Muh great Caliphate

>muh great Caliphate
>can't take a single city

*unsheaths scimitar*

nothin personnel... kid

>Takes 3 holy cities of Christianity
>Couldn't take the most fortified city at the time

Understandable.

They didn't know the Bulgars the fucking savages they were, would for once defend Constantople instead of mindlessly attacking it

Byzantine Greek fire...

Delet this

Why didn't they just invade Anatolia instead and weaken the Empire one step at a time?

Byzantium was a rotting corpse at this point, none-achievement

you cant just invade anatolia and just went one step at the time, there was the tarsus so when you do invade anatolia might as well do it with fuck huge armies, lots of food and go all the way up to constantinople

because implying they would succeed, the Byzantines were defeated in Anatolia only in 11th century

>Umayyads and Seljuks are the same
"History" and Humanities, everyone

How did Greek fire work? Is it true we can't replicate it today?

you know there was a reason the bumfuck sandnigger from arabia can reach all the way to constontinople right? and its not like they just lost half of their empires to the sandniggers in just 30 years

byzzzies are shit tier

This, it was basically beating up a dead horse or a cancer patient by the time it got to that stage. Wasn't really an accomplishment at all.

And WRE lost their entire empire within 100 years

Latins are shit tier

Greek fire was a Top Secret weapon. Nobody could constract something like this from 6th till the 9th century. It was working like a primitive ablaze and because the ''recipe'' was top secret we dont know how to recontstryct it. From 10th century the Greek fire was lost as a weapon propably because the recipe of construction was lost.

It was baiscally napalm

>From 10th century the Greek fire was lost
Nope

The Arabs used it against the Crusaders

Greek fire was a primitive ablaze especially used on battles between ships. Idiot.

Greek fire was a top secret byzantine weapon. Maybe the Arabs used something close to that but not exactly the same. There was no reason to maintain such a weapon if the enemy knew the recipe cause this could end up losing the advantage that the empire had. Greek fire was unique as it was it's recipe.Τhe others were just substitutes.

Arabs and Palestinian auxillaries used Napatha not Greek fire

Thanks

Ottomans aren't arab

>it doesn't count because you defeated us in the first place
Guess what happened in 1071

>needed cheeky Catholics to severely weaken them first
>still couldn't conquer it in time before they fucked off to Western Europe with all their art and science works.

What the fuck does that mean?