5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers

&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;islam&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7go26a&#x2F;the_hour_will_not_begin_until_the_land_of_the&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;islam&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7go26a&#x2F;the_hour_will...</a><p>&gt; It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until the land of the Arabs once again becomes meadows and rivers.”<p>When I was a teenager, I was interested in what people used to say about the future in the past and this was the one thing that ever stuck out to me in my readings.<p>I guess it was common knowledge among the knowledgeable at the time that this was true but I was never able to corroborate it.

<i>Changes in the earth&#x27;s orbit known as its orbital precession, a change in tilt that cycles every 25,000 years, forced the African monsoon rains southward, and the Sahara became drier.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apsidal_precession" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apsidal_precession</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Milankovitch_cycles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Milankovitch_cycles</a>

And just 2 millenniums ago, around 140 B.C., when Romans conquered Carthage (now Tunisia), it was a fertile land and its wheat fields produced enough food to feed the Rome.

Is this suggesting that modern civilization started with climate change? At the end, he points out that the occupants of these areas moved towards the coasts during the desertification. This would have been immediately preceding the establishment of the first Egyptian dynasty.

Twitter is such a terrible way of displaying long form content like this.

Do we know the size and health of the Amazon at this time?<p>I’ve read that the Amazon relies on silt carried from the Sahara.

This video puts a lot of it together: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z0_Of0WGkEs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z0_Of0WGkEs</a><p>He starts with science and reaches into speculation, but, there&#x27;s real, interesting science in it.

What a striking map that is. It makes me curious how big the Sahara will get, and how long it will be until it begins shrinking again.

curiously looks like it could be in the trough of a milankovich cycle.

Those people should have really used electric cars back then

Goat?

Even just 500 years ago most of the Sahara was green.