you want to refer to the people who were in what later became known as ARABIA -----as "arabs" why? did they speak arabic? did they develope an "ARAB CULTURE" in any way similar to the arab culture of the past 1500 years? Nations come and go-----apparently that old one in the land now called arabia----WENT------along with a few species of butterflies What existed later on were ----tribal nomads types-----illiterate and brutal -----generally fighting each other AND also-----people who landed there because arabia was on the EAST-WEST trading route------Persians, Jews, and later on Christians ------then the brutalized nomad type people decided to clear everyone out -----brutally----POST ISLAMIC ARABIA ---------dark ignorant and brutal--------what you see in the movie LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is what it was ever since the rapist pig enacted a comprehensive genocide of all civilized humans from arabia. Just prior to the pig----arabia was a diverse and even culturally thriving place