Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out?
RaineV1@kbin.social 1 year agoNot 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).
roguetrick@kbin.social 1 year 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.