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It was the golden age of the rise of empires and the age of black iron of empire decline.

This was the era when the Arab Empire dominated Asia, Europe and Africa, and it was also another powerful empire that ruled over a territory of tens of millions of steps, following the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, Alexander's empire, the Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire.

If the empire is strong, it is true that there are small countries with various border powers that bow down to it, and if the empire is weak, the city-states that have good relations will lose their face.

This is the best picture of the Arab and Byzantine empires of this era: after the occupation of Egypt, the Arabs even received friendly letters from the Ethiopian diocese, while the Byzantine Empire, in contrast to the Byzantine Empire, when only Asia Minor, the southern tip of the Peloponnese, the two provinces of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, Rome, Puglia, and the capital Ravenna at this time, were bullied by the surrounding small states and independent kingdoms.

The Christian Church and the people of the "Fare" were also in a bad situation: as calculated at the time, the Demon Church had succeeded in laying enough pawns throughout the Arab Empire, and the spread of witchcraft had led to the destabilization of the Christian Church, coupled with the invasion of the Arabs and the harassment of various barbarian tribes, the trust in Christianity became more and more weak. The main source of spices and cloth from the Byzantine Empire was also cut off, after all, they had adapted to the spices used by the Romans for 200 years, and it would be very unaccustomed to suddenly switching to the oriental type - the Romans liked the fragrant, while the Arabs liked the spicy.

Unlike the turmeric and coriander commonly used in the tribe, the only things Hadu can get now are curry and peppercorns, and these seasonings that make the tribe constantly have small conflicts, and the whole city is full of noise, so that Hadu can't sit still in the cave, and spends a lot of time mediating all kinds of trivial things such as small frictions between the tribes.

But Hado didn't have a straightforward solution: go to the Romans. Don't think about it, their main spice production areas are occupied, even if they produce spices, they themselves are not enough, how can they "even" some to Hadu? Go to Cappadocia, Azerbaijan, Africa and Khorezm to find spices. Forget it, Hadu didn't dare to go to Jerusalem now, so he finally healed the scars left by that battle, and if he wanted him to cross the widest territory of the entire Arab Empire, he wouldn't be willing to do anything.

Of course, sometimes the Demon Church would bring some Roman spices to Hado as a gift to maintain the relationship, but most of these spices were finished products, and without seeds or living leaves, Hadu couldn't even grow them himself. Worst of all, in order to prevent outsiders from copying or copying the Romans' own spice recipes, they also deployed an ever-improving abstract plundering power encryption on the finished spices, which made Hado's plan to plunder the composition of these spices unworkable.

Not being able to eat the seasoning he was accustomed to was still a trivial matter, and how to maintain his relationship with the two churches and protect the city while the Arab Empire grew was the biggest headache for Hado right now. In fact, more than 40 years have passed, and Hadu has not been able to go to the Vatican and Constantinople to inspect the Church Guard, which not only greatly weakens the ability of these two independent forces, but also restricts the power of the Church. As for the castles. Well, the main reason for the collapse of the eastern city wall is that the amount of water flowing down from the "Falie" mountain range has decreased, causing the pontoon pillars supporting the eastern city wall to fall into the bottom of the dark river, and then the wall collapsed - on the day the wall collapsed, Hadu was recuperating when he suddenly heard a cry outside the cave that shook the sky, and the frightened cries of the clansmen made Hadu think that the moon had fallen.

However, there is still something that makes Hadu happy: according to the information collected by the Demon Church, the single religion coverage rate of the Arab Empire has reached 96%, of which 40% of the areas are original Christian dioceses, which means that these places, like Christianity, are basically impossible to develop polytheistic religions. In this way, it will be easier to promote atheism in the future. The Arab Empire was even more powerful than the Byzantine Empire: the former had been expanding, and at this time it was still waging wars of aggression to the northwest and east, not only taking all the southern territories of the Western Roman Empire, but even reaching south into the green mountains of the Tang Empire in the east.

As for the atheistic advancement that Hadu thought, it was not so smooth at this time: according to reliable information, after the polytheism of the Romans basically played eggs, the Franks, West Slavs, Eastern Slavs, and Pechenegs began to play polytheism again, but they were not as good as the Tang Empire in the East - it was a large polytheistic religion, not only the great gods and small gods of Buddhism, but also the great immortals and small immortals of Taoism, and the great Confucianism and small Confucianism of Confucianism. There are gods and immortals in the sky, gods and immortals on the earth, gods and immortals in the sea, and gods and immortals in people."

Whether it is Christianity, Judaism, or Xingyue Religion, the spread of the Tang Empire is very limited, according to the intelligence, only in the eastern coastal and northern coastal areas there are records of Christian missionaries, and the more you advance to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire, the worse the ability of the three major religions to spread. At this time, there were still many Western mercenaries who were hired to fight in the Tang Empire, but due to differences in customs and living habits, their reputation was not very good in the Tang Empire, and even bringing them made it difficult for the missionaries, and the Tang Empire itself was also resisting the invasion of the three major Western religions, which made it difficult for the church to carry out its work.

But there's one thing these empires have in common: if they don't like something, they will be brainless and stubborn about total repression. Both the two churches and the "Koman'ne" Eastern tribe have reported similar reports that during the transition of large imperial powers in the East, the expulsion of missionaries from the three major religions has occurred from time to time in order to strengthen the stability of the community. And since most of the missionaries lived a simple, ascetic life, the government could not squeeze oil and water out of them, and the attitude towards them only became worse.

In response to this situation, Hado suggested that the Demon Church increase the resource tilt ratio of the Eastern Diocese, so that those missionaries would be more brightly dressed to make it easier for them to work among the upper classes. However, the head of the Demon Church said that due to the invasion of the Arabs, the church is now short of money.