The rise of Arabia

The next 2500 years in Arabian history constituted the biggest period of expansion in its history. Beginning with the founding of Medina in the hills to the southwest of Mecca, the Arabians proceeded to fill their small island with cities in the years to come, including Damascus in 1160, Baghdad in 540 and - after almost 1000 more years, Najran in 350 ACE. Many other great successes filled this period, ranging from a wealth of new technologies, building a network of roads to fighting off a Barbarian assault on Damascus. Truly memorable milestones include the discovery of a huge new continent, which they called الآخرو, to the northwest of the modest Arabian isle in 960 BCE and in building of the Temple of Solomon - the spiritual center for Judaism - by the Great Prophet Zoroaster in 680 BCE.

More, during the exploration of الآخرو, the Arabians began encountering new and foreign powers including, in order, the Mayans, the Spanish, the Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Sumerians. During this era the Mayans and Babylonians became trusted friends, while the Spaniards and Babylonians adopted a hostile posture.

However, the moment history best remembers occurred in 310 BCE. The Arabians completed one of their most cherished creation, a Jewish temple in the heart of Mecca. And that night an enormous hurricane struck Mecca and destroyed only a single building: the new Jewish temple. The religious debates and lamentations from this certainly God-ordered turn of events would continue through the entirety of Arabian history and become among the most important myths in the both Arabia and the Judaic world. Still, during these years Arabia rose to a point of tremendous might.