Respuestas al mensaje #91,194

I'm sure the promise of rape, loot, and glory was a major motivator of those early expansions. Being a soldier in an up and coming empire was very...

Firstly, because they were in the middle of an area populated by other Arabs, who were also garbage at war. The playing field was level. Second...

To add to what others have said about them following good intelligence to strike when the iron was hot, there were a lot of great Arab commanders...

So the sassanids were peak exhaustioned, corrupt, dysfunctional and they didn’t face a whole fuckton of pushback in the Sahara. When they crossed...

They weren't inbred yet. Along with what everyone else said, the Romans fought those early battles (e.g. Egypt and Syria) like total retards...

Egypt & Syria - The early Caliphs were supported by Miaphysites/Oriental Orthodox, a sect of Christianity considered heretical by the Chalcedonian...

there's a reason people still believe it had to be divine intervention