To: livius
Pre-Islamic Arabs and Persians
now we use the GEneric term arab to call all mid easterners, however, the true iraqis were not arabs but Assyrians, Babylonians. Egyptians are not arabs either, only those from Saud land are arabs.
14 posted on
04/19/2004 9:52:16 AM PDT by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: Cronos
This is very true, they are not Arabs. I wish we had a more accurate term for people from that area, since the thing they have in common is their geography and not their ethnic group, language, culture, history, etc.
32 posted on
04/19/2004 10:37:53 AM PDT by
livius
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