Why 82% of Saudi Arabians Just Live in These Lines

[@kairos_fluent]

I think a video about the Balkans geography and how that influenced the history and politics of that region would be very interesting.

[@kartikpoojari22]

True

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

I heard the Balkans are very toxic place when it comes to geopolitics

[@fromixty]

I second this

[@effix9097]

I don’t think he wants a bomb in his mailbox.

[@AlexeiLjanej]

This video was pretty trash imo

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Only RealLifeLore has the power to turn a very simple question into a 40 minute documentary lol Which is why I love these videos so much. So much detail and research is done to tell us what’s going on.

[@jacobyellesbury5880]

Right

[@philipmeisterl]

Very hot Oil Thats the video pretty much :D

[@ruatsangawhite7261]

tekking101

[@nanonite4355]

college professors do too, just in a less elegant way...

[@maxthebuild]

@@walterbrunswick ??

[@saadalameri]

I always asked my parents and grandparents how did they manage to live before air-conditioning, they told me that the old mud houses in Arabia were cooler from the inside than the modern concrete homes, also the effect of heat islands didn’t exist back then, but an important factor is that the further from the coast you live the cooler it gets by night

[@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii]

The US will send ebola gay bomber plane.

[@realABN]

Mine told me that before air conditioning existed in Abu Dhabi there body was just naturally used to the heat. Dunno how they used to live without air conditioners but thank god for them :D

[@saadalameri]

@@realABN the burjeels in gulf houses were very useful in cooling as well, and for Abu Dhabi natives a lot of them used to go back and forth between abu Dhabi and Al Ain (which is much less humid) depending on the season

[@realABN]

@@saadalameri Thats true! Also from what i’ve heard the burjeels weren’t for everyone as the majority of the people built themselves houses from Palm tree trunks (بيت السعف/جذع النخله)

[@ahmedkhanchangwani2077]

Yup you are right there is always heat in Jeddah through out year no fog no rain or anything

[@smallsignals]

Thank-you for being so kind as to do both Fahrenheit and Celsius. A lot of people wouldn't bother. It's much appreciated.

[@BK-gl8it]

yeah thats really cool. When I first heard more than 100 degrees I was really shocked but then the next word was Fahrenheit...

[@edwardmarquis4411]

It's funny that Britain is/has converted to the metric system but we here in the US have not. We adopted the imperial system from them. The only thing I can think of that uses the metric system is on large soft drink containers. 2 litre coke bottles is common.

[@solconcordia4315]

​@@edwardmarquis4411 A U.S.A.-Government agency such as N.A.S.A. uses the metric system but our American private industries are so *massive* that they cannot convert to the metric system without losing "the number sense" of the scientists and engineers. The simple discipline to avoid billions of dollars mistakes is to always consider the unit as a multiplicative factor of the quantity being expressed and always divide or multiply by 1 to do the unit conversions. 1 inch = 2.54 cm means 1 = 2.54 cm/inch so 0.5 inch = 0.5 inch × 1 = 0.5 inch × 2.54 cm/inch = 0.5 × 2.54 cm = 1.27 cm.

[@TheMarioMen1]

Yea I know right? Who uses Celsius lmao 😂 get our euro friends have to watch these videos too

[@gg_rider]

Yeah, I love both those guys channels. They're hot! 😂😂

[@thesuperiorman8342]

I'm from the eastern part of Saudi on the coast, and your description of the climate there is spot on. The scorching heat, the humidity and lack of wind and rain makes life there very difficult. It is impossible to live without air conditioners. I always wondered how our forefathers lived there.

[@jillybe1873]

I asked someone to ask her dad who lived in a tent when he was young and he told her they were just tough. 😊

[@ToBeIsWasWere]

only very few people lived there for obvious reasons and they were nrmads so they didn't really stay at one specific place.

[@madani8]

​@Mister.Bone_Saw 😮 .. qatif is so old ... Bahrain is so old .. inhabited for thousands of years

[@nebula_star14]

@@Mister.Bone_Saw how would cities be off shore?

[@BlueBD]

if anyone lived there it was not longterm.

[@kitxxxxxxx]

Ive driven through part of that desert. It was a very long drive. When we stopped for a break there was no wind. I've never heard actual silence before that. Like literally, nothing. And you could only see sky and sand. Was beautiful and peaceful, but also chilling and humbling to be so completely surrounded by nature and one which is so barren, you couldn't survive.

[@أبنالأمازيغالمغربى]

The Saudis were bandits and robbed pilgrims before the oil boom They want a rabble of sheep and eat desert reptiles. Ignorance is the face of the black Saudis

[@DiegodelaVega446]

في اي طريق كنت ؟

[@MikeAlabbasi]

Which route was it? Was it the road to Salwa? It's the road that takes you to 🇶🇦 Qatar and 🇦🇪 UAE.

[@yaroubthayer-752]

The only thing I like about deserts, it’s they are very clean due to absence of organic stuff. Also gazing into the horizon can give you funny sensations in your belly lol.

[@Naif79]

@@MikeAlabbasiجميل جدا .. انا اعيش في السعودية ولم اقم بتجربة كهذه من قبل 😢

[@drewmur]

I feel like geography is an often overlooked or underestimated factor when people study history. Many of your videos that focus on geography highlight how geography plays an important role in world events. Keep up the good work

[@bananawitchcraft]

Oh yeah, geography is the container and we're all just water droplets being poured into it lol

[@menalgharbwalsharq648]

People who actually study history knows those things, but self educated youtubers that copy and paste wikipedia stuff are usually not that thorough. RealLifeLore may have an actual degree in history or anthropology

[@Emc4421]

I was in a Vegas last week playing poker, and the man sitting next to me was working for the Saudi government. Sent to study Las Vegas. He was telling me Saudi is trying to diversify from oil and expand tourism. Friendly guy, enjoyed playing with him.

[@yaroubthayer-752]

I think Las Vegas has the Colorado running nearby. Unfortunately, some of KSA biggest problems lies in the absence of rivers or a river.

[@thedictationofallah]

He was probably playing in Las Vegas because it's illegal to gamble in Saudi Arabia

[@nickvickers3486]

I've never been to Saudi Arabia, but I've met a few Saudis over the years and they tend to be honest decent and friendly people. Often with a good sense of humour too

[@ahhhahhhahhhahhhahhh]

But don’t They consider gambling Haram ? I think he was just playing for him self 😆

[@sumomaster5585]

@@nickvickers3486 usually rich ppl tend to be honest cuz why lie? and with lation like culture you can see why they are usually friendly.

[@LPArabia]

As a Saudi, I find this report grim but honest analysis of the geographical far future of the Arabian peninsula and it's it's emerging "artificial" civilization. But we are taking this challenge seriously and there is a huge investment in technology and R&D to solve the water problem and defy nature. This will be our test lab if we ever go on Mars. Thanks for the compressive video RLL!

[@abhimanyusuryawanshee4470]

Bruh do you pee crude oil 🙃

[@sonsonjaha]

​@abhimanyusuryawanshee4470 you should ask the Americans that. They have the highest oil producing rates

[@dr.woozie7500]

I hope your laborers revolt so they can get themselves basic human rights.

