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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3608661, member: 26302"]This was before the Arab invasions. The Sassanian were on the verge of completely conquering the Byzantines. They took over Egypt, the Levant, all the middle east, and had Constantinople surrounded. Then Khusro II made a fateful error, ordering the killing of the general leading the invasion, fearing he was gaining too much power. Unfortunately, he asked the general's cousin to do it, the cousin told the general, and promptly turned around and killed Khusro II. This shattered Persian power, allowing the Arab invasions.</p><p><br /></p><p>The entire area would have been different. The arabs would never had been successful against the Persians, and we would live in a world where the Persians and Zoroastriism was the dominant middle ages civilization and religion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3608661, member: 26302"]This was before the Arab invasions. The Sassanian were on the verge of completely conquering the Byzantines. They took over Egypt, the Levant, all the middle east, and had Constantinople surrounded. Then Khusro II made a fateful error, ordering the killing of the general leading the invasion, fearing he was gaining too much power. Unfortunately, he asked the general's cousin to do it, the cousin told the general, and promptly turned around and killed Khusro II. This shattered Persian power, allowing the Arab invasions. The entire area would have been different. The arabs would never had been successful against the Persians, and we would live in a world where the Persians and Zoroastriism was the dominant middle ages civilization and religion.[/QUOTE]
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