Ryan’s Reviews > The Umayyad Empire > Status Update

Pre-modern history is so boring, my Lord. The entire thing is just power struggles and “x ruler had a cousin in y place so be was forced to place z relative as his heir.” Like please, I do not care. This whole book so far has just been war or the balancing of power dynamics within the empire.

Ive finally got to the last third of the book which is actually looking interesting