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The complaint is that these delimiters are really only meaningful for Western Europe - the delimiting events both happen in Italy. One of the running themes of
by karatinversion 3y ago
The complaint is that these delimiters are really only meaningful for Western Europe - the delimiting events both happen in Italy. One of the running themes of early medieval Arab history is, after all, wars with the (eastern) Roman empire. So it's a bit like talking about Elizabethan Turkey, or Warring States-era Brazil.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoThe fall of the Roman Empire basically allowed the Islamic Empire to exist. Even if Muhammad had arisen while the Roman Empire still existed he would have been limited to the greater part of the Arabic peninsula. https://imgur.com/bHLF70L https://imgur.com/bHLF70L
- karatinversion 3y agoPerhaps I can interest you in this map of the Roman Empire from 565AD, sixty years before the Muslim conquests: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4KJUSTINIAN.png https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4KJUSTINIAN.png
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoVery nice. The Romans were no longer dividing Iraq in half, thus severing Persia from Arabia.