Rise of Islam Q and A
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WHAP Block 6 November 15, 2011 Chapter 8 Questions: The Rise of Islam Narrow Questions ****How did both the Sasanids and the Byzantines use the Arabs to form ?buffer zones? against their adversaries? The Sasanids and Byzantines referred to the Arabs, who were nomads before Islamic expansion, as ?barbaric? and ?uncivilized.? These derogatory names for the Arabs were used to create the buffer zones against their adversaries. How did the proclamation of Zoroastrianism as the official religion of the Sasanid Empire and Christianity as the same for the Romans ultimately pave the way for the emergence of an Islamic Empire?