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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: FierceKitty on January 03, 2018, 12:13:00 PM

Title: Question: early Arabs
Post by: FierceKitty on January 03, 2018, 12:13:00 PM

Apart from the Assyrians and Hebrews, who were the enemies of the Midianites and their allies? Did they ever trade arrows with the Egyptians or the Cimmerian/Skythian peoples?

Title: Re: Question: early Arabs
Post by: zippyfusenet on January 03, 2018, 03:33:34 PM

The Midianites were neighbors of the Moabites. Genesis has Midianites selling Joseph to Ishmaelite (Shasu beduin) traders, who took him to Egypt and re-sold him. Jared Diamond told me that the people you fight are also the people you trade with and marry - your neighbors, because they're available. The Midianites took over an old Egyptian temple at the Timna mining site, they might have had other contacts with Egyptian expeditions. Scythians seem like a very far fetch, to me.

Title: Re: Question: early Arabs
Post by: FierceKitty on January 03, 2018, 04:06:42 PM

Good points.

Title: Re: Question: early Arabs
Post by: OmarR on January 03, 2018, 08:35:23 PM

Madyan fought against the Yahood, Egyptians(Libyu and Nubian) and they fought for the Babylonians and Farsi kingdoms

Title: Re: Question: early Arabs
Post by: FierceKitty on January 04, 2018, 01:03:45 AM

TY.  :)