MARCH OF THE TITANS - A HISTORY OF THE WHITE RACE
CHAPTER 7 : THE NEAR EAST - WHITES OVERWHELMED
The racial make-up of the original inhabitants of the Near East - that is from Turkey to modern day Iran, including the areas known today as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine and Egypt, was by the year 4000 BC, predominantly original White Mediterranean, with scattered groups of Alpine and Proto-Nordic sub groupings amongst them.
These original White inhabitants were strengthened by the arrival of large numbers of Nordic Indo-Europeans who started spreading south from their ancestral homeland in southern Russia from around 3000 BC onwards.
In addition to these White peoples, another grouping was to play a significant role in the history of the Near East - the Semitic speaking peoples (this encompasses a wide range of peoples, including groups known to history as the ancient Jews and Arabic peoples). These Semitic speaking peoples eventually came to predominate the entire Middle East, entering the original White territories as laborers, traders, immigrants and military conquerors.
A map of the region under discussion in this chapter: Virtually every country shown here was subjected to invasions by Indo-European Nordics, who then set up White civilizations - only to be later submerged into a mass of Semitic, Mongoloid and Hammatic (mixed peoples) who came to work in the nations as slaves or as conventional laborers.
From a racial point of view it is worth noting that neither the original Old European Mediterranean White peoples nor the original Semitic peoples exist in their original form any more. While retaining certain physical characteristics, both these groups have been mixed substantially with each other and other racial groups as a result of the ebb and flow of historical events in the Middle East.
It is also important to realize that although there existed a Semitic racial type, very often confusion exists when the term "Semitic" is used.
Very often when mention is made of the word "Semite" it is presumed that it is to Jews whom reference are being made - this is a false assumption. The Jews of ancient times were most certainly as pure a Semitic speaking people as could be found, but in modern times are a mix of a great many races, from Black right through to all of the White subraces, so it would be factually incorrect to refer to the Jews of today as pure Semites. Semitic speaking tribes also encompassed a number of other tribes in the Middle East, as is the case still today.
In the same way most of the other inhabitants of the modern Middle East are racial mixtures (although they tend not to have as large an admixture of European sub-groupings as the European Jews have) with the result that there are very few pure "Semites" left even in the Middle East.
Nonetheless, the history of the ancient Middle East is dominated by centuries of physical struggle between these White and Semitic peoples, with each group establishing civilizations which in turn were overrun by one or more of their two rivals, or, just as often, by a racially similar tribe.
Control of the Mesopotamian river valley swung between these groups for thousands of years, with each successive invasion bringing with it an impetus of new blood and culture. For a long period, however, the White tribes were able to hang on to the higher lands to the north East of the Tigris/Euphrates river basin, while various Semitic tribes occupied parts of previously Indo-European held territory within the Near East.
As a result of this continual crossover of civilizations and shared geographical area, the racial distinctions of the peoples became more and more blurred, and towards the close of this epoch it becomes more and more difficult to identify clear racial groups as opposed to named cultures. Ultimately, the disappearance of the distinct racial groupings in the region led to the torch of civilization being passed to what were then more homogeneous societies - first in Egypt and then to the classical Greek and Roman civilizations.
A religious ceremonial figure of a Sumerian deity from circa 3000 BC, at Tell Asmos, a provincial Sumerian town. The figure is remarkable for it has blue eyes - set with the stone lapis lazuli. This blue stone was greatly prized by the Sumerians, who imported it from its only source, 3200 kilometers away in north Afghanistan. Blue eyes are an exclusively White racial trait.
SUMERIA : FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT
The region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is commonly called the fertile crescent - because of the closeness of fresh water supplies. However, the term fertile crescent is a misnomer. Rainfall in the region has always been sparse, and large parts of this region are in fact arid desert.
The region was, contrary to popular myth, never ideal farming territory, and the dryness was only alleviated in part due to the proximity of the river water.
In spite of this, by the year 5000 BC, original Mediterranean Whites and some early Nordic tribes (together known as Ubaidians) established settlements in the Tigris and Euphrates river basin.
These settlements gradually developed into the chief cities of the region. This territory lies in the modern day country of Iraq.
SECOND WHITE INVASION 3250 BC - ORIGINS OF SUMER
These original Whites were conquered by a new White tribe, the Sumerians, in 3250 BC. These people gave their name to the region: Sumer.
In the centuries that followed the immigration of the Sumerians, the country grew rich and powerful. Art and architecture, crafts, and religious and ethical thought flourished.
