Battle Of The Yarmuk Research Paper

Background: An account of the battle of the Yarmuk aka. Yarmuq or Hieromyax written by Al-Baladhuri in Arabic. A Byzantine general by the name of Vahan gathered a large army around 200,000 men and they conquered a lot of areas in the Middle East: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Israel, and Palestine. A reason for why they had so many men was because they would get men from the places they conquered to fight for them. They met the Muslim army lead by Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of the Yarmuk in Syria on 20 August 636. The Muslim army had approximately 24,000 men. There were also the families of these men fighting or at least throwing stones. In this battle Hubash ibn-Kais al-Kushairi loses a leg. Also in this battle al-Ash'ath ibn-Kais, Hashim ibn-'Utbah ibn-abi-WakkAs azZuhri (i.e., al-Mirkal) and Kais ibn-Makshuh lost one eye. In the end the Muslims manage to miraculously defeat the Byzantines and reconquer the lands in the Middle East that was theirs before. The Muslims also conquer Egypt which was an important area for the Byzantine Empire.
The Arabs had the land that they conquered, most of the land they conquered was after this battle because it influenced more people to be a