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here's exact date and time when it will break free Persian and Arab Conquests: The Final Blow The final blow to the Eastern Roman Empire came with the Persian and Arab conquests. The loss of ...

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We’ve been looking at the way the kingdom of God that Jesus proclaimed was the development of perhaps the central theme of ...

The Seleucid Empire, founded by one of Alexander ... erected it to commemorate a Roman victory in the Persian Wars in A.D. 233. Businessmen in the boondocks often flattered their Roman overlords ...