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- Knowledge Eastern states to be quickly taken by the Arabs lively debate speed and ease of conquests, and people just giving up cities. Need to look at preceding period.
- Traditional view of easy capitulation to Arabs (not Islamicization) was Monophysitism (esp. Syria and Egypt) hostile and disaffected from Byzantine government glad to shed it yoke. Yet Chalcedonianism still strong in the east esp. in Palestine and Nestorinism in Persia and Syria. Other equally pertinent reasons.
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