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🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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632 - 661 - This episode tells the story of the life of Muhammad and his struggles to follow his life's purpose to spread the word of Islam. We also tell the story of what the Islamic world did after the death of Muhammad and the success of their proliferation.
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0:00.0 | The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler. Volume 4, The Medieval World |
0:25.0 | Episode 1, The Rashidun Caliphate Oh, you know. Oh, A right. Arabia, the geopolitical region centered on the Arabian Peninsula, the largest peninsula on planet Earth. |
1:24.8 | Much of the peninsula is arid desert and generally difficult to settle due to a lack of fertility |
1:31.6 | of the land. Compare fertility of the land. |
1:33.5 | Compare this to the land north of the Arabian deserts, |
1:38.0 | where we encounter the fertile crescent, |
1:41.2 | including the heavily talked about lands of Mesopotamia and the Levant. |
1:48.1 | To the west of the Arabian Peninsula is the Red Sea, the waterway which has been an important trade link between the Mediterranean Sea |
1:57.0 | and the lands of South Asia and the Far East. |
2:01.0 | The Red Sea separates the Arabian Peninsula from the African lands of Egypt |
2:07.9 | with its rich and prosperous history by comparison. |
2:14.0 | To the south and to the east, the vast expanse of water, including the Arabian Sea and the |
2:20.9 | Indian Ocean. |
2:27.0 | Arabia didn't have a lot going for it, which is what makes this week's episode so amazing. |
2:34.0 | Settlements developed in Arabia and many were coastal. |
2:39.0 | The kingdoms which grew up were not really of any global significance and somewhat detached |
2:45.5 | from the many centuries of drama going on to its north such as the conflicts |
2:50.3 | between the earliest kingdoms and empires of the Middle East through to the many |
2:55.5 | confrontations between the Persians and the Europeans. |
3:01.2 | The earliest Arabs were mainly nomadic peoples without great military threat. |
3:07.0 | At the most, they were raiders and traders during ancient times and classical antiquity. |
3:16.0 | We have discussed ancient trade in previous episodes, |
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