…the Fight At The Battle of Yarmouk.
"Most people are familiar with the general history of the Arab expansion after the death of Mohammad. The Arabs didn't sit idly in Saudi Arabia, they spread out in multiple directions. In the late 600s CE they dealt with the declining Sassanid Persian Empire to the east but faced a still mighty Byzantine Empire to the north and west. The massive clash between the vastly different cultures, one very old and one very new, would start with a bang at the battle of Yarmouk.
The talented general Khalid ibn al-Walid ran through most of modern Iraq and won great victories against the Persians there. The other Muslim armies fighting the Byzantines in the west had not been so lucky, suffering multiple minor setbacks
When Khalid arrived in the Levant area comprising modern-day Israel and surrounding nations, he resumed his winning ways. He prevailed over a moderately-sized Byzantine army at the Battle of Ajnadayn and took the great city of Damascus without much effort. There didn't seem to be an engagement that the Arabs couldn't win.
The Byzantine Emperor Heraclius had only recently conquered much of the territory that the Arabs were now taking back. With the string of defeats piling up, the accomplished emperor decided on a full-scale invasion to crush the upstart invaders and methodically retake Byzantine territory…"
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