Nabataeans
The Nabataeans (Arabic: الأنباط, Al-Anbāt)
were the ancient Semitic people, Arabs of
southern Jordan, Canaan, and the northern
part of Arabia, whose oasis settlements in
the time of Josephus (AD 37 – c. 100), gave
the name of Nabatene
to the borderland between
Syria
and Arabia, from the
Euphrates River to the Red Sea.
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The Nabataeans had a loosely-controlled
trading network, which centered on strings
of oases that they controlled.
They tried and developed many types of
agriculture that was intensively practiced
in limited areas, and on the routes that
linked them.
They had no securely defined boundaries in
the surrounding desert.
The Nabataeans diverted all trade routes
through their new capital so that
Petra
briefly became the
center of one of the most important
civilizations in the ancient world.
This is now voted by travelers as the New
7th Wonder of the World.
Trajan conquered the Nabataean Cities, and
then annexing them to the Roman Empire.
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With the new empire under the Romans their
individual culture, easily identified by
their characteristic finely-potted painted
ceramics, became dispersed in the general
Hellenistic-Roman culture and was eventually
lost.
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