wtf was their problem?

>661-750
not even lasting a century

How in the world did it spread so fast? HOW!?

>>1860716
It's not hard when people are sick and tired of the former rulers and their shitty wars and taxations wanting something fresh and hip.

>>1860693
>Umayyads
It's in the name man. They combined the power of meme magic and ayylmaos.

Tbh the Byzantines were shit. They didn't have the capital to deal with them after they made a spree of bad decisions.

>>1860703
To be fair, they were a successor state to a caliphate that started in 632, and they had their own successor state that stayed strong until like the mid 800s.

>>1860799
These weren't umayyads, the bani umayya (representing pre-islamic stuff) just conquered and therefore arabized the maghreb (north africa) and part of khorasan, the rest was already conquered by the rashidun (specifically umar). What a good these bunch of pagans got rekt

>>1860716
Because much of the map is colored green for the sake of coloring a map. The early Caliphate wasn't that extensive, and instead was a series of garrison colonies who made ad hoc alliances with local tribes and aristocrats. The garrisons in turn included some important families who had their own alliances with other Arab families, the most important faction of which was the one led by the caliph.

>>1860716
Allah on their side

>>1862757
YA ALLAH~!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUmqKh0spNw

>>1860693
Too bad the vast majority of that is empty meaningless desert.

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>>1860716
Because everyone else near them were sucking so bad.

Byzantium was suffering from disease in 6th century, and Monophysitism and Orthodox are constantly fighting each other. One of the reasons why Syrians and Egyptians welcomed muslims.

The Sassanids are exhausted from too much military spending and internal struggles.

The Visigoths were going through civil war and disputes between nobles. And some nobles actually sided with Arabs

TLTR:[spoiler]Allah cursed Muslim's enemies[/spoiler]

>>1860703
The dynasty didn't last a century. This territory remained arab land for a while longer.