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Which two cultures in the middle east have been feuding for decades?
How long a list do you want? Pretty much every two bordering ethnicities in the Middle East have been feuding for the last few centuries, examples include: Arabs and Kurds Turks and Kurds Persians and Kurds Persians and Arabs Christian Lebanese and Sunni Muslim Lebanese Israelis and Arabs (including Palestinians) Settled Arabs and Bedouins Amazigh (Berbers) and Arabs Iraqi Sunni Arabs and Iraqi Shiite Arabs Alawites and Syrian Sunni Arabs and Druze Druze and Palestinians
Why are the Middle Ages sometimes referred to as the Age of Chivalry?
The whole idea of Chivalry arose during the High Middle Ages. It was informed by people such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and a host of European bards, who used the idea of the good warrior, derived partly from the Arabs and partly from the crusades, as a basis for songs and stories. With the end of the Middle Ages, the knights passed out of usefulness, and the age of Chivalry ended with Don Quixote, which, while very funny, mocked the idea of the romantic knight.
How did Arabs feel about the French and British after world war 1?
The feel good because they thought that French and British change everything in the Middle East
What were the 8 different ethnic groups in the Middle East?
This question fails to specify the source claiming that there are only eight ethnicities in the Middle East and there are currently hundreds of ethno-religious groups in the Middle East. Furthermore, there is no timeframe on this question, and ethnic changes in the Middle East are quite significant over time. All-withstanding, the current most populous and famous ethnicities in the Middle East are: 1) Civilized Sunni Arabs (This is to say the Arabs who are Sunni Moslems and live in a relatively urban environment.) 2) Turks (This refers to the ethnicity of Turkey as opposed to the Turks meaning all similar people of that general ethnic group.) 3) Persians (This refers to the dominant ethnic group in Iran.) 4) Civilized Shiite Arabs (This is to say the Arabs who are Shiite Moslems and live in a relatively urban environment.) 5) Bedouins (This refers to the nomadic desert-Arabs that populate the Middle East) 6) Israeli Jews (This refers to the dominant ethno-religious group in the State of Israel.) 7) Egyptian Copts (This refers to the largest group of Egyptian Christianity.) 8) South Asians (This refers to the large immigrant worker population in the Gulf States that comes from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.)
What are Arabs of North Africa and the Middle East considered to be?
Most North Africans are actually not Arabs. Most Moroccans are Amazigh (Berber) a fact that fails to be recognized today even among the ruling class of that country, as well as in Algeria and Tunisia, for political reasons.The "Arab" identity has been ssen as a political driving force behind the de-colonization of the region after world war II. Today, genetic studies confirm that the vast majoirty of the North African population of the Maghreb is in fact related to the pre-islamic population of the region, with slight infusions of Middle eastern Arabs, Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans all amounting to some 20% or less.Egyptians also used to classify themselves as "Egyptian until the time of Nasser when the country joined the Arab league. I believe that this "Arab" umbrella was used for political solidarity between mostly Islamic nations that sought to create a standing political force in the face of British and French colonial forces.Even the Lebanese Christians today do not consider themselves "Arab" but descendants of the Phoenicians (also confirmed by genetic studies). The term "Arab" is mostly political as well as linguistic but does not necessarily reflect a "racial" indentity.The "true" Arabs are those of the Arabian Peninsula, who are distinct genetically and racially from the rest of the middle east because studies show the presence of the M1 gene that is common among black Africans (Cavalli Sforza). Even many Syrians consider themselves Arameans to this day.
