hello everyone and welcome
to this is Asia and here's the United
Arab Emirates now let's go shall we
what's it like here on the Arabian
Peninsula it's very hot and mostly
desert but long long ago this land was
also mostly desert but before that it
was green and verdant and ancient rock
art shows that there were strange
Antelope creatures living there with big
squiggly horns and of course there are
no animals like that
anymore H anyway over the Millennia
Arabia became home to various cultures
around 1,000 BC the people domesticated
the camel which helped with trade and
the people ate dates and made daggers to
kill each other especially people who
stole dates part of the land also fell
to the Persians and there was a clever
water supply system built that supplied
water some say the system began in Iran
some say Arabia actually it was me but
moving on Coastal settlements gained
wealth via trade the Greeks recording
the exports from this part of Arabia
being pearls gold wine slaves and of
course dates Iranian control returned
with the sassanian Empire but that ended
in the 7th Century with the uniting of
the Arab Clans under the religion of
Islam which conquered and has dominated
the peninsula ever since so the
centuries swished away and Pearls became
the main stay of the Region's economy
then in the 1500s the Portuguese barged
their way into the region and its Trade
Network and built a number of forts to
protect its interests by the 18th
century however Portuguese power had
diminished as the Dutch and British
ascended and Coastal Arab tribes began
stepping up their interest in Maritime
Affairs the AL aasim began targeting
British Merchant ships and killing their
Crews this angered Britain whose Navy at
the time was busy fighting Napoleon in
1809 however Britain sent a punitive
force that succeeded in Sinking many
kasmi vessels but failed to stop the
piracy so the British returned and
brutally crushed the elkaim destroyed
their forts towns and ships and those of
Allied shakes the aftermath was that the
British signed a treaty with the
Region's shakes and piracy was
effectively dismantled in the local this
portion of Arabia was afterwards called
the tral states after the truce signed
in 1853 that ensured peace but there was
still conflict between the Arabs for
example the war between the Emirate of
Abu Dhabi and Qatar these Emirates
became a protectorate of the British
Empire in 1892 but were generally left
free to govern themselves in the 20th
century the Pearl industry crumbled
after the Japanese developed the
cultured Pearl industry but then oil was
discovered which would provide the
enormous wealth of the Emirates by the
1960s the British decided it was too
costly to maintain their military
presence there and announced they would
be withdrawing their forces Iran went
woohoo and invaded and took control of
these islands meanwhile the ruler of Abu
Dhabi pushed for the Emirates to unify
and they did and in 1971 the United Arab
Emirates was born made up of 1 2 3 4 5 6
and later seven Emirates these two chose
to be their own countries anyway zad
became the first president and under his
leadership the UAE used its massive
income from oil to build build build big
buildings designed by some of the
world's finest Architects the population
becoming outnumbered by Foreign workers
who nevertheless were not and are not
allowed their own unions nor are they
allowed to go on strike anyway the UAE
today despite some human rights issues
has a very high level of human
development and is one of the richest
nations in the world with a strong
tourist industry cities like Dubai
attracting visitors to the sparkly
attractions of its oil veined
wonderlands but what awaits the UAE in
the years ahead comment below but for
now bye-bye
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