(December 22, 2013 at 4:37 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:(December 19, 2013 at 7:24 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:
Never did understand why the Persians gave ground to the Arabs / Saudis.
They didn't have a choice. Khalid was a tactical genius.
The Byzantines and Persians had spent the preceding decades fighting each other. The resultant blood-letting left both weak and enabled the emergence of another power.
As far as the size of the Persian army goes, remember that history is written by the winners and the winners always make their victory greater than it actually was.
