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Because Arabia was a clan war society and supplied mercenaries to Byzantium and Persia, its fighters learned advanced military doctrine from the two empires.
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The central historical puzzle is how poor desert nomads defeated the Byzantine and Sassanian empires and conquered territory from Spain to India in less than a century.
Because Arabia was a clan war society and supplied mercenaries to Byzantium and Persia, its fighters learned advanced military doctrine from the two empires.
"the here's the roman empire as well as the sassanian persian empire and they both attack him sorry they both attack the muslims but..."
"Okay? So that's the first unique characteristic about the Arabian Peninsula at this time. These are open -minded, cosmopolitan people who are constantly absorbing..."
"Okay? So these are client states. All right? So that's the second thing. This is a war society. Okay? Who know how to fight...."
"...the Muslims are expanding throughout the world. They're conquering both the Sassanian Empire as well as the Roman Empire."
A source-grounded reading of Islam's rise as Jiang's first global revolution: a thin archive, a Moses-like prophet, a desert mistaken for backwardness, and a movement that fused religious devotion with revolt against debt, landlessness,...
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