The Sumerian language became the prevailing speech of the land and their system of writing, the Sumerian script, where pictures were used to represent objects, set the standard for all written languages of the time.
A Sumerian clay tablet, from about 2800 BC. It is one of the earliest decipherable documents in the world. Early writing was done on clay tablets with impressions being made by wooden wedged instruments.
Although initially being very basic - a stick drawing of a fish would represent a fish and so on - this written language laid the basis for all pictographical languages, including the later Egyptian and Sanskrit forms. Writing was done on clay tablets with impressions being made by wedge shaped instruments. This pictographical writing eventually developed symbols for abstract concepts such as "love", "go" and so on. The Sumerian script dominated all writing forms for at least 4000 years until the Greek script became pre-eminent.
From the very beginning of the settlement of the Sumer delta possessed metal working facilities (they were particularly good at copper working) and possessed wheeled vehicles, a significant breakthrough at the time. It is presumed that the wheel originally developed from the potter's wheel, which the Sumerians naturally also possessed.
To the south east of Sumer lay the Saudi Arabian peninsula - the original heartland of the Semitic speaking peoples. The original Whites were soon surrounded by Semitic tribes, and within a few hundred years Semitic immigrants began to take up residence in the region, both as peaceful immigrants and as raiders.
FIRST SEMITIC INVASION: THE AKKADS
The first large scale Semitic invasion took place in 2335 BC, when the White Sumerians were overrun by the Akkadian people. The Semitic Akkad occupation of Sumer led to the establishment of a new kingdom, called (unsurprisingly) "The Kingdom of Sumer and Akkad". It was shortly after the Akkadian invasion that the first Jews are recorded as entering Sumeria in large numbers.
Eventually - after a few generations - the Semitic tribes started intermarrying with the original White tribes, and although this process was not absolute, the distinctions between the two groupings became blurred. This mixing of the races in the region led to an increasingly hybrid population - a trend which continues to this day.
Art forms left by the early Babylonians reveal their racial make-up - they were primarily a Mediterranean people - with the passage of time it is possible to see a distinct Semitic influence becoming apparent.
The British anthropologists Dudley Buxton and Talbot Rice found skulls among human remains excavated at the Sumerian palace at Kish in Mesopotamia. Similar skulls were found by the French anthropologist H.V. Vallois amongst remains collected at Sialk, halfway between Teheran and Isfahan, north east of Kish; and in the Indus river valley R.B.S. Sewell and B.S. Guha of the Zoological Survey of India also found similar skulls: all have been positively identified as belonging to the (now virtually extinct) Mediterranean White subrace. (Race, John R Baker, Oxford University Press, 1974, page 511).
CIVILIZATION OF SUMER PEAKS - AFTER THE GUTIAN INVASION
The Kingdom of Sumer and Akkad then fell before the first, and by all accounts ferocious, Indo-European invasion - that of the Celts. Known as Gutians in the Middle East, they fell upon the kingdom of Sumer and Akkad less than 100 years after it was established, around the year 2200 BC.
The Gutians sacked and destroyed the mixed Semitic/Mediterranean Sumer and Akkadian civilization and established their own rule and civilization in the region. Soon they had provinces extending right to the Mediterranean Sea itself.
The Gutian invasion sparked a surge in the Sumerian civilization - it was after the Indo-European invasion that Sumerian civilization was to reach some of its greatest heights. These included:
The main ziggurat at Ur, Mesopotamia, built circa 2,100 BC, shortly after the first major Indo-European invasion. The building was created in the shape of a step pyramid.
After a few generations the Gutians themselves became submerged into the wider population of Sumer, whose great cities and wealth had acted as a magnet for all the surrounding Semitic tribes. Slowly but surely increasing numbers of Semites, as traders, laborers or slaves, were drawn to Sumer, creating over time a mixture of Old European, Semitic and Indo-European peoples. This shows up very clearly in their grave sites and art forms in the wide range of racial features on display.
THE SECOND INDO-EUROPEAN INVASION: THE AMORITES
Then the region was once again invaded by yet another originally Indo-European peoples, the Amorites, around the year 2000 BC, bringing with them a renewed wave of Nordic blood into the peoples of the region.
The Amorites had originally entered the Middle East from the Balkans and had occupied Palestine, mixing with a certain number of the Jewish tribes they subjugated there. It is a matter of conjecture as to exactly how much Semitic (therefore darker) physical characteristics they had taken on by the year 2000 BC - very likely not much, as the Egyptians still described them as fair haired and blue eyed some 700 years after they had invaded Sumeria.
