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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (162586)5/19/2005 4:16:53 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
More importantly, most communities or at least regions were self sufficient.

False. There was a LOT of trade in the Roman Empire. Just for one obvious example, Italy from the first century ce onwards was heavily dependent on grain shipments from North Africa, which was the bread basket of the Empire.

It ended nearly 800 years of war with the Persian Empire. Overlay the map of Persian Empire on top of the Islamic lands and you'll see little difference

By definition it ended Byzantine-Persian wars, and began Byzantine-Ummayid wars. To say that the swift loss of Syria, the Levant, Egypt, the Magreb and Spain were somehow supposed to be helpful to the empires that lost them is ridiculous. The Roman Empires were no more "helped" than the Sassanid Empire was.
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