Therefore, Islam’s religious and political authority was spread through the use of the sword. Carried out of Arabia by well equipped military forces, Islam quickly expanded through much of the Middle East. Byzantium and Persia, the area’s two major super-powers, were weak and exhausted from years of prolonged fighting with each other...
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Byzantium and Persia, the area’s two major super-powers, were weak and exhausted from years of prolonged fighting with each other. While Persia was completely defeated and absorbed into the Islamic Empire areas occupied by the eastern Byzantine Empire resisted passionately but were also ultimately defeated in 636 which resulted in the capture and control of Jerusalem by the Muslims in 638...
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