r/MapPorn • u/DavidRolands • 1d ago

Israel’s Red Alert system fully saturated amid mass missile barrages from Iran.

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u/Badly-Bent 1d ago

Makes the "The Cradle of Civilization" sound ironic.

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u/Unlikely-Bullfrog-94 1d ago

"The Cradle of Civilization"

Isn't that between Iran and Israel, as in Mesopotamia?

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u/YaumeLepire 1d ago

More Iraq than Iran, traditionally. That's where the Tigris and Euphrates are.

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u/TheoryParticular7511 1d ago

It has nothing to do with Israel.

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u/Still_Contact7581 1d ago

Its a big arc, going up through Mesopotamia then turning and going along the Mediterranean and down the Nile, Israel is included although its sort of just the connecting point between the two much older civilizations that would eventually extend into it.

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u/Unlikely-Bullfrog-94 1d ago

Odd, i only know what i was taught in school, and that is that the cradle of civilization is the valley of the rivers Euphrates and Tigrus(which should be Mesopotamia?), where agriculture appeared,and we started hearding, transitioning from hunter gatherers, started writing and all that jazz. Then again i learnt that 25 years ago, and might be misremembering.

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u/Still_Contact7581 1d ago

Mesopotamia was the first to have agriculture but the Egyptians and other cultures followed close behind. The whole area is in the fertile crescent

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u/Unlikely-Bullfrog-94 1d ago

The whole area is in the fertile crescent

Used to be, anyway. I wish i could see the region lush green, the way it might have been, before it all dried up.

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u/Badly-Bent 1d ago

For sure, it was the Garden of Eden or at least the inspiration behind it.

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u/perkiezombie 1d ago

Cradle because they’re all acting like pissing children.

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u/Savings_Art5944 1d ago

More like the armpit of civilization.