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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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Religious Liberation
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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Arab conquest succeeds rapidly because Christians and Jews thirst for religious liberation and the Byzantine and Sassanid empires are exhausted, leaving only Constantinople safe.
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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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"that the Arabians, the Arabs, are being exposed to new religions, and that's during Christianity as well as Judaism. Okay? And both preach the..."
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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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"...Arabian desert is energized. People are energetic because people thirst for religious liberation, okay? The Christians, the Jews all unite behind Muhammad. And very..."
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"...history, people are just sick of empires, and they're looking for religious liberation, okay? And over time, but over time, as Muhammad dies, the..."
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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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