[@naifal-baloushi4065]

How come is honest saying we still have slaves in the country 🤔 It’s forbidden to confiscate worker passports and now the workers have the freedom to shift to other companies not like before.

[@mohammedz8740]

​​@@dr.woozie7500does all the American buildings get built by magic?😂

[@FRIEDYOGURT-s4c]

i used to live in the uae, and i can say that riding these dunes in a quadbike in winter time was some of the most fun ive ever experienced, it truly felt like you were free

[@namantherockstar]

RealLifeLore inspires me.. My parents said if i get 40K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

[@Anna-xm2mw]

Many women buried in a desert...

[@pinchevulpes]

@@namantherockstarkeep begging 😂😂😂😂

[@zepwafels]

@@namantherockstar lmfaooo

[@hyamick7584]

@@Anna-xm2mwwtf does that even mean lmao

[@anhadsinha1531]

I live in Dubai, and the humidity actually makes the heat of the desert exponentially worse and makes it impossible to do anything outdoors like exercise or walking or even commuting because you just start sweating when you leave a AC filled room.

[@ToBeIsWasWere]

Why would you willingly live there? Nature is screaming at Dubai that it isn't suitable for humans but they got earbuds in smh

[@tempaccount7024]

​​​​​​​​​​@@ToBeIsWasWere The living standard is generally higher in the Gulf from what I've seen, especially in Doha and Dubai. Not sure about Dubai, but Doha has no income tax so that's a big incentive to stay as well. There's no real reason to care about the weather either when every single house has AC's and everything you'd need (as in shopping for stuff) is available in malls that are all over the Gulf countries unlike (and much better than) North America. But yeah, exercising and going for a walk outside are things people in the Gulf can only do in spring or in winter. Temps there then are pretty good with the lowest temps in winter being around 5-10 degrees Celsius, depending on the region.

[@dnfrank1]

"...because you just start sweating when you leave a AC filled room". Sounds like Thailand March-July.

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@ToBeIsWasWereyou think a entire city of millions of people should cease to exist?

[@JAYZ999]

@@ToBeIsWasWere so many countries with hot humid summers all around the equator but people love to hate on dubai.

[@RealSaudiExplorer]

I didn't realize that Saudi Arabia is huge before I go to the UAE and Bahrain. Bahrain is so small that I can drive around the whole island in one hour or less. The UAE is also small. I drove from Abu Dhabi to Alfujaira in less than 3 hours. It's also extremely flat. While Saudi Arabia has lots of mountains everywhere.

[@mytromic]

The fact that saudi's biggest airport is bigger then Bahrain is more wild

[@AnaFolkenstal]

This guy goes from explaining things in a very good way, to telling us where coffee comes from, and then making an ad in the process. Mad skills, I love it.

[@Chefmsf]

😭

[@KenPiper]

Yeah that sponsor read at the end was art. Didn't even realize it was an ad until just before he said the brand, and I even learned a few things from it. 😂

[@censored4christ162]

I just think its a rough place man its dessert mostly and most the people actually live not too far from the coast and they worship a rock and walk around it counter clockwise right next to all the global world trade. But they do got that oil we like that.

[@YesItsYez]

@@censored4christ162 The "rock" is Kaaba and it is building not a rock. It is the house of God, the holiest Mosque in Islam. Muslims face to its direction when they pray no matter where they are in the world.

[@namantherockstar]

RealLifeLore inspires me.. My parents said if i get 40K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

[@malekaltayari3936]

Big love from Tunisia 🇹🇳🌹🇸🇦 حبايبنا اهل المملكة ❤

[@SSADO-]

حياك الله من السعودية 🇸🇦💚🇹🇳

[@fisalalmalki6090]

الله يحيك، القناة هذه تبث سموم وتقول عننا متطرفين وتحاول تنفر الناس منا.

[@Vgoahe]

حبيبي تسلم يابعد راسي انتو ياهل تونس 🇹🇳🇸🇦

[@Faresgamerr]

تسلم ياحبايبنا من تونس 🇹🇳

[@Obscure_sniper97]

تونس الخضراء واهلها الرائعين حفظكم الله 🇸🇦🇹🇳

[@Ten.ofcups]

I am from the south west of Saudi a city called Al Baha and we have clean sources of water, rain is always pouring. we where an agricultural society for all of our history, sadly majority of us have left our villages for job opportunities in bigger cities

[@jqbyteam]

I visited your city like a week ago I live in Saudi too but in al-gqabeea ( a village)

[@Ten.ofcups]

@@jqbyteam and how was it?

[@hammadkhan11280ehis]

I Am From Pakistan 🇵🇰 Born In Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 We Were Living In Yanbu I Miss Saudi Arabia So Much 😩🥺

[@coscorrodrift]

Where do you live now?

[@Ten.ofcups]

@@coscorrodrift the capital

[@sakurasai781]

I live in the capital Riyadh and we go to Abha (a city in the southern region) almost every summer, because July and August here in Riyadh can quite literally be deadly if we weren’t so adapted and used to the weather. In contrast, winters here are cold and dry, sometimes rainy and thunderstormy. I guess that’s just how desert climates work. Also, that’s why we collectively hate the summer here lol.

[@أبنالأمازيغالمغربى]

The Saudis were bandits and robbed pilgrims before the oil boom They want a rabble of sheep and eat desert reptiles. Ignorance is the face of the black Saudis

[@Ghadah_]

Don’t forget about the almost weekly sand/dust storms, you clean the car and within three days you’ll find it dirty again lol

[@abukitten]

So, is it mostly cloudy during the winter? Or only cloudy when it rains?

[@Ghadah_]

@@abukitten It only gets cloudy a day before rain, but yeah it gets cloudy without raining sometimes. Riyadh is a big city so we see clouds in the south of Riyadh but it only rains at the north of Riyadh for example.

[@n5roor]

​@@Ghadah_There aren't weekly sand storms. In fact, not even monthly due to the recent environmental preservation initiatives.

[@glike2]

After living in Saudi Arabia from 1981 to 1982, I really appreciate these videos. It wasn't a special experience with all the exploring adventures we did and swimming in the Red Sea coral reefs. We also did a trip from Jeddah to Yemen, camping along the way. It's a uniquely beautiful country.

[@seneca983]

"It wasn't a special experience" Did you mean "was" rather than "wasn't"?

[@nothuman3083]

I work with water, irrigation, well digging, and hydrology. The Saudi government has offered me everything to work there. 250k plus bonuses, a house that looks like a castle, cars, and what can only be described as a honeypot. I have an Eastern European wife, and she likes America and hates sand. For a country, very patriarchal, they are very understanding that my wife told me no. If you want to be a millionaire playboy work with acquiring water and moving it, and move to the gulf countries. They won't even blink at paying you in gold.

[@skyhappy]

​@@nothuman3083Unrelated question, any software ideas that you could see could make your life easier? Any ideas how satellite images could be used?

[@namantherockstar]

RealLifeLore inspires me.. My parents said if i get 40K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..

[@misatzu]

@@seneca983 People simply don't read let alone process what they write anymore. And whenever you ask what they were thinking (if so at all, that is) you get "autoreply" as the - of course totally conclusive - reasoning. Now waiting for my 2nd favorite airhead response, "dude this is only the internet" ...

