a mark 

A Beginning 

a start, a date, a year, a number.  666  Look for number in Daniel.  It refers to years.  So what happened in the year 666?  Nothing.  Historians are careful about that year.  Dating is difficult without a calendar.  A date is the most common mark on a product.  Its origin.  So what started in 666?  What calendar should we use?  

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666 

A Year 

with no history but everyone knew Constantinople was the target of the Arabs.  They were ready to attack and the Christians were ready to defend themselves.  In addition to the walls, they had Greek fire.  Some historians could not be trusted with dates according to Gibbon.  This was the first siege of Constantinople by the Arabs.  

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