What did the ancient (bronze age to late roman) MENA look like?

>>3382982
>Bronze Age to late Roman
nigga that's like 3000 years.

http://www.fsmitha.com/maps.html

I found this site that may be of interest as well

>>3382997
Yeah I really meant bronze age but late Roman Republic would also be good

>>3382982
It fucking changed a lot. The only ones who didn't completely change are the Egyptians

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>>3382982
I found this map but that would be way earlier

>>3382982
>MENA
what does this stand for, google gives nothing

>>3383122
Middle East North Africa

>>3382982
Sedimentation at the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates in the Persian Gulf is a big geographic change. Ur might even have been coastal around 3000 BC.

>>3383165
I've heard this theory and I don't fully agree with it, there's not much evidence that it's a port city other than the existence of obvious long distance trade. That could of just as easily happened from where the current sea level is, give or take but surely not that vast of a distance.

>>3382982
>Sahara was not fully closed by the Punic wars
what do you mean?

>>3383245
It was still grassland or savannah in what is desert in the present day

>>3383135
What is this ? Does this thing can be eaten ?

>>3383135
thanks

>>3383263
really?

so what happened?

>>3383294
The Sahara is going through a dry period and has been for the past few thousand years

>>3383294
desertification, old bean

>>3383310
do you know when that started?

>>3382982
>MENA
Could people stop using this retarded term? Especially when it comes to history before islamic conquests. What does Morocco in 1500 BC have in common with Afghanistan in 1500 BC? Nothing.

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>>3383316
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_pump_theory#Last_Glacial_Maximum

>>3383320
I want to see the Sahara and middle-eastern deserts back then

>>3383320
Exactly. I knew I wasn't the only one who thought this, it seems to be some political buzzword.

>>3383320
>both inhabited by caucasoid farmers
just don't tell Tchik'n LaTeequa

>>3383015
>"Green Sahara"
>green everything that magically ends at the Iran/Iraq border
wut

>>3383294
the thing I always here is deforestation, "overgrazing" and climate change.