governed access to africa and egypt, looking at all the traffic, an interesting continuity
a few battles fought for control, obviously a byword for military fraction
the book of revelations is quite understandable once you know that the number of the beast was a cryptic shorthand for the roman emperor at the time revelations was written who was persecuting christians
the book was written by some blurred autistic schizophrenic followed through the ages by other autistic schizophrenics like newton who wasted a large portion of his life on it
but armageddon is just a hill with some ruins on, peaceable really