White female head from Uruk, Sumeria, circa 3,500 BC, presently in the Iraq museum, Baghdad.
SUMERIAN CULTURE
Sumerian religion had four leading deities, the creating gods called: An, the god of heaven; Ki, the goddess of earth; Enlil, the god of air; and Enki, the god of water. There were three sky deities, Nanna, the god of the moon; Utu, the sun god; and Inanna, the queen of heaven. Inanna was also the goddess of love, procreation, and war.
The Sumerians also had a reasonably advanced mathematical system with tables for multiplication, division and even square and cube roots. They also possessed a knowledge of geometry.
The most famous surviving piece of literature from this period is the "Epic of Gilgamesh", a fictional story of an old king of the city state of Erech who sets off in search of immortality. It also includes a chapter dealing with a flood of the earth, and is clearly the origin of the Christian and Jewish Old Testament story of Noah and the Biblical flood.
BABYLON AND HAMMURABI
The chaos caused by the Amorite invasion lasted until 1763 BC, when a strong and capable king arose and united the inhabitants once again. From this time the city of Babylon was built, and the region became known as Babylonia.
The first king of Babylon - the one who managed to end the chaos and unite all the tribes into a nation - was named Hammurabi.
Left: The Law Code of Hammurabi, 1750 BC. The code has been preserved intact on this stela, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. At the top of the stela is picture of the king before Shamash, the (typically Indo-European) sun-god, who was also the god of justice. The introduction to the code is directly below the pictures, in which Hammurabi asserts that he has come to rule over the "dark haired people". The 282 laws cover such things and offenses against other people and property; disputes concerning land, trade, fees, professional services and family. Some of the punishments would be considered harsh by modern standards, but on the whole the laws present a picture of a well ordered society which lived by recognized standards and offered protection to all its citizens. Alongside is a detail from the stela showing the great Nordic King Hammurabi in profile. His racial features are clear in this depiction made during his lifetime.
King Hammurabi has become most famous for his Code of Laws, dating from 1750 BC, which is widely but incorrectly held to be the first written legal code in the world (it was the second, the first being the code drawn up by the earlier White Sumerians). Hammurabi's code of law was engraved in stone and set up in the great cities of the region - to this day the Code is regarded as the father of the all legal codes of the world.
While some of the laws themselves seem harsh to the modern mind (death for being unable to repay debt, for example) nonetheless the wording of the prologue to Hammurabi's Law Code provides a fascinating glimpse into the conflict between the Semitic and Indo-European populations in the region.
In the prologue, Hammurabi announces that he has come to "rule the black haired people"; he is also referred to as "the White King" and the "White Potent", obviously in reference to his coloring.
The original introduction on the Hammurabi Code, which was engraved in stone and is still existent, reads as follows :
"Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak; so that I should rule over the black-headed people like Shamash, and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind..."
"Hammurabi, the prince, called of Bel am I, making riches and increase,...who enriched Ur;...the white king,...the mighty, who again laid the foundations of Sippara...the lord who granted new life to Uruk, who brought plenteous water to its inhabitants...the White, Potent, who penetrated the secret cave of the bandits ..."
(Translated by L. W. King, The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910. Further translations of Hammurabi's code can be found in The Code of Hammurabi, R.F. Harper, University of Chicago Press, 1904).
Although Hammurabi himself was then clearly a descendent of one of the Nordic tribes and not one of the "black haired" peoples, as the Law Code reveals, by this time large numbers of the population had become distinctly Semitic, as waves of immigrants swarmed in from the Arabic heartland on the Saudi Arabian peninsula, drawn by the allure of the great Sumerian cities.
Building upon the technological and cultural precedents set by the Sumerians, the Babylonians maintained the complex systems of canals, dikes, weirs and reservoirs constructed by the original White inhabitants.
As an indicator of the symbolism Babylon has come to acquire, to this day the Black Rastafarian movement talks about all White civilizations as being "Babylon".
THE THIRD INDO-EUROPEAN INVASION: THE KASSITES AND HITTITES -
THE FIRST USE OF THE CHARIOT
Babylon was then invaded by new waves of Indo-Europeans and Indo Aryans, some on their way to India: the Kassites and Hittites conquered large areas of the region by 1595 BC.
Under Kassite rule, which lasted another 450 years, Babylonia once again became a power of considerable importance. The Kassites were the first people to use the chariot as a weapon of war, a skill later taken on by virtually every other nation in the Near East and Europe. Horse riding itself originated with the Indo-Aryan tribes who populated modern day Iran.