[@yellowdicesam]

Nice, it's another one of these regarding how literally 70% of land has horrible climate and terrain to the point it's unliveable. They're always interesting, as this applies to copious amounts of countries and the reasons vary just enough for there to be new knowledge I can comprehend every time (for me, at least)

[@soundscape26]

Yes but I bet he didn't need 37 minutes to explain that.

[@yellowdicesam]

​@@soundscape26 haven't got through the video yet but probably not. there are many intricate details he'll probably dive into though

[@justArandomfellar]

Many countries population live in only a few areas and are concentrated in some places, take for example Canada and China and Russia

[@ummerfarooq5383]

70%? You mean 95%

[@Eternalyouthenjoyer]

“How did you know I’m a redditor?!”

[@eonarose]

The Arabian peninsula was actually green a few 100,000 years ago and was inhabited by early humans, so it’s not necessarily true that it was uninhabited for all of human history until recently.

[@abdullahalbaz6491]

And it will return that way, filled with revers and forest. Look it up

[@MrThhg]

Probably happened more then once during early humans etc.

[@samkim6127]

That would explain how the Lake Erie size underground aquifer got there.

[@Umayyadazi]

It's far much earlier than that, 6000 years ago to be exact it was green.

[@robmerrill3460]

Along with north Africa.

[@greentoby26]

That's quite the long version of "It's a desert."

[@abdullah_alhothali515]

(Guys give me like to let my comment rise and everyone see hem) This video has a lot of wrong informations , and i will reply to it and let all know the real First, this brother say that this two lines has a 80% of saudi population First the brother forget that this two lines has 20% from saudi land area " without the empty quarter " which is 300,000 km2 to 1,500,000 km2 Second, the brother is lying on the real numbers and say that it is 80% from the saudi population, while in the real the population on this two lines is 21 million / 33 million of saudi population, that means it's 60% from total saudi population, increase 20% in this case means he create 7 million people from nothing Note : i said it's 21 million if that inclunding abha and khamis mushait and baha region, i see it's not but this is just a gift from me to let the number higher😂 if we don't count them, it will be 19m inside and 14m outside Third, he say that on out of this lines there is no Inhabited place except medina, while in the real there is 12 (or 14) million people out of the lines, and medina is just 1.5 million people Fourth, he lied in the real reason that it's have 60% of saudi arabia population in him, he said the reason is that there is too much rain in the western part of Saudi Arabia and the western coasts I hope it's real but it's not, let me prove that you are a wrong and you speak with ignorance First, middle and north middle and north east of saudi arabia, rains more than the west saudi rains For example the average rain in riyadh is 2 times more than jeddah and madinah and yenbo And average rain in hafr al batin 3 times more than yenbo and 2 times from medina and jeddah And average rain in al gassim is higher than yenbo and jeddah and makkah and even jizan , Each separately Fifth, talking about weather and temperatures, then lies, he say that west of saudi arabia and south west is more cool and modeartion, that called tihamh Man , tihamh in the summer in dry mode is between 42-45 degrees celsius, and that marked in 7 uncoastal tihamh cities ( makkah, sabya, abu arish, muhayil, al majardah , bariq , al mokhwah ) And in the humid mode, it's between 39-42 degrees celsius with a high humidity makes the "feel temperatures" above 45 degrees celsius, and this marked in 5 coastal tihamh cities ( jeddah, yenbo, al gunfuthah, jizan, al lith ) so if compared between makkah and riyadh on average summer maximum and minimum temperatures, we see that riyadh is higher by maximum temp by less than 1 degree just on july and august While makkah is higher by more than 2 degrees in maximum temp, on may and june and september, and higher on the minimum temp by 2-3 degrees, in may and june and july and august and septermber Without counting humidity, that in tihamah even uncoastal cities has a some humidity And talk long, but we can see that there is no one place on saudi arabia has a moderation weather on summer except of sarawat mountains , but it's have just 1 million people so it's not that high on population And ofcourse the summer in tihamh is long for 7 months, while in najd just 4 and half months, and the moderation months najd has a 7 months and tihamh just 3 months Sixth, after all your follies The real reason to be 60% of saudi population, on this two lines ( knowing that he is 20% of the land area ) Is just because it has the major cities 😄 the man have talked long, and join to weather and rain Topics, and in the end if you just take makkah and jeddah and riyadh You will see that the lines will drop from 21 million to just 7 million And the Percentage from saudi population will down from 60% to 20%, hope you dont talked about it😂 So Instead of said that the line has a majorest 3 cities, and said that it's normal when you collected the majorest cities the percentage from country population will be high.. You start to say uncorrect informations And ofcourse the 3 cities being in one line was just a coincidence And each one become major for another reason than the second And in the real, the number of cities out of the line is more than the cities in him And the number of population out of the line is not far to the number in him I wish if i can put a photo, to put map showing cities on saudi arabia higher than 70k population, it's 46 cities Inside the line just 19 cities And out of him a 27 cities😂 the just reason that out of the line is 12 million while inside him is 21 million, is the two cities of riyadh and jeddah And they are 900km from each other, that means they have nothing to do with each other If you take them from the line to out of him, it's will be 22 million / 11 million Literally reversed😂 And outside the lines, there a medinah province except yenbo, eastern province except dammam, gassim province, ha'il province, najran province, eastern borders province, al-jouf province, tabuk province, baha province, 60% of asir province population I wish if i just has 1 day without see someone from : medina tabuk hail najran al-gassim al-jouf eastern province northern borders al-baha asir !, outside lines is really huge populated And inside the lines is more populated just for riyadh makkah and jeddah .. don't lying bro this is better for you !! Also in the past the most populated was : north and east and west and south, not just the west and south You talk about the biggest saudi tribes in the number even on the past, otaibah al-dawasser anizah shammar mutair harb and even more All was living on najd ! and some of them was on the north of saudi arabia Also the saudi arabia population now, has: 2.5 million on makkah city _________________ 3 million on the north 3.5 million on the middle "except riyadh" 3.75 million on jeddah city Here all are 3-5 million👈 4.0 million on the west " except makkah and jeddah " 4.5 million on the south 5.0 million on the east _________________ 7.0 million on riyadh city So it's a really perfect Mounting from 3 to 4 to 5M on all districts of the country Just when count the majorest 3 cities alone Unlike some countries ! Who no who i mean The dude from this channel put the western north and west and western south and middle and mid east parts ot the country including by coincidence the most and second most populated cities After that he said why saudi just live on this place , and make the population on the place higher by 8 million from the real from nothing .. it's really a bad lie I will give a example on england London and brimingham and manchester has a 17m/50m of england population That means 35% I will draw a small line between them dosen't contains anything except them.. and i will lie that this line has 80% of england population ! While it is clear that it lied in its real population, and a line that contains only the largest cities that met by coincidence or the line has been crooked deliberate to let them met And i will say that the line has most england population because of the high rain precipitation 😂😂

[@abdullah_alhothali515]

Even the desert is manned read my reply

[@fxthePunisher]

😂😂😂😂

[@Cec9e13]

Well, now you understand WHY it is a desert, how inhospitable of a desert it is, and why, and why it is never going to not be so.

[@Anurag-ig4uh]

"It's a desert" can apply to all the Sahara countries, Mongolia, Antarctica etc. Simple questions can have complex and detailed answers :)

[@Lordjunon]

One of my favorite aspects of this channel and its a small thing is when temperatures are compared in both F and C and size comparisons to the US and Europe.

