Quote Originally Posted by CaesarAugustus
That's just pathetic, I've lost all faith in everything Persian...
Not really. How do you best defeat an army of heavily armed and armoured cavalry? Light cavalry. The arabs pushed out of the desert with the exact weapons needed to bring the sassanids to their knees. Obviously there were factors, but the military weakness of the persian heavy horse was expertly utilised by the Arabic army.

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