SEMITIC POPULATION INCREASE - JEWS INTO CAPTIVITY
By this time the numbers of Arabic Semites in the region were reaching numerically overwhelming proportions. This balance was tipped even further by a renewed Semitic invasion which started in the 9th century when the Chaldeans managed to occupy the region.
Although Semitic himself, the Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzar (who became king in 604 BC) achieved fame for carrying off several thousand Jews into captivity in Babylon.
The Chaldeans in turn were attacked by the originally Indo-European Assyrians in the north: the city of Babylon was eventually sacked by the Assyrians around the year 700 BC.
Assyrian troops pursuing Semites: from the palace at Ashurbanipul at Ninevh, Assyria, circa 645 BC. Note how the Semites are portrayed as riding camels, while the Assyrians are portrayed as riding horses. British Museum, London.
SYRIA AND THE HITTITES
An Indo-Aryan tribe called the Hittites established an empire in present day Turkey around the year 2000 BC, after sweeping south and west from the original Nordic homeland in Southern Russia.
In 1700 BC, Hittite armies began pushing south, conquering Syria and the Euphrates and Tigris River valley, helping to destroy the Babylonian empire in 1600 BC. At its height, the Hittite Empire covered an area stretching from the Black Sea to Syria.
By conquering Syria, the Hittites had taken away an Egyptian colony, and the Egyptian Pharaoh, Ramses II, attacked the Hittites from bases in Palestine in 1269 BC.
The Hittites however defeated Ramses, and a peace treaty followed, in terms of which the Hittites kept possession of Syria.
The Hittites are credited with being the first people to work iron in the region, and are also famous for borrowing much of their legal system from the law codes they found when they conquered the Babylonians. This was indeed the major importance of the Hittites in history - they took much of Mesopotamian culture and spread it around Asia Minor (Turkey) and even to the early Greeks. In this way much of the accumulated Mesopotamian culture was transmitted to countries lying to the west.
By 1500 BC, the Hittites had, like many of the Indo-European tribes (and indeed the Semites as well) started to mingle with the other peoples in the region, eventually producing the population of today in the Near East - an indefinable mix of White, Semite, Black and even Mongolian strains.
So weakened, the Hittite empire came to an end, being overrun by new waves of Indo-Aryan invaders, the Assyrians, from the north.
With the collapse of the Hittite Empire in 1200 BC, no one power was strong enough to dominate the Middle East, and a number of independent states flourished for about 500 years.
PHILISTINES: JEWISH HATRED OF
One of the Indo-Aryan invasions which led the fall of the Hittites was led by a tribe known as the Philistines. This tribe conquered large parts of the Middle East, including today's Palestine (from where the name of that country originates) and eventually Babylon as well.
The Philistines established what was by all accounts a harsh rule over the Semites under their control, leading to a fanatical hatred of the Philistines being developed by the subjugated Jewish tribes. This hatred was transferred into the Semitic religion in Palestine, Judaism.
This hatred of the Philistines was developed to the point where today anyone who has been raised a Christian knows that to call someone a Philistine is to insult that person, even though the person using that insult may not even know who the Philistines were.
As a result, the use of the phrase "Philistine" as an insult provides a fascinating insight into the Jewish origins of Christianity.
The Jewish king, Jehu, (kneeling) pays homage to the Assyrian ruler, Shalmaneser III in 841 BC.
PHOENICIANS - FOREMOST TRADERS OF THEIR TIME
A number of other smaller White civilizations sprang up at this time in this region, each of them contributing in their own way to the advancement of civilization. Amongst them were the Phoenicians, who through trade established themselves as a powerful nation in the Mediterranean. Their home base was in present day Lebanon, an area which they had occupied by the year 2700 BC.
Although originally a Mediterranean people, there is evidence to suggest that during their long stay in Lebanon and Palestine, the Phoenicians absorbed a fair amount of Semitic blood, being ruled by the Hebrews for a significant period of time.
However, the Phoenicians were also ruled by the Egyptians and Hittites in turn, and by this time had started to exhibit the physical characteristics associated with Nordic, Mediterranean and Semites. The Phoenicians were then a mix of Old European, Indo-European and Semitic speaking peoples.
The Phoenicians are credited with the creation of the modern alphabet - this is a slight exaggeration. The Phoenicians took the semi-alphabet script developed by the Egyptians, adopted it and used it as a means for their trade. This basic alphabet was picked up by later Greeks and developed into Greek script.
