scythian500
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Hehe, dude im not into this ''Muslims will conquer Europe'' like talks but wasnt one of the biggest goals of muslims the conquest of Constantinople? Who did it again? Let me think, hmm...
Turkey has been inhabited since the paleolithic age,[7] including various ancient Anatolian civilizations, Aeolian, Dorian andIonianGreeks, Thracians, Armenians and Persians.[8][9][10] After Alexander the Great's conquest, the area was Hellenized, a process which continued under the Roman Empire and its transition into the Byzantine Empire.[9][11] The Seljuk Turks began migrating into the area in the 11th century, starting the process of Turkification, which was greatly accelerated by the Seljuk victory over the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071.[12] The Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm ruled Anatolia until the Mongol invasion in 1243, upon which it disintegrated into several small Turkish beyliks.[13]
and Iran's:
Prehistory[edit]
Cave painting in Doushe cave,Lorestan, Iran, 8th millennium BC
Further information: Prehistory of Iran and Archaeological sites in Iran
The earliest archaeological artifacts in Iran, like those excavated at the Kashafrud and Ganj Par sites, attest to a human presence in Iran since the Lower Paleolithic era, c. 800,000–200,000 BC.[52] Iran's Neanderthal artifacts from the Middle Paleolithic period, c. 200,000–40,000 BC, have been found mainly in the Zagros region, at sites such as Warwasi and Yafteh Cave.[53][54][page needed] Around 10th to 8thmillennium BC, early agricultural communities such as Chogha Golan and Chogha Bonut began to flourish in Iran,[55][56][57][58] as well asSusa and Chogha Mish developing in and around the Zagros region.[59][page needed][60][61]
The emergence of Susa as a city, as determined by radiocarbon dating, dates back to early 4,395 BC.[62] There are dozens of prehistoric sites across the Iranian plateau, pointing to the existence of ancient cultures and urban settlements in the 4th millennium BC.[61][63][64]During the Bronze Age, Iran was home to several civilizations including Elam, Jiroft, and Zayande River. Elam, the most prominent of these civilizations, developed in the southwest of Iran, alongside those in Mesopotamia. The emergence of writing in Elam was paralleled toSumer, and the Elamite cuneiform was developed since the 3rd millennium BC.[65] The Elamite Kingdom continued its existence until the emergence of the Median andAchaemenid empires. Between 3400 BC until about 2000 BC, northwestern Iran was part of the Kura-Araxes culture that stretched into the neighbouring regions of the Caucasusand Anatolia. Since the earliest 2nd millennium BC, Assyrians settled in swaths of western Iran, and incorporated the region into their territories.
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