035: The Arab Civil War & The Abbasid Revolution

Send us a textThe mighty Arab Caliphate had grown to become one of the largest Empires the world had ever seen, and they seemed to have come out of nowhere. Half of the Roman Empire, all of the Persian Empire, and large swaths of land in Africa and Asia were all under the control of the Umayyad Caliphate. But their lust for conquest and ruthlessness, and Arab Supremacy, made the people of the new empire uneasy with their current way of life. In the northern outskirts of the old Persian Empire...