Military expansion. The Rashidun Caliphate expanded gradually; within the span of 24 years of conquest, a vast territory was conquered comprising Mesopotamia, the Levant, parts of Anatolia, and most of the Sasanian Empire. Unlike the Sasanian Persians, the Byzantines, after losing Syria, retreated back to Anatolia.
1 And the nature of this reality again can neither be consistently represented as a fixed and hard substance nor as an unalterable something, but only as a fixed order of recurrence of continually changing events or impressions.
@flo looked for a way to describe âwhen we repeat something we already said, (in slightly different words)â¦â I think âpersistâ is a passable single word definition for this. Admittedly, to persist in an argument is not necessarily a bad thing. But to persist in an argument by constant repetition is not good.