>muh great Caliphate >can't take a single city

File: Zonaro_GatesofConst.jpg (1MB, 1200x1525px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1200x1525px

*unsheaths scimitar*

nothin personnel... kid

>>2670760
>Takes 3 holy cities of Christianity
>Couldn't take the most fortified city at the time

Understandable.

>>2670760
They didn't know the Bulgars the fucking savages they were, would for once defend Constantople instead of mindlessly attacking it

File: Hehehe.jpg (10KB, 276x183px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 276x183px

Byzantine Greek fire...

>>2670772
Delet this

File: Car lights.gif (199KB, 500x375px) Image search: [Google]

199KB, 500x375px

Why didn't they just invade Anatolia instead and weaken the Empire one step at a time?

>>2670772
Byzantium was a rotting corpse at this point, none-achievement

>>2670788
you cant just invade anatolia and just went one step at the time, there was the tarsus so when you do invade anatolia might as well do it with fuck huge armies, lots of food and go all the way up to constantinople

>>2670788
because implying they would succeed, the Byzantines were defeated in Anatolia only in 11th century

>>2670802
>Umayyads and Seljuks are the same
"History" and Humanities, everyone

How did Greek fire work? Is it true we can't replicate it today?

>>2670802
you know there was a reason the bumfuck sandnigger from arabia can reach all the way to constontinople right? and its not like they just lost half of their empires to the sandniggers in just 30 years

byzzzies are shit tier

>>2670789
This, it was basically beating up a dead horse or a cancer patient by the time it got to that stage. Wasn't really an accomplishment at all.

>>2670817
And WRE lost their entire empire within 100 years

Latins are shit tier

Greek fire was a Top Secret weapon. Nobody could constract something like this from 6th till the 9th century. It was working like a primitive ablaze and because the ''recipe'' was top secret we dont know how to recontstryct it. From 10th century the Greek fire was lost as a weapon propably because the recipe of construction was lost.

>>2670814
It was baiscally napalm

>>2670828
>From 10th century the Greek fire was lost
Nope

The Arabs used it against the Crusaders

>>2670831
Greek fire was a primitive ablaze especially used on battles between ships. Idiot.

>>2670841
Greek fire was a top secret byzantine weapon. Maybe the Arabs used something close to that but not exactly the same. There was no reason to maintain such a weapon if the enemy knew the recipe cause this could end up losing the advantage that the empire had. Greek fire was unique as it was it's recipe.Τhe others were just substitutes.

>>2670841
>>2670865
Arabs and Palestinian auxillaries used Napatha not Greek fire

>>2670899
Thanks

>>2670772
Ottomans aren't arab

>>2670789
>>2670819
>it doesn't count because you defeated us in the first place
Guess what happened in 1071

>>2670772
>needed cheeky Catholics to severely weaken them first
>still couldn't conquer it in time before they fucked off to Western Europe with all their art and science works.

>>2670842
What the fuck does that mean?