What would this place be like if it wasn't filled with Muslims, Jews and other bad news?
Zoroastrianism and folk religion
>>52386303
American oil derricks.
Turkey, Levant, Iran and parts of Iraq = 2nd world nations
Egypt = Mexico
Arabia = shit, until the discovery of oil where it becomes rich shit
>>52386303
Degenerate perhaps, since they won't even be Islam to hold back their pederasty, which in reality manifests even in spite of Islam's prohibition of the practice.
>>52386303
Still shitty, brown, and violent
Aside from coastal Levant and along the Nile river in Egypt, the land can't support any more than tribal, nomadic shenanigans such as Islam