The Asian Jihad: A sequel to The Greatest Jihad.

Chapter IV: Fall of India

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The friendship with the Mughals could not stand for long. The Arabs wanted their share on the Indian subcontinent but they would not take one area of the thing, but the whole subcontinent had to bow down to Allah.

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To help with future conquests, the Arabs signed a peace treaty with the Holy Roman Empire. This would at least prevent the Germans from attacking the Arabs from the back.

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The Mughals barely put up any resistance at all so the city of Lahore fell to the Arabs very quickly.

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The Arabs moved deeper into India itself, this time into the Mughal city of Mumbai, which was populated with workers and a very small garrison. The city was practically begging to be taken over by the Arabs. The city fell in no time.

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In the same time, the Arabs encountered that the very capital of the Mughal Empire, Delhi, wasn't even properly defended, with only a weak garrison. The fall of Delhi was short and painless for the Arabs, and thus the Mughal Empire collapsed.

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As the Arabs marched into the holy city of Varanasi, they met some Tibetan emmisaries who were dealing with a major wave of refugees struggling to cross the Himalayas and were also racing towards Varanasi. The Tibetans begged for the protection of the Buddhist and Hindu shrines and the Arabs, in a strange show of mercy, agreed to this.

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A very strange truce between the infidels soon formed, as the Arabs and Tibetans signed a trade treaty.

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Only 10 years after the fall of the Mughal Empire and now Northern India was completely under Arab control and professing the Islamic faith.

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The Arabs continued to march into the south of India. This time though, they encountered that the cities were far better defended than the other cities they have been conquering.

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Fortunately, the Arabs were wise and they attacked the city east of Vijayanagara, which had a slightly smaller garrison than Vijayanagara.

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After the arrival of reinforcements from the north, the short-lived ceasefire between Vijayanagara and the Arabs was broken and the city fell.

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The Arabs finally arrived to the last city that was resisting islamization. The city of Cochin was, unlike it's northern neighbours, weakly defended.

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The Arabs met the Malinese civilization after a Malinese explorer found the Arabs. The Arabs began trading with the Malinese soon after that.

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And at last, the city of Cochin fell.

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The wars have inspired yet another great general from Makkah.

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During this time, the Arabs also did another trade with the Mongol hordes to the north.

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The Arabs also did peace with the Turks in exchange for the secrets of Gunpowder.

Other trades with the infidels were also done.

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OOC: Here's my stability for those wondering.

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What you mentioned about the city reminds me of something. It'd be cool if you could convert workers to militia.
 
How are you that stable??? Also, good luck with Britain and France and Portugal in India :p
 
I don't understand why no one goes and takes out Britain before they are a threat! For me they often leave their islands undefended in the early renaissance.
 
cause you need to capture cities of France or Germany or research optics.
 
You may wonder why I didn't post this chapter earlier and why I am not updating my Byzantine AAR. Well, the week turned out to be completely different to what I expected. I know I am going to be embarassed by writing this in a few years, but here it goes.

Expectations before posting the story:

The usual break from chapter to chapter and going with my dad to watch Wild Tales (a local Argie movie, totally recommend it) on saturday, thus getting the whole weekend and a national holiday on Monday to write stuff as well as making a project for school.

What really happened before posting the story:

The usual break from chapter to chapter, getting nervous the whole weekend and monday and thus being unable to write a single sentence, my family suddenly decided to have a reunion on Monday, I spent most of the day there getting bored and nervous and watching documentaries on the TV, my dad decides to keep the reunion until 7 P.M or so (there was a screening of the movie at 5:30 P.M) and I finally came back home on 10:40 P.M, thus not having time to write anything.

So yeah, the weekend sucked (I would have inserted the suicide smiley, but they removed it). In fact, I had to cancel an appointement just to update both AARs.

Anyway, now that I threw out that huge introduction, it's time to continue this AAR for good.

Chapter V: The Iranian Rebellion

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The Safavids, a dynasty set up by the Abbasids at the time of the conquest of Iran, for some time it felt more Persian than Arab. Eventually, the Safavids began having numerous tensions with the Arabs and in 1505, the Safavids broke out of the Caliphate completely. The Arabs at first were tolerant of this breakup, they could take them back later on.

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Unfortunately, the Safavids were not happy with merely having a part of the region for them. They wanted the whole region. When the Caliph refused to give them Iran, the Safavids declared war on the Abbasids and they were joined by other dissatisfied Persian emirates as well as Persian troops in the Abbasid armies. Strangely, numerous soldiers literally based on Achamenid soldiers joined the Safavid armies.

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At first, it seemed that the Safavids were going to beat the Arabs out of Persia for good. The whole region was taken over by the Safavids and the Arabs suffered a series of frustrating defeats.

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Unfortunately, the Arabs pulled even more reinforcements from India. In a short time, the whole region was taken over once again by the Arabs.

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This did not mean, however, that the rebellion was over just yet. Armies continued to turn from the Arabs and fight against their former lords at random times in the region.

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But not everything was just fighting the rebels. The Malinese began trading with the Arabs, this time they exchanged world maps.

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For a small period of time, the rebellion mananged to take over some the cities of Shiraz and Herat. This moment lasted for a very short time and the cities were taken back.

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Strange ships were seen in the Red Sea. Unlike the small boats of the Arabs designed to protect the area, these were huge behemoths in comparison to the small Arab rafts.

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The last Iranian uprising occured when numerous workers went in a strike, but fortunately it was defeated very rapidly due to the lack of Iranian armies to protect them.
 
Pics work for me

(I would have inserted the suicide smiley, but they removed it)

Awesome, this means that I was the last person to use it!
 
There's still a trick to get it.
Look for it in google images and use the IMG tags.
suicide.gif
 
It is kinda gruesome and goes against their own policy really. Also I bet a lot of people were pissed by it.
 
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