08.2 The Battle of Yarmouk 636 AD, Part 2
A History of Europe, Key Battles
Carl Rylett
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🗓️ 22 June 2014
⏱️ 31 minutes
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The Rise of Islam in the 630’s threatened the existence of two ancient superpowers - the Persian and Roman Empires. In 636 AD the decisive battle took place between the Arabs led by Khalid ibn al-Walid and the Byzantine/Roman Empire of Heraklius- the Battle of Yarmouk.
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| 0:47.3 | Key Battles |
| 0:49.3 | The Battle of Yarmouk Part 2 of. In the early 7th century, the Eastern Roman Empire |
| 0:59.1 | fought a bitter conflict with the neighbouring Persians. The Emperor Heraclius, thanks to a stunning |
| 1:04.7 | campaign across the Middle East, forced the Persians to give up all the territory they had acquired. |
| 1:11.5 | Both sides were exhausted. |
| 1:13.9 | They'd lost many men and depleted their treasuries. |
| 1:17.6 | In addition, Persia sank into a civil war, in which numerous individuals fought each other for the throne. |
| 1:24.3 | Both Romans and Persians were probably too embroiled in these struggles |
| 1:28.1 | to notice an extraordinary series of events taking place just to the south in Arabia. |
| 1:35.3 | There has survived a vast amount of religious, secular and archaeological evidence for the 7th century from numerous sources. |
| 1:46.9 | Roman, Persian, Muslim, |
| 1:53.7 | Western European and Chinese. However, the period suffers greatly from the lack of a standout contemporary historian of the calibre of, say, Tacitus. From the Roman side, we rely on a few hints in poems and chronicles, and a handful |
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