From this Greek script the modern alphabet was developed over a much longer period of time. At best then, the Phoenicians can claim to having been one link in the process of the development of the modern alphabet.
The Phoenicians became famous as traders, establishing settlements all over the Mediterranean basin, including on the Italian peninsula and in Spain. In 800 BC, the Phoenicians founded the city of Carthage, in present day Tunis, just opposite the bottom of the Italian peninsula. Carthage came to be peopled by a large number of different peoples, but retained its essentially Mediterranean/Nordic mix right until the time of its wars with Rome.
The most famous Carthaginian military leader, Hannibal, who was the scourge of Rome for many years, was a very clear Nordic sub racial type, coming from a noble family in Carthage. Although Carthage was eventually destroyed by the Romans, it lasted longer than then Phoenician cities in Lebanon which were razed in 750 BC by new Indo-European led invaders, the Assyrians.
THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE - WORLD'S FIRST POSTAL SYSTEM
The next large empire in the Middle East was established by the originally Indo-Aryan Assyrians (the word Assyrian is a corruption of the word Aryan) who, from their base in modern day Syria, captured Babylon in 910 BC. In 722 BC, the Assyrians captured Palestine and by 671 BC their empire extended as far as the Nile delta.
The Assyrians, like the Hittites, had mastered the art of iron working and iron weapons (a skill which had come down from the Indo-Aryan north and had spread with the Indo-Aryan invasions). As such they had a massive advantage over their opponents.
The palace at Persepolis, Persia. A double staircase, decorated with reliefs, led to the magnificent audience hall where the Persian emperors received foreign envoys and visiting dignitaries. Persepolis was built during the reigns of Darius and his successor Xerxes (circa 400 BC). Today it is a ruin, the original Persians gone.
The Assyrian king of this time, Ashurbanipul, was a cultured man and reputedly had a library - probably mostly looted from the Sumerians and Babylonians - of some 22,000 clay tablets at their capital city of Khorsabad.
The Assyrian empire was the first to build a system of national roads and also the first to develop a postal system. The Assyrians also without doubt had the first coherent administrative system and served as a role model for many later civilizations.
By the middle of the 7th century BC the Assyrian empire was on the decline, weakened by a steady dissolution of their original racial homogeneity through increasing mixing with the ever growing numbers of Semites in the region.
Eventually a combination of neighboring Indo-European tribes (Persians, Medeans and Scythians) overthrew the by then mostly mixed race Assyrians and in 612 BC, the Syrian capital, Ninevh, was destroyed.
The downfall of the Syrians left four small powers in the Middle East. These were the Medeans, the Persians, the Lydians and the Chaldeans.
All but the last of these groups were all at this stage still majority White in racial make-up, although large - and soon to be overwhelming - numbers of Semites, Arabics and even Mongols had been integrated into their societies.
These cultures can therefore be categorized as the last but one of the majority White civilizations in the region - not too long after their time the racial mix of the region became overwhelmingly Nonwhite through a shift in the population balance and most vestiges of the old civilizations disappeared along with the Whites - a process which occurred throughout the Near East.
THE MEDEANS
The people known as the Medes had already established an informal empire just to the east of the Assyrians, south of the Caspian sea, in modern day Iran. The Medeans were also noteworthy for their help in the destruction of the Assyrian empire and were in turn overrun by their former colony, Persia, in 550 BC.
However, like so many Indo-European cultures of the region at that time, not only did they have to contend with the local White/Semitic mix population, who continually agitated against them, but also with other Indo-European invaders continually penetrating the region from the north.
The most noted of these new invaders were the Nordic Scythians, who were the first to use mounted cavalry in battle. The Scythians overran what is today Palestine in the 7th century BC, and some of their fair haired and fair eyed descendants can still be seen today amongst the Druses of Lebanon. Eventually however the Medeans and the Scythians joined forces and together they overran the Assyrians, sacking the capital Ninevh in 612 BC.
To add to all this confusion, beginning about 1400 BC, a new wave of migrations changed the face of practically all western Asia. From the Balkan Peninsula came a wave of different Indo-European tribes, who became known as the Sea Peoples, overran the Hittite Empire in Turkey and launched attacks on Syria, Palestine and Egypt itself.
An Indo-European people called Mushki, who settled in eastern Anatolia, became a constant threat to Assyria in the northwest.
