Not really. That only really started with the crusades. For most of history it just got traded between various empires that just wanted to control the entire region (Banylon, Persia, Macadon/Selucids, Rome, Ottomans, etc).
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darganon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The wikipedia article on that piece of land is crazy. Religious zealots have been fighting over it since basically recorded history started.
RaineV1@kbin.social 2 years ago
roguetrick@kbin.social 2 years ago
Yeah, the crusaders were the first ones that weren't interested in greater Syria/the greater Levant, stupidly enough for them. It's a fine bit of territory to control if you can actually take the whole thing because of natural chokepoints, but otherwise you'll lose eventually. Ottomans just went back to what the Romans did and governed it as Syria.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It freaks me out that the cradle of civilization is completely desertified and locked in an endless war, as if that’s just the inevitable result of humans being somewhere for a long time.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Cradle of religion?
Not really cradle of civilisation.