>reading up on The Battle of YarmukHe had ONE JOB.
>>24951816He wasn't even there for it. It was three separate armies conducting a campaign in tandem.
>>24951816Judgement from Providence for monophysitism. Syria perdita est.
>>24951824>God initiated the Muslim takeover of half the world
>>24951816I'm not saying I fully believe in the "Phantom Time Hypothesis" or whatever, but it's very clear to me that all history from this period is very unreliable, and the only reasons historians generally accept all these narratives of Roman decline and Islam's rise is because it's convenient for them.
>>24951831>because it's convenient for (((them))).
>>24951830When you consider that they only took over the Ortho portions of it... kind of?The Catholics successfully battled them back, maybe that's a sign of God's favor.
>>24951816Unironically if this clown didn't get into power and the Sassanids ended the Roman Empire in that war Islam might not even be a thing.
>>24951831>but it's very clear to me that all history from this period is very unreliablePretty much all of history prior to the invention of the print is very unreliable and based on a few propagandists hired by the elites. There's whole damn centuries where we have zero information on what even happened!
>>24952251But then we wouldn’t have had his kino comeback against the Persians, thus making history much more boring and less based.