the amount of ignorance toward pre islamic arab history is truly baffling on this app, thereโs this narrative that arabs somehow never existed outside of the arabian peninsula until 6th century while arabs built so many civilizations pre islam lmao
average arab twt discourses:
- im whiter than you
- my shithole that i hate is better than yours
- the kuffarim must die
- is it acceptable to kill a woman for breathing air outside the home?
- im not arab!! im [extinct ethnicity]
- i wish i wasnt born a stupid fucking arab
- Rural Mediterranean country of ~10 million
- Fighting French assimilation
- 400k conscripts vs. few ten thousand guerillas
- Elements of civil war
- Hundreds of thousands dead after almost a decade of war
superficially the Peninsular & Algerian wars seem rather similar
I think the main problem with being young is this undercurrent always lurking in your background that you're going to fail in life because you don't care about status enough.
The fall of Rome can really be seen when you look at population growth across Europe between 200 AD and 1300 AD.
Iberia, Italy, and the Balkans barely grew, while Northern Europe saw its population double, triple, or even quadruple.
It is said that the Abbasid Caliph Al-Maumun declared war upon the Byzantinians for abandoning the works of Plato and Aristotle and adopting Christianity, which he considered as "culturally inferior" to the great civilization of the Greeks.
note for the "country i made up" one: not only balochistan would buffer iran in this larp state, but also an jndependent kurdistan to buffer turkey and iran both, and open a corridor to the caucuses