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The folks in the vicinity of Mecca and Medina weren't worth conquering. They had no wealth beyond what they could acquire through trade.

For all practical purposes they lived in a truck stop a little off the main routes of Persian conquest.

After the Dark Ages got rolling, and enough people had died of plagues and famine, this group became relatively powerful ~ on the other hand, it wasn't until they began hiring unemployed Byzantine legions that they got a real hang of conquering stuff.

They then threw the Persians out of everywhere West of the Euprhates much to the applause and relief of everybody else.

Now, about the Persians ~ the dominant language is part of the Indo-European family. On the other hand, those early Indo-Europeans were so few in number they left behind little, if any, genetic heritage. For all practical purposes almost all the peoples in today's Iran and Iraq are part of the same ethnic group. Part speaks modern Arabic. Part speaks modern Farsi. Otherwise, all same thing.

That is not true. As a Persian who has visited Iran and seen tens of thousands of both Iranians and Iraqis there no similarity. Iranians have fair skin with more square faces and higher cheek bones the Iraqis are generally much darker with more oval faces and lower cheek bones. I can spot a Persian from an Iraqi about 95% of the time.

We had a glyphs post here maybe 3 months ago that put forward the idea that the Indus folks who were in Persia were fair skinned light hair types, perhaps they were Scythians perhaps not.

Interesting things, but what we think of as "Iranian" today, may not have been "Persian" back in the days of Cyrus and Darius.

I would love to learn more about this, more from a clearing up and being accurate point of view.

And Mecca and Medina were small towns deep in the Arabian peninsula, there was little to no reason to try and conquer the sea of sand.