The Abbasid Revolution // Overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate (717-750)

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  @HistoryTime · 7 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @rudolfnosek1748 · 7 years ago

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  @EpimetheusHistory · 7 years ago

  Fascinating video, love the amount of Geo-political detail

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  @DeExtinctionTV · 7 years ago

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  @theyoungottoman3533 · 7 years ago

  Fantastic video! Fun fact: the Umayyads once had to deal with a rebellion from an army they sent to deal with a rebellion - namely, the Peacock Army of Al-Hajjaj. The revolt was due to a mixture of Kharijite religio-political ideas and general disgruntelment.<br><br>The amount of revolts the Umayyad incurred during their rule (from the Berbers, the Khawarij, the Shi&apos;a and so on) and the underwhelming responses often betray the success that the Umayyads usually held when fighting exterior foes. Through the early sections of the Umayyad period, the Caliphate had more or less kept Byzantium on the defensive, conquered Iberia, Ifriqiya, the Berber tribes of the Maghreb, raided the Nubians, pushed into the Indus, pushed into the Kwarezm, more or less defeated the Khazars, managed to spread its naval capacity to the level that exceeded most powers at the time, including the Byzantines. However, the Umayyad often had great issues internally, especially with Kharijite and Shi&apos;a factions, mostly deriving from rebellions in Iraq and Africa.

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