[@petermgruhn]

I noted that favourably as well.

[@ElusiveTy]

Size comparisons to the US and the rest of the world?

[@Lordjunon]

@@ElusiveTy KM and Miles.

[@nickvickers3486]

Definitely, I'm good with either miles or kilometres but I'm lost with farenheight!

[@fvux5393]

For those interested in that first crossing of the Empty Quarter; It was done by Wilfred Thesiger and he wrote a fascinating book about it called "Arabian Sands". It is an amazing read and is by far one of the most beautiful semi-autobiographical book I've ever read!

[@scoobydoobers23]

I feel like we are really forgetting about the numerous Bedouins whose names are lost to time who crossed it before him. I'm sure it was uncommon but I'm equally sure some crazy guy loaded some camels with water and crosses the dune sea far before a famous white guy did it.

[@sugar-daddykhayreddin1115]

Most likely a fabricated stories like many of these so called european explorers.

[@alhomsiyyah]

​@setht593 literally. You'd think Europeans discovered the whole of the Middle East with the way they talk about their "accomplishments".

[@scoobydoobers23]

@@alhomsiyyah The Europeans did civilize the world after all. Where would we be without their Arabic numerals.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

That era was really crazy for exploration. Everyone had to get a chance to be the first at something.

[@mohammadsuhail27]

This guy can draw line on every country.

[@henlohenlo689]

Fax

[@ToBeIsWasWere]

he can draw lines on me if he wants ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@yoshadxw5624]

@@ToBeIsWasWeregey

[@asurawolff8384]

@@ToBeIsWasWere yo what?🗿

[@adsfgfghfhdfghkjtyuty4311]

Like a true british

[@Alvaro1ization]

I want to visit Saudi Arabia sooo bad!! Such a fascinating country for me. Best wishes to all Saudis from Spain!

[@thebeatnumber]

You both sound dumb.

[@OceanHedgehog]

Please don't visit. Didn't you see the video? It's basically a slave state. Don't support that.

[@rngxkillers2941]

Watching from jeddah 🇸🇦 ur vids are very interesting to watch i love ur channel keep up the good work 👍

[@absaw5735]

One piece of info was a bit inaccurate. Yes, Dammam is a very recently developed and inhabited city, relatively, but not the entirety of the region. Bahrain and the region of Qatif (on the shore of the Gulf in Saudi) are pretty ancient. I'm from Qatif, the region was very small and surrounded by Gulf water and land was basically an oasis. Our ancestors lived on fishing plus farming dates, and managed to live in the extreme heat by building homes out of mud, and pottery to keep their water in fair temperatures. And had water wells and natural springs to use for farming and bathing. The region was historically temporarily ruled by Turks at some time and Portuguese during a different era as well.

[@absaw5735]

Sadly though, the majority of water streams ran dry during my lifetime, and I'm only in my late 20s. Also, the agriculture here is like 95% gone, mainly due to urbanization. Honestly, at this point I feel that having children has become unethical, with the projectory explained in this video.

[@fuzzyduck1989]

@@absaw5735 move out from there

[@coscorrodrift]

@@absaw5735 Damn that's interesting. Would you say it's a place worth visiting as a tourist nowadays? Like, are these old mud houses and natural springs still there, and are there ways to learn about all that for tourists?

[@أبنالأمازيغالمغربى]

The Saudis were bandits and robbed pilgrims before the oil boom They want a rabble of sheep and eat desert reptiles. Ignorance is the face of the black Saudis

[@qabeelbinadam]

Few more sprinkled around like non-muslims not allowed in mecca, coffee being the alternative of alcohol, foreign workers not doing well etc. On the last note, of course you can't compare an employee and employer in terms of privilege. If you think like that, 99% of the world is in slavery, in the west migrants are forced into flipping burgers, driving drunkard youth and serial killers around, and prostituting out to eat bread, that is moral slavery.

[@aviationdesigner0016]

Now both UAE and Saudi Arabia practice Cloud Seeding. Recently Saudi Arabia nearly got flooded with rain. The average temperature is affected in both countries.

[@ahhhahhhahhhahhhahhh]

When its humid in saudi you know clouds are being seeded 😂

[@خويلد-س7ي]

اللهم استودعتك وطني وشعبي وحكامي🇸🇦🤲

[@Ratabulous]

This has got to be my favorite channel, hands down. Infotainment at its finest, and I feel more educate and aware of the broader world around me. Thank you!

[@collapserelapse]

Funny that you should post this three days ago when I just finished the book 'Arabian Sands', which is Wilfred Thesiger's epic account of his journey through the Empty Quarter in the 1940's. It's great reading for anyone interested in understanding what this place was like before the discovery of oil. He lived among the Bedouin tribes for five years while traversing across this vast desert.

[@asianserenadr7776]

Damn so Saudi Arabians have been living in the line this whole time

[@abd-animation-22]

Always has been As for 52C° hot weather We got used to it

[@zaidhashmi7907]

Heh I like what you did there 😂

[@riderchallenge4250]

The Line 2 is on its way

[@Voltage.Bone.R]

My grandparents not only went through that but didn’t have air conditioners.

[@lukas4112]

I love these videos. So much important and interesting information that you don’t really get anywhere else in this easily digestible way. Thank you for helping so many people understand the world more

[@tyreesellewellyn2680]

I could imagine the amount of research that goes into making these videos, and it's done in such an entertaining and simplified way.

[@أبنالأمازيغالمغربى]

The Saudis were bandits and robbed pilgrims before the oil boom They want a rabble of sheep and eat desert reptiles. Ignorance is the face of the black Saudis

[@evangel1460]

Oh hell yeah, another Real Life Lore video about Saudi Arabia. My favorite content.

[@ignignoktthemooninite3679]

Why's that if I may ask?

[@NohStar]

saudi arabia isn’t a contin… oh

[@justArandomfellar]

Saudia arabia is soon to turn green many studies say

[@Justarandomytmemechannel]

HELL YEH

[@lelouchvibritannia1788]

@@oudplayer8he only said 80% lmao, that still leaves around 3 million people that live outside the marked area

[@camilohiche4475]

Now it's time you make a 30min in depth video of why 80% of my body mass is in my belly.

[@SpeakerWiggin49]

Your overeating and sedentary lifestyle allowing the buildup of interabdominal fat.

[@khalilabushahin418]

​@@SpeakerWiggin49congratulations...if real life lore made this statement he would've needed like 50 minuts to explain why

[@the_man_emperor_of_mankind]

Because you're belly is the center of your being, it stores the energy that lets your body function. And when hard times strike, you've got an extra calorie storage.

[@geigertec5921]

Eat more fats and protien and less sugar and carbohydrates.

[@2idiots2muchtime]

"And these areas on either side are almost completely empty" 😂

[@tradernparadise]

Great segue to coffee at the end. Thanks for the content you do.

