Difficulty In Devising Defence For Syria Essay, Research Paper

Disturbing Precedents Seen propensity to passive resistance from leaders

of centres in Palestine, Syria, Byzantine, Mesopotamia in face Muslim

invasions ? security walled towns.

Syrian and Mesopotamian inclination to avoid violent resistance not

unique- part of normal pattern throughout late Roman Empire. No arms allowed anyway – deters resistance. Private defending of walls ? not privatisation but

Byzantine government trying to stop bearing of arms Heraclius no longer afford to maintain the large

number of garrisons ? except maybe on Mesopotamian borders with Persia Religious reasons protections Palestine ? prestige

of government ability to defend faith and land