Title: The ENTIRE History of Yemen in 13 Minutes

They stopped a tenth of the world's trade with small boats. 2,700 years earlier, their ancestors built a dam nearly twice as long as the Hoover Dam — no concrete, no steel, just stone, earth, and genius — and it watered the desert for a thousand years. This is the entire history of Yemen: the Queen of Sheba, the Jewish kings of Himyar, Abraha's war elephants, the Rasulid golden age, the Ottomans, the coffee that conquered the world, two Yemens — and the Red Sea crisis still unfolding today. CHAPTERS: 0:00 — The Strait That Stopped the World 0:47 — Arabia Felix: The Land Nobody Could Starve 1:24 — The Queen of Sheba: Legend or History? 2:13 — The Dam That Made the Desert Bloom 3:06 — Himyar: The Jewish Kings of Arabia 3:48 — Abraha and the Year of the Elephant 4:42 — The Persians and the Coming of Islam 5:12 — Imams in the Mountains, Sultans on the Coast 5:59 — The Rasulids: Yemen's Golden Age 6:41 — The First Ottoman Invasion 7:35 — Coffee: Yemen's Black Gold 8:13 — Britain Takes Aden, The Ottomans Return 9:02 — Two Yemens: Revolution and the Marxist South 9:59 — Unification, Then Civil War 10:29 — The Arab Spring and the Houthi Takeover 11:13 — The Intervention and the Red Sea Crisis Yemen — Arabia Felix, "Happy Arabia" — sat at the crossroads of the incense trade for three thousand years. Romans, Persians, Ottomans, and Britons all tried to hold it; its mountains and deserts outlasted them all. #Yemen #History #RedSea