I heard that this area declined as a center of civilization due

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>>1643827
While the Middle East and North Africa are certainly drier and less fertile than they were centuries ago, the "decline" really has to do with the discovery of the New World. The ME was so wealthy and luxurious because of the Silk Road and being in the center of the East and West, so every body had to pass through there. But in the Age of Discovery, with the West getting all of the wealth coming in from the Americas and ships traveling from Europe straight to the Far East, there was no longer any need for the Muslim middleman.

>>1643978
Yeah nah fuck off nigger. Civilization started there before a "silk road" could ever be thought of, and the silk road was made for trade between the middle east and the east, only after it expanded to include the west.

>>1644116
Hen ever said Civilization never existed there nor that the Silk road being from far East to West for it's entire lifespan.

once they had razed cities, the Mongols sowed salt in the fields so that nothing could grow there, whcih may contribute to the large deserts we have today

People blame Islam for destroying alot of literature, art and architecture, but don't seem to fathom, that the Mongols were a far more destructive force