french military victories

[Spiffor]

While I laughed at LaRusso's caption, I failed to see the humor in the Sten Sure's post. Xenophobic slur it is, undoubtedly.

[Sten Sture]

My apologies, I thought it was obviously satirical.

[Spiffor]

Apologies accepted Sten. Actually, I was rather referring to Drake's statement on GePap's humor (sure, Drake admitted he is bent towards bad taste )

[Imran Siddiqui]

such a fine civilization, lost.

Civilizations rise and fall. It happens.

[Ramo]

However the plauges had a lot more to do with the collapse of the Empire of Justinian and the slav invasions of the Balkans than the Arab invasion, which probably would have been beaten back or at least contained it wasn't for the decades of wars with the Sassanids. And then there's the Monophylitism of the Syrian and Egyptians which didn't make them all that loyal to the Empire...

But the theory that plague didn't play that significant part in the conquests doesn't explain Arab conquests in Western North Africa and Spain very well. I agree that they wouldn't have made it if were not for the Monophysitism of Egypt and Syria, though.

[Bosh]

But the theory that plague didn't play that significant part in the conquests doesn't explain Arab conquests in Western North Africa and Spain very well.

Well it does sort of, the collapse of the Justinian Empire allowed a decentralized Goth kingdom to take over Spain that never had that firm root since the regime was Arian (IIRC) while the population was Catholic. Similarly, the war with Persia lead to the stripping of forces from Western North Africa (Heraclius took the North African army to coup the Empire when he took over).

[axi]

I love discussing with history students!

If I weren't an engineer, I would have been a historian, for sure.

[MJW]

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