I miss the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians and Elamites....
You have 5 minutes to point out on that map where each of those respective civilizations is centered. Or else you're a pseud.
>>532845131I dont miss Elamites. Fuck them all. Every single one I have met was an asshole.
>>532845131How could so many ethnic groups have all been assimilated into Arabs? If they had remained until now, it would look like Europe.
>>532845360Yeah, the problem is that it's a fucking open field, good luck defending that when the meta for most of history is mobility
>>532845218sumerians southern iraq,akkadians northern iraq, babylonians southern iraq,assyrians northern iraq,elamites east of southern iraq (in iran).
>>532845360The Arabian Peninsula, the main stage, is too small.The European Peninsula is 3x the size of the Arabian Peninsula.
>>532845131Still got the Persians for the most part, and there are some small pockets of Copts in Egypt, and arn't there tiny pockets of Assyrians though out Sryia and Iraq?
>>532845570Babylon's more like central Iraq. Elam = Khuzestan
>>532845131Islam ruined that entire region