Tell me about the ancient middle east /his/.
Who fucked it up, Christianity or Islam?
Neither. It isn't about religion at all. Get your loaded questions out of here.
>>1184514
>It isn't about religion at all
>>1184510
>Christianity or Islam?
So which one was it /his/? Certainly didn't become shitty for no reason.
It was great during Assyria
It was great during Babylon
It was great during the Pharaoes
It was great during Persia
It was great during Alexander
It was great during Rome
It got shit with Christianity, and remained shit under Islam.
>>1184675
Define your criteria. What makes the middle east to be shit?
>>1184675
The prominence of Aramaic declined after the Hellenization of the near east and was superseded by Greek in official and administrative usage.
>>1184510
It was in a constant state of warfare.
But if you must know, it was white people.
>Conflict between people from Gutium and the Akkadian Empire has been linked to the collapse of the empire, towards the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. The Guti subsequently overran southern Mesopotamia
>According to the historian Henry Hoyle Howorth (1901), Assyriologist Theophilus Pinches (1908), renowned archaeologist Leonard Woolley (1929) and Assyriologist Ignace Gelb (1944) the Gutians were pale in complexion and blonde. This was asserted on the basis of assumed links to peoples mentioned in the Old Testament.[14][15][16][17] This identification of the Gutians as fair haired first came to light when Julius Oppert (1877) published a set of tablets he had discovered which described Gutian (and Subarian) slaves as namrum or namrûtum, one of its many meanings being "light colored".[18][19] This racial character of the Gutians as blondes or being light skinned was also claimed up by Georges Vacher de Lapouge in 1899 and later by historian Sidney Smith in his Early history of Assyria (1928).[20][21]
>>1184510
No-one 'fucked it up' or 'fucked ' up anything.
This is equivalent to the 'WE WUZ' except worse it's some armchair /pol/ histororian with an overly romanticized view of history and identifying with it yet has no real relation to it at all.
>>1184675
The lens with which you view history is shit.
>>1185106
>one people among many reported as blonde
>they were white
Ghengis Khan fucked it up when he sacked Baghdad
>>1184566
I thought Egyptians stopped dressing like that back in the Ptolemy days?
needs more qts
>>1184510
Arabia Felix was inhabited by Cushitics from the Horn of Africa before assimilating into the invading Semitic populations from the northwest.
To this day you see their influence in Mehri and Socotra Semitic languages with cushitic substratum.
They were at first "fishers" of Dugong and slowly brought "wild" donkeys and "wild" camels across the Red sea to Yemen. These were fully domesticated on both sides eventually.
These peoples also formed Ancient Punt on both sides of the Red Sea and were traders of bitumen, copper, gold, resins and animals. Eventually after Punt the semites arrived and utilizing the trade relationships Punt formed with Asian merchants eventually became the biggest hub of Afro-Eurasian trade
>>1185465
>Victorian era accuracy
Dunno if this is more accurate but it kind of made me feel like becoming a Coptic Cristian.
https://youtu.be/hZqVpO3_MP4
>>1184510
The ancient Middle East? Maccabees revolt.
bamp
>>1184510
Rome and Persia with their constant autism. They should have left each other alone and concentrated on the Barbarians all around them.
>>1184510
Mongols
>>1185142
People seem pretty eager to reach that conclusion when it's something positive.
>>1184510
Mongols
It was the mongols nuking baghdad probably
>>1184510
What is the civilization that the women had exposed titties.
>>1187941
Minoans and Egyptians
>>1184675
>Certainly didn't become shitty for no reason
Why not?
>>1184675
In what way was it great during these periods, but shit during the Christian or Muslim period?
>>1185561
I'm not sure if the movie portrays the Christians or the Pagans as the aggressors. The movie itself is set in the year when Christianity was established as the official religion of the Roman Empire and pagan temples where closed as well as groups disbanded.
Idk why you would've wanted to be Coptic christian.
>get persecuted by pagans
>christianity becomes official religion
>council of chalcedon determines your heretics
>back to being persecuted again
>only saving grace is Muslims a couple hundred years later who persecute you slightly less
But in general Eastern Christianity makes more sense because the trinity is a mental circus to justify.
>>1188171
Rioting and tearing down shit looks a lot more fun than the activities modern Christians tend to engage in
>washing peoples feet
>changing senior citizens' diapers
>nursing lepers
https://youtu.be/OJJY_1jtO4U
>>1184675
Dude literally 1% of all primary texts from Time survived, and that was a society that prized record keeping and developed the language system we still use today, how the fuck can make such a subjective claim about significantly older regions with shoddy at best record keeping?
>>1190319
From Rome survived*
