After the fall of Eastern Rome and Sassanid Persia the Middle East and the world went downhill.
>>18457760The lesson to gain here is that brown people need oppressive power structures and no hope in the afterlife in order to remain docile.
>>18457760>The Peak of the Middle East is a military frontier between two foreign powers.
>>18457767He's right. Egypt and Syria put out the most intellectual output during this period.
>>18457760Damn, as a Mediterranean it fucking hurts. the Byzantine–Sasanian war was the biggest collective suicide of the universe. RIP
>>18457769What intellectual output, and what about Mesopotamia?
Jewish historical scripture no longer fools me
>>18457774>Ephrem the Syrian>4th-century Syriac theologian and poet known for hymns and biblical commentaries>Jacob of Serugh>5th–6th century Syriac bishop famous for poetic homilies>Isaac of Nineveh>7th-century Syriac mystic focused on ascetic and spiritual writings>John of Damascus>8th-century Byzantine theologian who defended icons and wrote in Greek>Athanasius of Alexandria>4th-century patriarch and defender of Nicene Christianity>Cyril of Alexandria>5th-century theologian central to Christological debates>Origen>3rd-century Alexandrian scholar and early Christian theologian>Didymus the Blind>4th-century Alexandrian biblical scholar and teacher>Severus of Antioch>6th-century patriarch and major Miaphysite theologianAlso lots of Syriac popes during this time, they basically dominated the Vatican for a century straight.
>>18457766Nothing to do with brown people, brown Christians and Atheists aren't schizo and oppressive like Muslims.
>>18457804Find me one brown atheist country. Besides, every brown Christian country is a violent, corrupt shithole.
>>18457797Damn a bunch of religious teachers, the same shit people mock Islamic schools for producing.
>>18457797>literal who christgolems>intellectuals
>>18457811>>18457812They wrote lots of histories too, bear in mind this is at a time basically nobody else was writing shit. For example basically the entirety of early Islamic history comes from Christian writers.
>>18457811What's wrong with that? Pic related was one too. Science and religion go hand in hand.
>>18457760Ngl it was functionally identical to the caliphates but the religious diversity made it kino.>>18457797>Didn't mention the Neo-platonistsThat's so fucking evil of you. Why would you do this you fucking Chud.
>>18457887We're not talking about superior white religions, Jorge. We're talking about brown people faiths, i.e. the Abrahamic religions.
>>18457760You mean after the afroasiatics expelled these disgusting invaders who turned MENA into a desolate wartorn shithole? You call the civilizational, arts, trade and high culture center of the globe that were the caliphates downhill in comparisonWhat a peculiar view of history judeochristians have
>>18457771The only indigenous mediterranean peoples are the arabs and turksSpanish and italian are germanic invaders and greeks are slavic invaders
>>18457943Islam is basically Zoroastrian Christianity mixed with Arabic paganism
>>18457964>[Brown religion] is basically a [brown religion] [brown religion] mixed with a [brown religion]Very insightful.
>>18457967Aryans are brown?
>>18457970>Brown person makes a post online about how white they are.Original and insightful.
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>>18457974>>18457984Wait until you learn about the Greeks mocking Persians for being too pale
>>18457988>Malnourished brown makes up story in his head about how they're white saar
>>18458024Try reading sometimes, you might learn something
>>18458036>Central Asian nobility who never spent time outside are the same as the brown, poop-colored Persian prolesYou are white saar, prussian nordic
>>18458041Brain rot
>>18457957Wtf are you saying. Anyone living on the mediterranean coast is a mediterranean. All turks are not mediterranean as well as "arabs". Maybe you meant berbers or western anatolian which is 100 % accurate when talking about the mediterranean culture. True arabs live in the fucking desert dude.
>>18458042Better to have brain rot than a brown knot
>>18458048Oh you're one of those. Got it.
>>18458045Racially and culturally spanish, italian and greeks are germanic and slavic settlers descendant from visigoths, lombards, normans and slavsThe majority of the mediterranean basin landmass lies in MENA too, arabs and turks are the true mediterraneans
>>18457957>arabs and turksTwo groups which did not come from the region and invaded it.>Spanish and italian are germanic invaders and greeks are slavic invadersBy your same logic the Arabs and Turks are the same exact thing, but 1-500 years later.
>>18458637Turks are like hungarians they are authoctonous anatolians speaking a turkic languageArabs came from Syria and the middle eastern mediterranean basin has always been inhabited by them and other afroasiatic peoples
>>18458644So who are the indigenous people of the Volga Basin? Aryan Slavs or effete Asiatic Tartars?
>>18458644>Turks are like hungarians they are authoctonous anatolians speaking a turkic languageHow is this any different from any European Mediterranean people? Genetics are overwhelmingly in favour of local populations. Even Arabs in the Levant and Egypt do not share genetics with Bedouins to a great extent.>Arabs came from SyriaArabs lived in interior Syria, but either lived effectively apart from those who lived closer to the coast as nomads, or in cities where they were the minority which only had any considerable number by the Hellenistic period, and they effectively just merged with elite Greek and Roman culture. Nomadic Arabs had little to no interaction with the people living in the Mediterranean outside of settled Arabs who had a different culture.>and other afroasiatic peoplesWhom were not Arabs. Afroasiatic is a meaningless term.
>>18457767Something something the Borgias renaissance something something the Swiss cuckoo clock yadayada.
>>18458052>>18458048>>18458042>>18458041>>18458045>Proven you are white
>>18457760We need to go earlierhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd0ybTpOkp0
MENA was definitely more interesting when it was about belly dancers, ziggurets, jinn/genie including ghoul/gala, and was more multiracial and multifaith. The Christening of the Levant definitely demystified the exotic and then Islam all but eliminated it with its minimalism and austerity
>>18457767The Middle East continued to suffer that ever since it was divided between sunni and shia
>>18459842You mean chaotic and miserable? Do you think people embraced these religions for no reason? The Orient was hellish. It still is. You don’t get belly dancers and ziggurats and snake charmers without a profound lack of respect for human dignity.
>>18459849As opposed to animal flinging and burning witches?
>>18457767They were at peace more often than not