[@FairyCRat]

17:12 it is worth noting that Medina doesn't have a prohibition on non-Muslims. Mecca does, but non-Muslims can enter Medina just fine, just not the Nabawi mosque

[@Dfathurr]

Not really. Medina is still considered "Haram" or forbidden for non Muslim, as both Hadith and Jumhur Ulama agreed upon. And its border also explained in Hadith (notably Shahih Ibn Muslim). Saudi government also made some of its borders to declaring such

[@zwerko]

I always wondered how is that enforced. Like, do you need a certificate from a mufti or some such trusted authority in order to enter the city? Or do you need to pass an exam?

[@tervilsnaider3103]

How pitiful of them to treat their outsiders like shit

[@os9706]

@@zwerko No you don’t need anything. For Mecca, most people go there wearing special cloths for Umra and Hajj (pilgrimage). So it’s easy to spot non muslims, most people respect the law and religion and they don’t do it. However, if you were caught entering mecca or the Nabawi mosque (Haram) in Medina, you will be deported from the country and will be banned from entering it for 10 years.

[@zwerko]

@@os9706 But how will they know that I'm not a Muslim? I can put on the said clothes and I can profess to follow Mohammad, how can they prove that I'm not a Muslim?

[@3zzee]

On the positive note, this summer has not been extreme at all, and it's not because of cloud seeding, I barely noticed a cloud the since June here in Jeddah. On top of that, initiative foresting Arabia is underway, as well as cloud seeding during the winter I believe, which for the first time in anyone I know in my, and their lives, we have seen Arabia from our pov, Jeddah Makkah as green medows instead of desert and sand dunes. So very hopeful for the future here

[@MOBXOJ]

Brother it was 41c a couple days ago in Jeddah

[@3zzee]

@@MOBXOJ 41 is not hot for august or july

[@cinderball1135]

The only way forests and grasslands are growing in the desert is by tapping into an unsustainable and finite water supply. Unless desalination becomes MUCH more efficient, these green areas you are talking about will vanish the moment that Saudi Arabia's fresh water stocks are depleted.

[@3zzee]

@@cinderball1135 they were from rain, cloud seeding ofcourse. But if trees manage to grow, which require labor, the climate would change and enable water and food to be naturally more suatainable

[@MOBXOJ]

@@3zzee Maybe in the Arabian desert but in general it burns, and this is coming from someone born in Jeddah

[@erkl8823]

Dude, you're turning us all into eco/geo/socio/political/meteorological/historical/current-events GENIUSES!!

[@KhalidAun1]

Facts 😂😂

[@Howyoufindme-yy-ui]

Temperature average January:16C February:21C March:27C April:34C May:39C June:44C July:48C August:41C September:35C October:29C November:24C December:19C

[@jasonquizon7620]

I'm in Qatar right now. Hot and humid is an understatement. It's like living in an oven, day in day out 😅

[@sabeelsameeullah5784]

I'm driving to qatar 🇶🇦 right now passing by the empty quarter in saudi 🇸🇦 It's peaceful af and driving at night alone is nothing short of an adventure in itself ❤

[@alialii8050]

Long as you’re happy..

[@lapio8222]

@@alialii8050 What a weird comment

[@joeysal007]

if your car somehow gets halted somewhere and networks ceases to exist, how would you possibly survive? Assuming the current Saudis, they aren’t suited to wander in the desert either like their predecessors

[@sabeelsameeullah5784]

​@@joeysal007there's something called highway patrol in saudi - the cops are generally courteous and always there to help

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

​@@sabeelsameeullah5784unless you are a woman

[@Alruwaili11]

As person who lives in the areas what he calls “Completely Empty” i am glad no pollution and No traffic.

[@kunal.khanna]

You guys must have the best night sky.

[@Alruwaili11]

@@kunal.khanna oh yeah you can see the whole Milky Way in the nights without a moon. So majestic.

[@kimtaehyungsock]

@@Alruwaili11sounds beautiful

[@ouranos0101]

KSA is actually an excellent terraforming experiment. If they overcome the environmental hurdles they face and survive/thrive, the path they tread will be useful for future colonies on other planets, as well as extreme weather changes here on Earth.

[@Brandonian]

I think this video was pretty cool. Good ol geography! The desert that Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 occupies is crazy. But it’s even more crazy that they were able to build a pretty cool country regardless of the challenges.

[@Quickshot0]

I guess on the positive side desalination might be something that can adapt to intermittent power sources more easily. At the least, one could in principle over produce water and store it in enormous storage areas that could buffer days or weeks of water usage. So that's something at least when considering an enormous amount of the total energy needs will apparently be in producing drinkable water and getting it where you need it.

[@censored4christ162]

Man problem is they got literslly basically zero farm land. But a lot of them live right on the wirld trade line so maybe they csn import a lot that is already being sold on open market for profit rather than buying some other guys peoples farm and shipping their meal to saudi arabia 😂 this is crazy. I think they need to use the sand to blow glass or something, for export since theyre is lots of them on the world trade route line. Then use the money to import peoples extra food. Problem is that immedietly makes them dependant and not self reliant which is preferrable i just dont know man they live in a dessert and so i do but i also have civilization which is around on all sides as well which helps

[@fuzzyhair321]

And they have the desert to just get rid of the waste salt

[@xBINARYGODx]

EDIT - nvm didnt watch the entire video, they do this already, I mean, not exactly, but close enough for a comment. I mean, the area is ripe for mass, massive evaporators that could work similar to the sort of salt mining that exists at coasting reactions (flood an area and let it evaporate and the salt left behind is "mined"). to be overly specific, if you put a roof over it, you can trap the water as it leaves. Yes, the real version is more complex, but it doesn't matter, they have the money to build a ton of them and have clean water for way more than just themselves, and as the Nile proves, enough to create a man-made Nile to supply massive farmlands in certain areas. They can even power all of this with solar and batteries.

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

​@@fuzzyhair321but that's not how desalination plants do it. They take brine, and produce potable water and super concentrated brine which is pumped a short way out to sea, and then destroys the ecosystems.

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

​@@fuzzyhair321also, even though rain is rare it does happen, and when it does it would wash the salt into the very precious ground water.

[@fadyal-qaisy5213]

حقد و حسد الغربيين تعدى كل حد و جاوز كل مدى. اقرؤوا التعليقات يا عرب. الله يحفظ شبه الجزيرة العربية من شر كل حاقد و حاسد، محبكم من فلسطين 🇵🇸

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

I would love it if you would provide the sources that you use when researching these videos! I am one of those geeks who loves to do further research into such topics, but I couldn’t find any sources in your description. I know that most people probably aren’t interested in such things, but there are still a lot of people who are, and it would be a great help to us if you could point us in the right direction! I know that you have recommended audible books before (I am not a fan of them, as they locked me out of my account and not only kept charging me for two books every month for the next year, but I lost the hundreds of books that I had already paid for), and I’ve been pleased to see that I’ve already read almost all of the books that you’ve recommended through them! However, you also talk about a lot of topics that I don’t know much about, so you’ve evidently studied sources that would be new and fascinating to me, and I would love to get my hands on them! Please consider adding a references section in the description of your videos. You clearly put so much work and research into your videos. You are objective, knowledgeable, and your maps and visuals are quite possibly the best that I have seen on KZbin! By adding your sources, you would not only be demonstrating just how much work you put into your videos, but helping people like me who are interested in using your videos as a jumping point to do further research into the topics that you have discussed. It doesn’t just have to be books, either - studies/meta-analyses/statistical reviews, articles, reports, or anything else that you use would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for creating such consistently informative, objective, and bingeworthy videos!

