Guess I can't stay out of this one, eh?
right. your arabs (semites) in God knows where. In other words, your not jews in Palestine; your jews(or in the same boat they were in, biblically at least) outside of Palestine
Jews outside of Palestine? Why didn't he call it Altneuland, then?
Malukate of Syria
Ruler/Player: Yusuf Midbari
Age: Bronze Age
Government: Divine Monarchy
Category: (NK/10, NK/10, NK/10). [Keep them low!]
Religion: Malukism ["King-worship"; our king is one of the faces of Baal, the God That Is One And Many; his will is divine will, in theory anyway; the priest "caste" participates in ruling the Malukate, but on a much lower level]
Economy: Stable
Army: 2,000 spearmen, 1,000 archers
Navy: 0 galleys
Education: Lost Cause
Culture: Barbaric
UU:
Wonders:
Put me somewhere in Greenland.
Some contemporary Syrian scholars called "present-day western Syria and Lebanon" Greenland, as its much shorter and wasn't yet used by anyone back then, so no copyright problems. But some Vikings WILL have copyright problems! Muwhahaha!
SO ANYWAY!
In the great green forests (just ask the first Sumerian you see on the street) of Arabia, there lived long ago a lot of people who were quite happy herding their cattle there. The cattle - much like in Sahara - eventually destroyed the forests and these people found themselves in a desert. Naturally, they weren't happy. First, they tried to settle in Hejjaz, and even chased off some silly local monotheists all the way across the sea, but that place turned out rather inhospitable as well. They went north, united by a single leader, all the way to the Fertile Crescent, and Phoenicea.
Phoeniceans were beaten up, some of them enslaved, but most just adopted to this and eventually, a synthesis civilizations of the Phoeniceans and the Arabs rose. They were called... the Syrians. Malukate of Syria had its early capital at Sidon. Most importantly for itself, it was a very religious place, all based around the Syrian king, or rather maluk, and also, there was a flexible (based on achievements) caste system. Most importantly for everyone around it, the Syrians were really really warlike...
