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5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers
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Re: 5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers
#32> https://www.reddit.com/r/islam/comments/7go26a/the_hour_will... > It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until the land of the Arabs once again becomes meadows and rivers.” When I was a teenager, I was interested in what people used to say about the future in the past and this was the…
That would not have been about the Sahara, but about Arabia. If you look at some Sat photos of Saudi Arabia you will see some crazy large circular meadows. They have greened the desert. Almarai is one of the world's largest dairy farms.
Sure but the idea still stands.
Re: 5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers
#33> https://www.reddit.com/r/islam/comments/7go26a/the_hour_will... > It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until the land of the Arabs once again becomes meadows and rivers.” When I was a teenager, I was interested in what people used to say about the future in the past and this was the…
That would not have been about the Sahara, but about Arabia. If you look at some Sat photos of Saudi Arabia you will see some crazy large circular meadows. They have greened the desert. Almarai is one of the world's largest dairy farms.
More broadly, the Middle East in general was once extraordinarily bountiful, but the cumulative effects of natural climate change and thousands and thousands of years of saltwater irrigation have unfortunately desertified much of the region.
Re: 5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers
#34Those people should have really used electric cars back then
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#35What a striking map that is. It makes me curious how big the Sahara will get, and how long it will be until it begins shrinking again.
Re: 5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers
#36Do we know the size and health of the Amazon at this time? I’ve read that the Amazon relies on silt carried from the Sahara.
Did you mean the Nile? I can't think of any method that would get silt from the Sahara in Africa to the Amazon in South America.
Re: 5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers
#37Do we know the size and health of the Amazon at this time? I’ve read that the Amazon relies on silt carried from the Sahara.
Some time ago I read that there was a time when the Amazon wasn’t all jungle. I don’t know the veracity nor timeframe but I’m guessing within the last few thousand years.
Re: 5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would not have been about the Sahara, but about Arabia. If you look at some Sat photos of Saudi Arabia you will see some crazy large circular meadows. They have greened the desert. Almarai is one of the world's largest dairy farms.
More broadly, the Middle East in general was once extraordinarily bountiful, but the cumulative effects of natural climate change and thousands and thousands of years of saltwater irrigation have unfortunately desertified much of the region.
Well yeah, and also considering that natural climate change was the most significant issue. Since the Pleistocene ice age ended around 11 thousand years ago, and ever since then the equatorial regions have changed dramatically. Coincidentally this is about the beginning of recorded history, or at least the parts recovered from antiquity. The regions around north Africa, the Arabian peninsula, etc... they all would have been ideal habitats for hominids given the climate of the Earth back then, most of the habitable zones were near the equator during the last ice age, and began expanding north/south as the Ice melted. Likewise the grasslands of north Africa, and Arabian peninsula began to slowly change into arid deserts while the other places thawed.
It's a pity the cradle of civilization turned to sand, but at the cost of Earth becoming more habitable it's a fair trade.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are far from the best available. The best option is to send the link and then send the text of the paragraph you wanted to highlight.
You could do this on Twitter if you stay within the character limit but for material in the link, that requires 5+ tweets to cover completely, it simply seems that the amount of scrolling and clicking is a waste. This sort of stuff is not always so neatly presented as it is on this particular link within Twitter. On your timeline, you might notice the "part 3" tweet first. Then you gotta click it to try to gain a lar…
Twitter is obviously a broken system for trying to share interesting links then. I don't see why we should ruin publishing for everyone else because twitter doesn't allow sharing text properly.
Re: 5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers
#40Goat?
You’re being downvoted, but there’s actually something to this theory. The spread of Islam throughout the African continent brought with it a cultural taboo against pork; pigs were mostly displaced by goats, which will frankly eat anything down to its roots.