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Tom Holland
In The Shadow Of The Sword - The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
Hay Festival 2012,
In the C6th the Near East was divided between two venerable empires - the Persian and the Roman. 100 years later one had vanished for ever and the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs - an upheaval so profound that it meant, in effect, the end of the Ancient World.
