Did anything interesting ever happen here?
Did anything interesting ever happen here?
Yeah a couple of things went down there
Human civilization began there, believe it or not.
Just few minor things
Not really, no
No, just the mesopotamians, the birthplace of modern abrahamic religions, the source of tin for most of the bronze age, the birthplace of our writing systems, and numbers, science and medicine after the fall of the roman empire until the renaissance
Yeah a few things not too important though.
Not after the 12th century.
Not much happened outside of there for thousands of years
Welp, the peninsula part still practices slavery up to this day, albeit in a seemingly innocent guise.
iran iraq war was pretty metal
>source of tin for most of the bronze age
I thought that was Britain via Phoenicians
In world war one, the Ottoman Turks marched across the Sinai Desert, with almost no casualties, a feat largely considered impossible at the time. They then fought for the Suez Canal and failed but the whole march thing was impressive
Not even sure if you're baiting or not, considering the recent overdose of /pol/influx.
Egypt yes, Mesopotamia yes, Turkey yes. Rest of it not really until 1800s then 1950s became more important.
>Persia
>The levant
The golden age of Islam invented algebra and medicine.
I mean
Islam was pretty big and came out of Arabia
Some came from India, Britain had some but these were far away and not the major sources of tin for the Bronze age world (Meditarranean and Mesopotamia) . Since it was also in Mesopotamia.
Parthian cavalry
Civilization
Car explosions
Homo sapiens wandered out that way
underrated