Echoes of Empires

How Greek Fire Stemmed the Arab Conquests

Nick Holmes Season 1 Episode 112

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In the first half of the seventh century AD, the rise of Islam seemed unstoppable. How could Byzantium survive? Luck and the invention of a medieval flame-thrower would help!

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