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Byzantine enforcement of Holy Trinity orthodoxy generates wars, drives dissenting Christians toward Sassanid Persia and Arabia, and contributes to both Byzantine and Sassanid exhaustion.
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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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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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"Yeah. Okay. We'll talk about this later. Okay? But yeah, if you work in Silicon Valley, you are a materialistic person who is incapable..."
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"Okay? At the same time, the Byzantines, they are fighting the Sassanid Persia. Sassanid Persia. Okay? Egypt, the Levant, and this is Arabia. Okay...."
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"...Arabia is rising in energy, but the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid Persians are decreasing in energy. Okay? The Byzantines are fighting too many..."
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"once Muhammad comes into place and he unites the Arabian desert into a new community of followers, okay, they'll spread really quickly throughout the..."
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"...very quickly, because both of these empires, the Byzantines and the Sassanids, are exhausted. The main advantage of the Byzantines is they still have..."
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"They take Spain, they take Northern Africa, they conquer Persia, okay? It's a really rapid conquest. Because at this point in history, people are..."
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"...are great fighters. Because they're great mercenaries. Why? Because as the Sassanids and the Romans fight more and more, the Arabians are recruited in..."
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"...resistance, because there's so much anger, so much opposition towards the Sassanid Empire, as well as the Byzantine Empire. Plus, both empires are exhausted...."
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"...on they would fight against what is what we call the Sassanid Persian. empire. And so this was not a really sustainable empire. Internally,..."
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"...in the Byzantine Empire. They know exactly what's happening in the Sassanid Empire, even though most people don't know what's happening in the desert...."
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"They either go to the Sassanid Empire or they go to the Arabian Desert. Many Jews go to the Arabian Desert. Why? Because in..."
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"...of Jews here as well. You also have Zoroastrians from the Sassanid Empire who, again, want to practice their own personal faith."
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