arab conquest

God's Empire: A Roman Late Antiquity TL Choosing the Imperial Brothers In the late June heat, the Apostate Emperor was stabbed by a spear while fighting off a Sasanian attack to take his retreating army in the rear. Carried back to camp by his troops, Julian would die with the knowledge that...

Ooc: for the sake of anyone new, the DB means double-blind, meaning we ask an alternate history question from the perspective of someone in an alt-history timeline. So where we ask "what if the south won the acw," people in that tl ask "what if the union won the second revolution." The POD is an...

Within a century of the death of Muhammad, the newly Islamized Arabs had managed to conquer vast territories. In the process, they had destroyed the Sasanian Empire, and if they'd been slightly luckier, they could very well have done the same to the Byzantine Empire. Now, of course, there are...