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Volume 15What do you think the world would have looked like if the Byzantines won at Yarmouk?
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TheArchVillager asks on Discord, What do you think the world would have looked like if the Byzantines won at Yarmouk?
Honestly, I don’t think the world would be that much different if the Byzantines had won. The Byzantine Empire was in a very long, slow decline, and Islam was on the rise in 636.
If, for whatever reason, the Byzantines had won that particular battle, it wouldn’t have changed the overall trend of what was happening.
Instead of the battle of Yarmouk, it would probably be some other battle that we would remember.
Individual battles like Yarmouk often punctuate much larger trends. The battles usually are not the trend itself. There are exceptions, like the Battle of Gaugamela, but those are not the norm.
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