NMC273Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Layd, Fertile Crescent, Ghassanids
2 Jun 2016
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Arabia named after nomads land of the arab or bedouin. Nomads probably didn"t take up less of a fraction of its population. Arabia varied with different local conditions (climate, terrain, and water sources) Arabia felix (happy arabia) has a nice amount of rainfall includes yemen, hadramawt, and. Asir due to altitude of relative proximity to moist air from indian ocean and change of monsoonal affect. Famed dam at ma"rib in yemen is widely known product of this technology until early 2nd mel. Qatabian, saba, awsan, and himyar trade rooted in agricultural productivity. Yemen divided into several kingdoms, who shared language, dialect, written script, religious traditions may have been theocracy, nobles/ashraf better than others. Arabia felix was only region whose productivity was sufficient to permit development of indigenous civilization, expanding throughout the arabian peninsula. Other areas of arabia had small amount of rainfall agriculture depended on this rainfall civilizations took form of oases.
