byzantines and you have the Abbasids, okay? Byzantines are Christian. The Abbasids are..."
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"...okay? Modern -day Ukraine, the Khazar Empire. Then you have the Byzantines and you have the Abbasids. And the Khazars saw themselves as equal..."
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"...It's shown by the fact that since the rule of Justinian Byzantine law threatened severe punishments for the attempt to convert Christians to Judaism..."
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"also brought with them Byzantine arts and crafts superior methods in agriculture and trade and the square Hebrew alphabet."
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"...did the Khazars wanted their own religion that was distinct from Byzantines and the Abbasids but they also wanted the skills, the knowledge the..."
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"...a new place he calls Constantinople okay which now becomes the Byzantine Empire okay and there was an Empire which and there was an..."
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"...I want to talk about Constantine, and the rise of the Byzantine Empire. So, Constantine is, what he does, that's very important, is that..."
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"...series of wars within the Roman Empire because Constantine and the Byzantine Empire is going to enforce this orthodoxy onto every Christian church and..."
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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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