Battle Of The Yarmuk (Modified)

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From the three documents provided, Documents A: Battle of the Yarmuk (Modified), document B: Treaty of Tudmir (Modified) and document C: Fred Donner, I think that the Early Islamic Empire expanded with war, truce, and rare peace. The Empire changed dramatically through the years.
The spread of Islam was from 632-661. The battle in al-Yarmuk was of the fiercest and bloodiest. According to Document A: Battle of the Yarmuk (Modified), “Among them was Hind, daughter of ‘Utbah and mother of Mu’awuvah ibn-abi-Sufyan, who repeatedly exclaimed, “Cut the arms of those non-Muslims with your swords!” This can mean that the Muslims took pride in the fight and fought bravely. With this pride in place, “By Allah’s help, some 70,000 of them [the Greeks} were put to death…” Through the battle, “they reached as far as Palestine, Antioch, Aleppo, Mesopotamia, and Armenia.” …show more content…

It is also similar to a cause and effect circumstances. “He and [each of] his men shall [also] pay one dinar every year, together with four measures of wheat, four measure of barley,…”
Document C: Fred Donner explains how “… conquest period of granting of gifts, which had been practices by Muhammad, became more regularized and eventually institutionalized.” People who revolted against these “…regimes now did so at the cost of losing the stipends that the regime provided.” This is some of the common knowledge of the Early Islamic Expansion.
The Early Islamic Empire was a place with Muslims, Muhammad, Abu Bakr, and other very significant phenomenonical things

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