In Central Asia, the Turkic nomads met up with the Muslim and Persian world.
The manifestations of this rising tide have become evident not only in the Muslim world - Arab and Persian, Sunni and Shiite alike.
Accordingly, Moscow should be required to share the burden of the Persian Gulf crisis just as others of the world community are now doing.
The petro-pessimists' most forceful argument is that the Persian Gulf, officially home to most of the world's oil reserves, is overrated.
The sanctions announced Monday are likely to escalate tensions with Iran, which recently threatened to block off the Strait of Hormuz, a valuable waterway near the Persian Gulf that carries about 20% of the world's oil shipments.
Even in the Mideast a handful of smaller Persian Gulf states are reminders that openness to the secular world can be a ticket to postpetroleum prosperity.
But he also has said that the United States would be able to take steps if Tehran were to attempt to block the Strait of Hormuz, the outlet of the Persian Gulf and a choke point for much of the world's oil.
In the former instance, Lynas reminds me of a young Sir Mark Sykes carving the Persian Gulf into sovereign political states in the wake of World War One without recognizing the most salient assumptions implicit in those political boundaries and the vast consequences they would create.
Later in the afternoon, Cheney, the vice president-elect, ascended a stage at Washington's George Washington University for his formal "Salute to America's Veterans, " an afternoon of tributes to veterans of World War II and the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf conflicts.
The strongest economies of the high-income world ( Norway, Canada, Australia, some Persian Gulf countries) produce oil and gas, coal, industrial minerals or food for the expanding global marketplace.
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The compass was also invented in China, and records exist of how a great fleet was sent under the command of Admiral Zheng He in the early 15th century to show the Chinese imperial flag in the ports of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, a fleet said to be the largest seen in the world up to that time.
As a remnant of the Persian Empire, the cylinder is a source of pride for Iranians around the world.
Gary Friedman was not born to a world of 800-gram-weight Turkish towels and hand-knotted Persian rugs.
Anyone who has done anything but the most cursory reading about the Eastern Front in the Second World War knows that the use of human wave attacks is hardly a uniquely Persian phenomenon.
If prices were to rise sharply for reasons other than a Persian Gulf supply choke-off, it would be because of strong economic growth around the world.
But, outside of that world is the growing emergence of government debt in Asia, Chile, Brazil and the Persian Gulf states.
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Beneath your feet spreads out the world's largest carpet, made by a 1, 200-strong army of the finest Persian carpet weavers.
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