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u/Nandy-bear Oct 13 '24
The Sahara is only a few thousand years old too. As a desert I mean. It flips because...science stuff. I think maybe the way the Earth rotates weird on its axis ? But ya it switches up to savannah then back to sand etc.
(Few thousand meaning tens of, rather than pyramids built on grass type deal)
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Oct 14 '24
If you're talking about the pyramids of Giza, they were actually built during a wetter period when the Sahara was mostly green. Which would have been 4-5 thousand years ago.
(Unless you believe they're potentially way older in which case it would have been an even different environment and also not desert. But then we're getting into conspiracy theories about aliens and ancient civilizations which is a whole other can of worms).
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u/Lanky_Comedian_3942 Oct 14 '24
But...green doesn't look black from a distance...
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u/Zockercraft1711 Oct 14 '24
Actually nothing looks black. It's the lack of light going to the eyes🤓
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u/Morbid_Aversion Oct 14 '24
What does "from a distance" mean? We're talking about a time, presumably, before air travel so how does it make any sense to call a whole country (which incidentally also didn't exist until very recently) something when the best you could have done back then is on a clear day maybe see the general shape of city from a mountaintop?
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u/sudanesegamer Oct 14 '24 edited Oct 14 '24
This isnt all true. Yes, it was called land of the blacks but not because of the greenery. Countries to the south of the middle east going into africa were called bilal al sudan which means land of the blacks. It referred to people though. Iraq was alot greener than today bit because of climate change and droughts, thats changed.
However, al sawad was a term relating to some land with fertile soil iraq used to have.
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u/Big-Note-508 Oct 15 '24
bilad* as’sudan (you don’t pronounce the L so you don’t write it in english, S is a Harf Shamsi)
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u/sudanesegamer Oct 15 '24
Sorry forgot. My arabic is pretty sloppy sometimes
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u/Big-Note-508 Oct 15 '24
don’t worry .. another example for you to revive your memory .. we do not write Abed El Rahman because this will make non arabs read the name wrong ! we write it like this Abdurrahman .. hope this helps
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u/iamday1 Oct 14 '24
Exactly. The axis is to the right atm and will be for awhile until it eventually switches and tilts the the left making the Sarah green again
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