• Naminreb@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      Geographically, It’s located in the best place to be THE door to Europe’s and Africa’s trade routes with Asia.

      Whomever controls that territory, controls an immense amount of the world’s commerce.

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          6 months ago

          I can also add that in the Bronze age there was a critical trade route used to get Tin from now-Afghanistan to the eastern Mediterranean, and a lot of the city states in that area were basically stopovers on that larger route or between the big empires in the region.

          Also going further back into the stone age, the entire area was considerably less of a desert than it is now