Military expansion. The Rashidun Caliphate expanded gradually; within the span of 24 years of conquest, a vast territory was conquered comprising Mesopotamia, the Levant, parts of Anatolia, and most of the Sasanian Empire. Unlike the Sasanian Persians, the Byzantines, after losing Syria, retreated back to Anatolia.
1 And the nature of this reality again can neither be consistently represented as a fixed and hard substance nor as an unalterable something, but only as a fixed order of recurrence of continually changing events or impressions.
Learner's definition of CONSISTENT. [more consistent; most consistent] 1. a : always acting or behaving in the same way. He is a consistent supporter of the museum. We need to be more consistent in handling this problem. Data from recent experiments show consistent results.