STRABO

In the Middle East conflict over Palestine, both Jews and Arabs claim that they were among the early citizens of an organized society. But some Arabs see the Jews as outsiders who were given Palestinian land to compensate for the Holocaust. This quotation is cited to illustrate that both Jews and Arabs were established in Palestine from earliest times and were recognized as such by historians writing around the time of Christ.

Although most people of old many of the ancient world understood the spherical earth over a thousand years before Galileo was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for stating that fact. See {590334} for another ancient view. Note that Strabo talks of seamen who tried to circumnavigate the earth so it was a generally held view of the sophisticated at the time of Christ.

In the Middle East conflict over Palestine, both Jews and Arabs claim that they were among the early citizens of an organized society. But some Arabs see the Jews as outsiders who were given Palestinian land to compensate for the Holocaust. This quotation is cited to illustrate that both Jews and Arabs were established in Palestine from earliest times and were recognized as such by historians writing around the time of Christ.

Although most people of old many of the ancient world understood the spherical earth over a thousand years before Galileo was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for stating that fact. See {590334} for another ancient view. Note that Strabo talks of seamen who tried to circumnavigate the earth so it was a generally held view of the sophisticated at the time of Christ.