The army sacked Constantinople.
The Arabs expansionist movement started with the Arabs defeating the Byzantines at the <em>Battle of Yarmouk</em> - in August 636 along what is today the borders of Syria and Jordan and Syria and Palestine. The win of the Arabs ended the Byzantine rule in Syria and this battle is known as the most decisive battle of military history.
Later in 650 the Arabs conquest<em> Persia and marked the end of the Sasanian empire of Persia and the decline of the Zoroastrian religion.</em> They had liberal policies and made population free to convert to Islam or not. This made the place easier to conquest and less prone to rise up against the new government.
The empire continues to grow throughout Europe, leading to the <em>conquest of parts of the Roman Empire</em> but the <em>losses in Mesopotamia and Syria started the decline of the Arab expansion with minor successes of the Byzantines in 1055.</em>
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While the public's fear of foreign involvements in continental North America may have concurred with Polk's agenda, the war he fought against Mexico that began in May 1846 and concluded in February 1848 sparked widespread criticism throughout political, journalistic, and literary circles in addition to strong support. Following the annexation of Texas, the Mexican government had severed diplomatic relations with the U.S. Polk subsequently sent an envoy, former Louisiana congressman John Slidell, to Mexico to try to resolve disputes over the Texas boundary and over damages that the Mexican government owed to U.S. citizens but could not pay. Polk instructed Slidell to make an offer that the U.S. would pay off Mexico's debt in order to acquire "Upper California and New Mexico" and would spend as much as $40 million to purchase the land.
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The United States bombarded Iraq and Saddam Husseim in 1998 because the United States had required Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq or face war. The first targets of military importance were hit with missiles from warships stationed in the Persian Gulf and in response to the attack Iraq announced that “the evil ones, the enemies of God, have committed the stupidity of aggression against our homeland and people."
