"Battle of Talas 751 CE . Clash Between the Arab Abbasid..." Topic

…. AND CHINESE EMPIRE

"The battle on the Talas River was a very important historical battle that occurred in July, 751 on the Talas River (presumably in the border of modern Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in central Asia) near the city of Atlaha between the troops of the Abbasid Caliphate and Turgesh Kaganate on the one hand, and the army of Tang China, for control of Central Asia and for access to the very lucrative Silk Road. The result of the battle was a great victory for the Abbasid caliphate with their ally Turgesh Kaganate. The result of the battle was very consequential, and was the start of the spread of Islam in Maverannahr and Central Asia, as well as Arab influence on the Great Silk Road in the region. Cultural exchange was initiated because after the battle, there were great achievements in the east, like paper accessible to the middle east and later Europe, sparking a great change of intellectual learning and influenced great advances in science and the arts.

By 751, the Arabs very quickly conquered Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Palestine from the Byzantine and Persian Empires that had fallen to the new enemy they did not have the foresight to understand and act accordingly (in the time of the conquest, both empires were weakened by the strangers among them and did not have strength to repel the new invader). Despite the resistance of the West Turkic Kaganate in central Asia, they managed to seize its southern part and annex it into the caliphate. With the penetration of the Arabs in the Central Asian region, Islam gradually began to spread among the people that inhabited those lands for centuries…."
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