Re: Awards and ANthems(and now some background) [OT] [HIST]

Chen-Song Qin  asked:

> > Nope.  There was one other nation great enough to treat with God's
> > Vice-Regent on Earth (now God's Vice-Regent among the Stars) as an
> > equal, and that was put paid to by Heraclius.  All others are
benighted
> 
> Was that before or after the battle of the Yarmuk and losing a third
of
> the Roman Empire?

A few years before. The Arabs were nothing but desert barbarians anyway
<g>

Indeed, had it not been for the long, wasting war between Heraclius and
Chosroes (II, I think) the Arabs would've had a *much* harder time to
get
out of their deserts at all :-/

Regards, 

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
- Hen3ry