Timeline for Why did Byzantine champions (consistently) lose duels to Muslim armies' champions?
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| May 18, 2020 at 7:16 | comment | added | gktscrk | @AdrianSicaru: Thanks. I wasn't contesting that these happened -- I was merely implying that if you provided a specific set of battle(s) or an era as your subject, a better quality answer could be provided. Compare "Why did Byzantine champions lose?" with "Why did Byzantine lose as evidenced at X, Y, and Z?" The first is ephemeral, while the second could be that in all those cases the Byzantine troops had been kept up by clever enemy ploys and their officers fought poorly because they were tired. Note I'm not contesting the actual answer to this; just a suggestion on the phrasing. | |
| May 18, 2020 at 7:12 | comment | added | Adrian Sicaru | @gktscrk Well, Kings and Generals youtube channel for example has a few episodes on Byzantine - Arab battles and during every one, the byzantine champions were bested by their arab counterparts. youtube.com/channel/UCMmaBzfCCwZ2KqaBJjkj0fw | |
| May 18, 2020 at 7:07 | vote | accept | Adrian Sicaru | ||
| May 16, 2020 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/1261582186936971266 | ||
| May 16, 2020 at 1:54 | comment | added | Mazura | @PatrickT - trying to decipher the answer's "Byzantine officers were killed by the more martial and battle-tested Muslim officers", they did presumably indeed become fat and lazy hiding behind walls. Complacent and conceited, you're going to lose against bloodthirsty and dehumanized. | |
| May 15, 2020 at 21:23 | comment | added | PatrickT | I'm not a specialist at all, but I'd like to throw this out there for specialists to chime in: Why do you expect Byzantine champions to have done well? Because Byzantium survived for so long against all odds? But that's not because of their strength with their champions, but rather because of the fortress they built. On the other hand, the size of the Byzantine army would have been much smaller than that of their enemies, and therefore the probability of picking a successful champion much smaller... or no? | |
| S May 15, 2020 at 16:54 | history | suggested | gktscrk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2020 at 12:20 | answer | added | Brian Z | timeline score: 46 | |
| May 15, 2020 at 12:03 | comment | added | MCW♦ | Not my period, but I'd guess the answer might have something to do with mubarizun. | |
| May 15, 2020 at 8:52 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2020 at 8:23 | comment | added | gktscrk | Could you bring a few examples of these duel losses please? | |
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| May 15, 2020 at 8:15 | history | asked | Adrian Sicaru | CC BY-SA 4.0 |