Reddit reviews Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

Nice, Silkroads is on my to read list, didn't know it talked about the Levant that much.

Nassim Taleb mentioned once, that the Levant, was the most economically prospersous region of the world for the longest time, from the discovery of agriculture to arguably the demise of the ottoman empire.

On that topic i think you'd like this book Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean basically focuses on the three great trade cities of the Ottoman Empire Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut

Anyways, If you look at it through the context of history, the norm is for our region to be booming, it just seems that by fluke we were born at a time when its going through its current phase. 70 years of instability vs +4000 years of mostly prominence. Our current period is only temporary in the grad scheme of things i guess