[@krisstopher8259]

you make the most intense documentaries on youtube. every second is like some crazy spy thriller moment or the war scenes in lotr. lol. i used to watch lots of natgeo and discovery for like 2 decades and sure they're good but there's no energy like in these documentaries. they're too old school. it feels like i was in the gym for an hour watching your stuff and that's great. it's like a matrix information AUX input on acid. lmao

[@ToBeIsWasWere]

bruh you must be high as a kite, I'll have whatever he's having. edit: missed the last last words, is that a metaphor or are you on acid? Because this sounds exactly like what people on acid say.

[@tomdillan]

Sounds like the Saudis should use the brine water leftover from desalination into every way possible. The salt, calcium, magnesium, lithium and more could create additional industries once the oil is gone.

[@muhammadadeel8639]

All these industries would need more water supply

[@inferno0020]

in the US we tried to relate every single political issue in the Middle East with religion (or political ideology) and we usually neglect (or deny ) the importance of geography in shaping the society the collective decisions it made.

[@عبدالله-ن6ه2ص]

Most of the conflicts in the world are economic and will use religion, human rights issues, or political ideology to justify the invasion and war of other countries.

[@altrag]

Much of the religious clustering is informed by the same geographical considerations. Using religion is a proxy sure, and there's definitely some discussion to be had about why Americans focus so heavily on religious aspects rather than anything else, but as a proxy its not actually as bad as it sounds on the surface. It can be misleading sometimes as all proxies are, but generally speaking as long as you understand that Islam has sects and factions same as Christianity, you can get pretty far using "religious clustering" and "geographical clustering" somewhat interchangeably.

[@valeriisoldatov8854]

The quality of content is jaw dropping Keep it up gyus

[@ErdoganWaweru]

this video really contextualizes the harshness of the peninsula's climate. As an East African, I now understand why the sultan of Oman moved his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar. favorable climate

[@fadyal-qaisy5213]

Muscat has a beautiful moderate climate, Oman is partly mountainous and has many regions of green and moderate mild climate

[@Faris_9111]

The capital was not moved to Zanzibar, but rather a division occurred between the brothers after the death of the sultan, the father. The older brother ruled Muscat, Oman and the Asian parts, and the younger brother ruled Zanzibar and the African parts.

[@ChillkittzGT]

This is actually self explanatory. It's basically similar to Canada, with one part of their country being the only habitable area and the rest were either deserts prone to sandstorm and heat waves or mountains that are prone to potential avalanches and lands that were simply too cold or too hot its unhabitable without proper aid from cities that were simply far out.

[@rahileshanbi5551]

Yeah, could easily be abbreviated too in that point.

[@user-do5mm7lv2t]

Canada has water and cold is better than desert.

[@JPaul-gl6th]

Sure, this is fairly self-explanatory but the initial question helps lead into a larger discussion about the geography of the Arab Peninsula and how that geography create unique challenges for the Saudi state.

[@ChillkittzGT]

@@user-do5mm7lv2t true, tho im just trying to give some form of analogy as to why I think the video is kind of self explanatory.

[@ChillkittzGT]

@@JPaul-gl6th yeah, going a deep dive into the challenges of the Arabs in their pretty much desolate land seems alright anyhow.

[@muslimresponse103]

17:20 non-muslims can visit Medina city but are not allowed to enter the territory of Prophet Muhammads ﷺ mosque 🕌

[@Umayyadazi]

They can enter the prophet mosque

[@muslimresponse103]

@@Umayyadazi NO! non-muslims CANNOT enter the Prophets ﷺ Mosque. according to the sharia!

[@Umayyadazi]

@muslimresponse103 You must differentiate between Makkah and Medina. It is allowed according to bin Baz as long as it is for a good reason. How will you justify the entering of Thumamah ibn Uthal and the delegation of bani Thaqif and Christian delegation of Najran?

[@muslimresponse103]

@@Umayyadazi that was before the prohibition. to my knowledge the scholars say that non-muslims cannot enter the Prophets Masjid anymore!

[@Umayyadazi]

@@muslimresponse103 Who prohibited entering it? Back up your claim. The fact that those non-Muslims entered it when the prophet was alive should have ended the discussion.

[@Scope790]

This is one of the best channels on YT, thanks for making these

[@deankhalil8147]

I always wondered why when I went to Dubai during a layover, how it could possibly be 110 degrees with 100 percent humidity. Easily the worst heat I ever felt.

[@fahadbhutta3164]

Dude, either you are American or you went to another dimension where Dubai's temperature is above the boiling point of water

[@anonymousejones8742]

@@fahadbhutta3164he’s talking about fehrenteirt

[@anonymousejones8742]

Also if Dubai is hot for you then try seeing Jeddah It’s nearly year -round hotter than Dubai

[@butterfly9274]

@@anonymousejones8742no way!😳 I would never live there 😢

[@techoutsider5631]

110 degrees fahrenheit is roughly 43.5 degrees celsius, if that helps.

[@Dylan-yl2ok]

As a Canadian... -7 Celsius Is a very nice day in winter. Wouldn't describe it as brutally cold. Below -30 C, that's brutal.

[@waspwrap1235]

That’s fair. In mass, usually our coldest is around -15° C. There was one winter my family was on vacation, it got as cold is -24° C

[@Drealmers]

Imagine from 50 Celsius in morning and change -7 at night.

[@jqbyteam]

@@Drealmers that happened to me 2 months ago it felt like hell lol

[@kwayke9]

-7 is absolutely not ok where I live (or anywhere in western Europe lol)

[@mohammedalmohsen712]

It’s 41 degree Celsius here in Jeddah can’t even touch the cars wheel 😂

[@brexistentialism7628]

Absolute world class video!! I live in Dubai and you've explained so many specific characteristics of this region correctly and in detail. Even learned about the subtropical rift. The Gulf states will innovate on sustainability. They will find solutions.

[@rebekahTee-er3rz]

Yes it's good. I couldnt understand how in the gulf area it seems to be only place I ever been that does not cool off after the sun goes down..in fact in the summer, the nights can get even hotter..now I know it's because the nights' humidity have their own weather systems going on.

[@أبنالأمازيغالمغربى]

The Saudis were bandits and robbed pilgrims before the oil boom They want a rabble of sheep and eat desert reptiles. Ignorance is the face of the black Saudis

[@bahwash2307]

From experience, Saudi Arabia is one of the best places you could visit in terms of hospitality, Archaeological sites and community.

[@abokadohoi4]

Next video: why everyone lives on land 🤯🤯🤯

[@500ccRabbit]

The j3w fears the ocean liver

[@sokjeong-ho7033]

what about people who live in house boats?

[@jodysnotbubbles]

That was the smoothest transition to an ad I have ever seen on KZbin

[@rderouck]

If there's a country, RealLifeLore can draw a straight line through it and motivate it for 40 minutes

[@henlohenlo689]

fax

[@أبنالأمازيغالمغربى]

The Saudis were bandits and robbed pilgrims before the oil 😭boom They want a rabble of sheep and eat desert reptiles. Ignorance is the face of the black Saudis

[@edwardmarquis4411]

I learned more about Saudi Arabia on this one video, than I have learned in my 67 years on the planet from any other source. Thanks!

