Just as the ancient world from abo- out 600 B.C. , was dominated be the Gree- ks and the Romans , and the modern wor- ld has been dominated by the western eu-ropean and their offshoots in the new wo-rld , so the middle ages were dominated by the Arabs. The place of the Arabs in history by the influence they have exercised over its course may be assessed , in reference to three separate criteria: First , the Arabs have made part of the map of the world indelibly their own by permanently Arabizing most of the mi- ddle east and the whole of north Africa.In these regions a total of some sixty millio- ns people speak Arabic today and call themselves Arab in one sense or another. Seco...
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