Tactics used in Arab Conquests of the Islamic Empire

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firstly the Middle East is land of quite harsh and contrasting terrain you have substantial deserts huge deserts in the case of Saudi Arabia and the Sahara in Iran many of them bigger than Western Europe and also many major mountainous ranges such as the Hindu Kush in Afghan well given that the terrain is very difficult in many cases the Arabs didn't want to have to March up mountains and through deserts to conquer certain groups so yes they devised whole repertoire of means for getting the agreement of these peoples to leave them alone one was tax exemption it's quite popular one inevitably always is others are simply to agreements to respect the life property and customs of people this is actually very ancient form of agreement which in the Middle East which goes back it's used by the Romans it's used actually by numerous people like the aans and the syrians as well so it's got very long tradition they also allow certain groups that were perceived as very tough and Hardy like the Kurds and the damis who were in the mountains around the Caspian SE to provide military service instead of payment of taxes and instead of having to submit to Islam secondly they had lot of problem in holding the community together they fight two civil wars in very quick succession in the 7th century and two further ones in the next Century the more Arab identity of the core of the fighters manages just to hold things together gradually though the religion of Islam is developed and becomes able to bind quite br broad Community which now starts to include more and more non Arabs and so over time this becomes the Jael for society and allow it to continue forward until today