[@syedasifhussain2074]

Hi I live in the Eastern region of Saudi Arabia and I literally have have to take shower 2 times and the water has to be from bucket which is filled atleast 4 or 5 hours before and just I seriously need AC to sleep or else it's impossible to sleep 😂

[@Devils-Angel]

It's not correct. I'm from Saudi Arabia and the only area That uninhabited is the Al-Rub Al-Khali Desert ( Empty Quarter Desert ). Note: Please cite your sources for this information, or at least be honest. Thank you.

[@BuffaloBrandon]

This guy has made like 20 different videos just explaining that most people don’t live in deserts and they are each like 40 minutes long.

[@mohamedm.elnour9300]

That coffee sponsor seqway was soo smooth 😂 Great video .. learned alot

[@u.2b215]

Non-Muslims are not forbidden from entering Medinah.

[@s_dharni2483]

My question also

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

He's thinking of Dajjal that can't enter both

[@elijoki99]

This channel's videos are excellent educational material. If I were a teacher of, maybe students that are 13 and up, I would show these videos in my class, or at very least, recommend that they watch it. Maybe I could give them bonus points if they do some sort of study about these. Granted, I wouldn't let it go to the point where they get too much bonus credit. A shame that they can't put all of their videos on youtube.

[@AL-lh2ht]

It should always be noted. Just like all geopolitics KZbinrs. They make mistakes all the time and all have biases. While this guy is one of the better ones he is still a firm believer in realpolitik, or the belief countries act exclusively for the logical gain of power in a great game. He would tell you straight to your face South America and africa are Chinese Allie’s. Yea, like Africans are going to hop in a boat to fight in Taiwan.

[@churblefurbles]

Its convenient, which is why its dubious, interest groups begin to funnel info/media packages to such outlets for redistribution.

[@aaanawaleh]

This channel has some good videos just like many other edutubers but there's also a fair amount of inaccuracies if you look for them. Take the surface level facts but take everything with a grain of salt, these edutubers aren't locals or academics.

[@petermgruhn]

You would teach your students that people are goats?

[@elijoki99]

@@petermgruhn I never said I was smart.

[@mohammadhazza3378]

As a Saudi I’m actually impressed by how accurate the video is “some details are debatable tho”, but overall thank you for being a reliable source of information in a world that is full of BS.

[@ssgamer5693]

More videos on saudi arabia pls,this is the best stress buster for me,i get completely detached from the outside world and my tensions while watching something about saudi arabia😄

[@Fai9albinKhalid3]

as an Arabian from Jeddah, I can confirm that we are built different

[@poltronafrau]

Yeah we knew that. You like to stone people.

[@ASLUHLUHC3]

Start investing abroad

[@Alqoaity]

really from Jeddah? than why you put this flag? 🇵🇸

[@puttiplush]

Not an engineer, so I'm hoping there is one who reads this comment: if the desert air's humidity is so high, why desalinate sea water? Is it not possible to turn humidity into potable water, perhaps by seeding like in clouds? I know that the Incas in the past and current residents of the Andes use pretty low-tech atmospheric water generators, but the mountains above the water line do have pretty significant fog.

[@TheWondermittens]

Engineer here, and de-humidifying as a means of water collection is ridiculously inefficient. The Inca were able to collect water from the cool, low pressure mountain air because it was already in the process of condensing (fog), and just needed a nudge to bring it to liquid form (temp drop). Humid, seal level desert air requires much much more energy to bring the water temperature low enough to condense, and when you do it storage is more difficult because the heat causes re-evaporation. The thermodynamics make it impossible.

[@astrid703]

@@TheWondermittens Fascinating. I was wondering the same thing as puttiplush. Also, this reminded me of Dune by Frank Herbert. Sci-fi, I know, but in his novels (thousands of years in the future), the Fremen extract water from the air using some sort of technology. But you point out an additional problem--the storage of the water because of evaporation. Does this also affect their farming? RealLifeLore points out that farming is massively inefficient, and I wonder if that is because they can't use open irrigation and the spraying of water just results in much of the water never reaching the crops.

[@puttiplush]

@@TheWondermittens Thank you so very much! That indeed makes sense, and I now understand how the two situations are thermodynamically quite different. Thank you again for taking the time to answer my question. Have a great weekend!

[@uhrologe2596]

The tourism industry would had been interesting to analyze. Milions of pilgrims di visit SA every year. SA is located at the red sea. A huge coastline covered with untouched coral reeves. Those who visited Egypt for snorkeling or diving know what a potential this is. It would had been ibteresting to know what contribution this industry has for SA, as three of the major cities are living from it more or less. Mekka, Medina and Jiddah (as a gateway).

[@temperanceblalock7514]

They don't want beach resorts so close to Medina and Mecca. All those Westerners in their bikinis? No way!

[@Akei51]

@@temperanceblalock7514 there are actually so many beach resorts in jeddah, and they’ve always been so many since the 90’s so stop lying and do some research

[@aeri1148]

@@temperanceblalock7514buddy even Saudi women wear bikinis in some beaches idk where you’re getting this thinking from

[@thatonepianoguy_]

These videos were my afterschool snack 10 years ago. Glad to see you still around and prospering!

[@Hallows4]

The southwest corner of the peninsula is a leading contender for the “Land of Punt”, and the origin point for boswelia sacra, a.k.a. frankincense. Even the Queen of Sheba is believed to have ruled there. Geography and climate really allows it to make the most of a difficult situation.

[@yaroubthayer-752]

It’s called Saba’ and not this sheba. Saba’ and Himyar are two old Arabian kingdoms in the south along with the Nabataeans in the Levant up north.

[@expert3923]

الحمدلله على نعمة نعمة الإسلام 🇸🇦

[@ArcticLemon]

I love the way this video gives me TONS of information about why they live in the areas, with a general outlook and to top it off, Facts about coffee I had no idea about. Thank you for making education fun and interesting.

[@Gx.88]

The information that only Saudi Arabia and some Arabs know is that there is a city of gold under the Empty Quarter called the City of Iram of the Pillars. God punished them because they did not listen to the words of the Prophet Saleh when he warned them and follow him. The tallest man among them was five hundred cubits tall and the shortest man among them was three hundred cubits tall. The Empty Quarter was forests and rivers. NASA confirmed the truth of this statement, saying that there are two rivers under the Empty Quarter and they are still flowing to this moment. The Prophet Muhammad said that the Arabian Peninsula will return at the end of time to meadows and rivers, and this is one of the minor signs of the Hour, and this indicates that it existed before.

[@rakann1289]

It's not even close to completely empty, there is major cirties outside the lines you drown. Do a better research

[@patrickkelly5492]

"Let me say the same thing over and over again to make it a 40 minute video so I can get more ad revenue." - Real Life Lore

[@cc1380]

Correct information ،most of the residents of modern cities today, such as Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dammam. Their origins go back to the south, as it is the only geographical spot suitable for living. The land there is suitable for agriculture, and it is cool and has an average amount of rain in the summer

[@gilgabro420]

Thing is oceans don't really separate people they connect them. Inhospitable land regions are far better at separating people then oceans especially if the region isn't too far away. The Atlantic ocean is a special case because we didn't have the technology but oceans connect people more than they separate.

