Muslim Conquests: Eastern Roman Perspective DOCUMENTARY

Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of the Romans and the Eastern Roman Empire continues with a video in which we see what the perspective of the Byzantium was in regards to the Early Muslim Conquests, as we discuss intellectual and literary perspective, as well as, military, administrative, political, economic, cultural and mercantile responses.

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[Abu_Nasser_Al-Ghamdi]

It was a miracle that the Byzantines continued throughout these centuries while they had borders that were burning all the time, enemies from the north, south, east and west, in addition to the fact that their lands were not connected but rather scattered islands!
Although I am Arab, the steadfastness of the Byzantines throughout these centuries really deserves respect.

[Findinavia]

The quality of these videos is one of the reasons men think about the Roman Empire every day

[VoyageurCountry]

Kings and Generals makes history come alive

[roihanfadhil]

Next Suggestion: Muslim Conquest from Sassanid Perpective.

[pyrrhus]

And during the crusades both arabs and greeks saw the franks as barbarians

[mishmishitashan]

The Rashidun Caliphate's capital was Medina not Baghdad. It functioned as the caliphal capital during the early conquests and was later supplanted by Kufa, Damascus, Harran, and then Baghdad almost 130 years after the beginning of conquest.

Minor but strange oversight from a usually informative and well-sourced channel!

[maddogbasil]

*The Islamic conquests of that era must've been so mind-boggling for the average Mediterranean peasants*

*Imagine living in The Mediterranean for over a thosuand years, and all you've known is rome until a new civilization from right next door just takes over everything*

*even more strange was the religion, Christianity took centuries of work to eventually grow within the empire and the arabs simply took a couple decades for their religion to literally out-compete Christianity and much of the pagan world*

[SinningsValor]

Another great video by King's and General's. Keep up the good work! Im glad I've been a member of this channel for just over a year!

[kristiangustafson]

The decline of urban life in the Eastern Roman Empire began even under Justinian, with the first Plague pandemic. See Michael J Decker, "The Byzantine Dark Ages", 2016

[synthWizkid]

I really really love this channel. It's helping me through a tough time ❤

[Shahanshah.Shahin]

Although we don't have many Sasanian sources left about the Islamic conquest, we do have texts like the "Ballad of Shah Vahram, " a piece of Middle-Persian Zoroastrian literature from after the Islamic invasion (some scholars argue it was written very soon after the invasion). It represents the hopes of the Zoroastrian Iranians for the return of a messianic figure from India who would drive away the Muslims and restore the native religion to the land.
Additionally, the entire Sasanian court's exile to China, alongside Prince Peroz III, and the attempts he and his descendants made to regain the lost Empire over the next century are significant. Iranian independence movements, such as those led by Babak Khorramdin, Sunpadh, and Mardavij Ziyarid, briefly reclaimed half of Iran in the early 10th century. There are also accounts of the Zoroastrians fleeing to India from Khorasan during the Umayyad rule in Iran; a 16th-century source called "Qissa-i Sanjan" talks about their epic journey from Iran to India. I remember you did a video on Peroz III and the anti-caliphate alliance with the Tang five years ago, but a new one with extra details and updated imagery would be great to see.

[eafstudios]

Interesting video. Would love to see this channel do a series on the Byzantine-Sassanid War at some point.

[mahamudwarsame]

One of my favourite videos u explained and illustrated this soo beautifully

[momojafar]

Khalid ibn Walid (R.A) said: "I bring you men who desire death as ardently as you desire life."

[abdulhadizakkour]

Baghdad did not exist during the Rashidi period. It was established during the Abbasid period almost two centuries after the Rashidis

[mahedihasan]

So the Byzantines called that province Palestine too!

[noone]

This was absolutely fantastic! Kings and Generals are untouchable

[RndThg]

Just a small note. Sometimes you tend to to use arabs and Muslims to call the same group. Which is not technically 100 percent accurate as Islam is a lot wider than the Arabic culture.

[superyamky]

Finally a roman perspective on the muslim conquest

[apollosdomain]

Can you make a video on the short lived Gallo-Roman, Kingdom of Soissons.