How did this little desert, this tiny sandy jewel, go so far

Maybe, but then God ditched them.

>>1885173
They mostly stole science from ancient Greeks.

>>1885173
You mean take so much from the world
I have never seen through all of history a people who's entire list of achievements were things done by other people that they claimed as theirs

>>1885173

Centuries of ruinous wars between the Byzies and the Persians left a power vacuum whihc the Muslims filled.

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They spent all their time fighting each other for centuries and thus got very good at fighting and killing, but not so good at doing anything that required coordination or planning.

Then Mohammed showed up and united them under one banner and one God and got them to stop killing each other.

Then they went forth and conquered, because they could.

>>1885173

You know Israel is north of your map, yes?

>>1885271
Which one of those in your pic is the arabier

>>1885317

#1 (Ansar warrior)

the guy on the far left

Ansar (lit. "helper") refers to the inhabitants of Medina who initially converted to Islam, invited Mohammed to their city and made him their leader, and followed him in his battles and expeditions, making up the bulk of his forces

>>1885173
Because ERA and Sasanid Persia was too weak after lot of wars, last Roman-Persian war continued 26 years, some historicans call this war World War of 7 century.

>>1885173
Its has a great location. India is next right there. So is Iran and Egypt. Big players in history.

>>1885173
>You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has listened to your affliction. He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen." The blessing that this child's father was promised was that Abraham's descendants would be as numerous as the dust of the earth. However, the promise would be to a son of Sarai; yet God would make of this child a great nation, who would be named Ishmael, because he was of the seed of Abraham. However God also said regarding Ishmael specifically that he will be a warrior; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.

>>1885191
You can't steal science you retard go back to /v/ or whichever shithole you came from.

>>1885967
USA steal atom technology from Nazis so it is pretty possible.

Many Arab tribes who took part in the Muslim conquests were already familiar with Roman and Persian civilizations thanks to their centuries of service to both empires as mercenaries.

It wasn't really just "hardy barbarian tribesmen" caming out of nowhere to conquer the world thanks to their unmatched manliness.

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>>1885173
>jews didn't become relevant until they started racemixing with europeans

>>1885303
>israel
>desert

monotheism is some crazy shit

>>1886573
You were worshipping a Jew long before that happened, goy