[@kairos_fluent]

What about Australia, Aboriginals isolated for 65,000 years, and New Zealand, only inhabited until 14th century ?

[@tke3131]

@@kairos_fluent guy is a peanut brain, thinking ships have been around forever

[@gilgabro420]

@@kairos_fluent oceans can obviusly separate people but getting across a desert tundra or mountains is more difficult on a squer Kilometer Basis than doing the same over ocians. That's at least the case if you don't get deep ocean travel involved. And all of that is especially true nowadays. Natural land features like deserts mountains and rainforest separate people while we Conquered the Sea.

[@gustavju4686]

@@gilgabro420 It's why a lot of trade was historically done via waterways (be they rivers, seas, or oceans).

[@boosterh1113]

Before the 1600-1700s oceanic travel was rare and difficult. Coastal trade was generally extensive, but sailing out of sight of land was very dangerous. There is a reason Madagascar wasn't settled until the time of the Roman Empire, despite the fact that the East African coastline has had humans for hundreds of thousands of years. New Zealand wasn't settled until around 1000 AD.

[@blackheart909]

I spent 20 years in Saudi, In Al Ahsa Hufuf(Hafoof in this video) and now I live in Qatar. This video is very informative and accurate. My parents worked for the government as migrants for the Ministry of health as doctors. We were well off but what bothers me is that after spending so much time in the country it makes no difference at the end of the day in terms of being a permanent resident or citizen. That’s something unfortunate, otherwise the country is hospitable and organized. I wish it was possible to take walks outside.

[@dizzybear9214]

Why is it difficult to walk outside? Its safe country tf ur talking abt

[@blackheart909]

It's just really hot! Otherwise its safe, the law protects people well.@@dizzybear9214

[@sigma8519]

@@dizzybear9214 It is very safe, but very hot. You walk outside and literally shower with your sweat.

[@pqpqupid]

⁠@@dizzybear9214actually it's so safe even in midnight

[@Voltage.Bone.R]

@@dizzybear9214nothing wrong with taking walks here in Jeddah. But dear god is the sun torturing

[@SneakyLlamaMC]

Bro Makes The Best Content On KZbin, Love From Turkey ❤❤❤

[@eazydazit]

Reallifelore is the best geography/history classes you won't find anywhere else. I love it

[@Slightnoob]

What I'm hearing from this is that Canada is a lot emptier than Saudi Arabia, being twice the size with the same population.

[@majidabdullah5562]

Thats true lol

[@GrahamCStrouse]

One big difference: Canada has LOADS of fresh water.

[@RifaahReal]

15:40 that's incorrect, Alahsa and Qatifi oasis are close to 3000 years old!

[@devnom9143]

One wonders if recycling water like is done on the International Space Station mighthave been cheaper & easier to supply the water for their cities, though growth & leaks would obviously still require bringing in more fresh water or increasing the efficiency of water usage (reducing the a,ount of water used per person)

[@ALKEBULANSTUDIOS28]

Great information and research 🔬 keep up the good work

[@JLAvey]

I remember watching something that showed satellite images of the Empty Quarters showed ruins buried in the sand. So sometime in the history of human civilization the places wasn't as desolate as now. Kind of like how Greenland was a little warmer a thousand years ago. There was also the Nile Canal. Ancient Egypt had a canal that linked the Nile to the Gulf of Suez by way of a couple of lakes. If filled up with sand a couple of times and was dug back out. Lakes dried up or something to do with shifting climate put an end to it.

[@temperanceblalock7514]

One of the largest dams ever build in ancient history was built in Yemen at Marib. It's even mentioned in the Bible.

[@KGF-zf2qj]

It's called Qusairat Aad recently discovered date back to 2000 BC

[@vitalychernobyl6137]

“Why 80% of Saudis live in these lines” to quote Sam Kinison, it’s because “THATS WHERE THE FOOD IS! This place is mostly sand, I need to move to where the food is!”

[@Umayyadazi]

Food is available across all of Saudi Arabia, it's not limited to those two imaginary lines based on nothing.

[@vitalychernobyl6137]

@@Umayyadazi take it up with Sam Kinison

[@Umayyadazi]

@vitalychernobyl6137 Sam Kinison is a dead man with a superficial joke that applies only on war-torn or corrupt countries. Take Central African Republic for example, It's fertile yet hungry. It ranks second only to Yemen in the world most hungerist countries in 2022 list according to statista! Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, has achieved remarkable progress in the agricultural sector. The state-run Sustainable Agricultural Rural Development Program, also known as Reef, has increased the self-sufficiency rate in the value-added agriculture sector to 63%. This program aims to ensure food security in the Kingdom. The World Bank reports that agricultural land covers 80.75% of the land area in Saudi Arabia in 2020, which shows him and whoever has his superficial thinking wrong.

[@asimjabbar8445]

Now imagine! During the 7th century, the tribal Muslims of now Saudi Arabia decimated the Persians and Roman Empires simultaneously throughout the middle east within a period of a couple of decades. Yeah there was no railways network back then to support their expansion either. It's like today's Eskimos capturing Europe while defeating the US and Russia on either borders and maintaining control over it for centuries to come. 😳

[@theguy9208]

Its not very impressive when you consider that the peninsula wasn't conquered because it wasn't worthwhile at all. Until oil was discovered there was literally no reason for anyone to go there except to say that you did. Like if some idiots want to rule an 80% unlivable desert with no resources the surrounding empires were more than happy to leave them alone.

[@الثعلبالداهيه]

@@theguy9208 But they did not leave the empires alone. They went out to them, crushed them, and built their empire on their ruins😂, which remains to this day (Arabs - Islam)

[@1987alsadi]

Arabian Gulf*

[@ELY3358]

Because of the genius on RealLife Lore’s explanation…. I am now stuck thinking what is the country with the opposite of this- geography that has caused the best weather, but might not have as much population???? Is there even such a thing 😅

[@CharlesWarrington]

Canada kinda fits the bill, it has lots of temperate areas but few people

[@judithweiss6727]

@@CharlesWarrington it has few temperate areas, and almost the whole population lives in them. He made a video about Canada too.

[@motionpictures6629]

The Land around Lake Victoria! Lake Victoria is fed by 8 rivers that are as big as the Rhine river in Western Europe and have a combined population of around 20 million people. The Rhine River alone has a population of around 80 million people. David Livingston wanted to build a new civilization around Lake Victoria, but he forgot about Malaria in the swamps around the lake. Get rid of Mosquitos and you would have the best land for human civilization anywhere around the world

[@motionpictures6629]

2 Option: Bozeman, Montana and the pacific north-west, where Snake- and Mississippi River almost meet. Lots of Water, lots of Farmland, few people.

[@JamesMassie-vm2cu]

Borneo island in Indonesia

[@timsinkovitz]

Ummmmmm call me crazy here but solar energy and Saudi Arabia just sounds like a match made in heaven. They could harvest enough to make electricity even cheaper.

[@charlesdiggs5297]

This answered a couple of questions for me, thank you.

[@paul_321]

There aren’t many, if any, records of Mecca or Medinah being a major trade spot until well after 900ad. I wouldn’t say “most of human history”. Humans went completely around it.

[@Decimate_The_Flesh]

Because it's a dessert. Thank you for watching and see you next video!