THE PERSIANS
The Iranian plateau was settled about 1500 BC by Indo-European tribes, the most important of which were the Medes, who occupied the northwestern portion, and the Persians.
The Persians were dominated by the Medes until the accession to the Persian throne in 550 BC of the Persian Cyrus the Great. He overthrew the Median rulers, conquered two neighboring kingdoms (including Babylonia in 539 BC) and established the Persian Empire as the preeminent power of the Middle East.
Cyrus tried to be a benevolent ruler. In Sumeria he allowed the dominant religion of the time to approve his assumption of the Babylonian kingship, while in Jerusalem he launched the rebuilding of the Jewish temple. The result of his endeavors was an empire of diverse peoples which was ultimately to lead to Persia's undoing.
Cyrus son, Cambyses II, extended the Persian realm even further by conquering the (by then thoroughly mixed race) Egyptians in 525 BC. Darius I, who ascended the throne in 521 BC, pushed the Persian borders as far eastward as the Indus River, had a canal constructed from the Nile to the Red Sea, and reorganized the entire empire, earning the title Darius the Great.
From 499 to 493 BC Darius the Great engaged in crushing a revolt of the Ionian Greeks living under Persian rule in Asia, and then launched a punitive campaign against the Greeks for supporting the rebels. His forces were disastrously defeated by the Greeks at the historic Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
His successor, Xerxes I, also tried to defeat the Greeks, but was in turn defeated in the great sea engagement the Battle of Salami in 480 BC and in two successive land battles in the following year.
The forays of the Persian King Xerxes I were the last notable attempt at expansion of the Persian Empire - by this stage the Aryan tribes had absorbed the Semitic and Asiatic immigrants into the region, and had started to unravel as a homogeneous nation.
Left:The Alexander Sarcophagus, circa 310 BC. Archaeological Museum, Istanbul. Also known as the Sarcophagus of Sidon, the city in which it was first found. Right: Details from the Alexandrian Sarcophagus: two Persian heads from the time of Alexander the Great. Both are Nordic sub-racial types, and the originals are color painted with fair hair and blue eyes.
INDIAN DEPICTIONS OF PERSIANS AS NORDICS AND MIXED RACIAL TYPES
At the time when the Greek writer Xenophon praised what he called "tall beautiful Persian women" (during the 6th century BC), the Persian envoys to India were depicted in still existent paintings in the Ajanta caves outside Bombay as light skinned, blue eyed and blond, or dark skinned and blue eyed with a fair beard. (Ujflvy, L'Anthropologie, vol. ii., 1900). This is the first tangible sign that the Indo-European Persians had started mixing with the darker natives of their land.
By the fourth century, this process had spread dramatically to where only a very few of the ruling class could still claim pure Indo-European ancestry. Finally the already largely mixed race Persians were to be overrun by the new White force in the region: the Indo-European Macedonians under Alexander the Great in a series of battles between 334 and 331 BC.
ZARATHUSTRA AND HIS INFLUENCE ON CHRISTIANITY
The Persians built vast and very good roads for the efficient administration of their huge empire, but are probably best remembered for their religion called Zoroastrianism. Founded by a prophet named Zarathustra, the basic religious concept of a never ending battle between good and evil supernatural powers, was later plagiarized by the early Christians and worked into the biblical New Testament (the concepts of heaven and hell are not mentioned at all in the Christian Old Testament).
WHITES IN THE MIDDLE EAST SUBMERGED CIRCA 250 BC
The fall of the Persian Empire marks the end of the great majority White civilizations in the Near East. By this time virtually all of the settlements in the greater region had lost whatever racial homogeneity they once had, and were to larger or smaller degrees societies comprised of a plethora of mixed races, producing the wide and varied physiognomy visible to this day in the region - a mix of Semitic and original White stock.
From the time of the fall of the Persian Empire however, the near East ceased to be an area which was majority occupied by peoples who could claim to be White in the original racial sense of the word. Nonetheless, to this day there remain significant Indo-European genetic throwbacks amongst the Persians, today called the Iranians, as is the case throughout the entire Near and Middle East, from India, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and even amongst the Palestinians. Even the modern day word for Persia - Iran - is derived from their ancient racial roots, the Aryans (as is the case with Iraq and even the very word India).
Persia was overrun by the Arabic Muslims in 651 AD, and through the integration which followed the last major traces of the pure Indo-European peoples in the Middle East was diluted.
Indeed, much of what later became known as Muslim culture, architecture, writing and other skills, were taken from the Persians into the rest of the Semitic speaking world.
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