The essay I've written below was from way back when I was a sophomore. It covers the Arab bedouins, arrival of Islam and Muhammed, Ummayad and Abbasid dynasties, diffusion of Islam to other civilizations, and the inevitable downfall. This was for a unit assignment and basis for one of the discussions about patterns of civilizations held in my world history class. You could say that the exhibited patterns can relate to the international societies present today. Plus. . . there was something about the Middle East that got me totally enamored by their history and culture, amongst other civilizations such as China and India. <3
Change Over Time - Middle East and North Africa
Dominant over other contemporary civilizations technologically, commercially, and politically (equal to that of classical China), the Arab empires would've been exemplary to the world presently, but this failure lied at the root of any civilization's collapse: human nature. Incompetency in leadership acted as a catalyst over generations and all other factors of decline fall into place like a chain reaction of dominoes. Following the pattern of intermittent civilizations, the Arab empires of the Middle East began with times of hardship and ended as remnants of what was imperialism.
