[meta] An Introduction (of sorts)

If you missed the sidebar, allow me to give you a short introduction to this subreddit:

Welcome to r/MiddleEastHistory, a subreddit for anything involving the vast expanse (both on a map and on a timeline) that is the history of the Middle East. Pictures, sculptures, maps, manuscripts, primary sources, book and article recommendations or discussions, paintings, archaeological findings, and/or simple text posts detailing a particular event/person/place are all welcomed and encouraged here.

Rules

I would also like to take this opportunity to point you towards the rules section of the r/MiddleEastHistory wiki and to the rules themselves:

1. Religious intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, and general bigoted behavior will not be tolerated (basically, follow reddiquette)

2. All historical questions are directed to r/AskHistorians, but follow ups to comments/posts are fine (and encouraged, if a user doesn't understand something or would like further clarification).

3. Upvote insightful, interesting, and engaging comments/posts.

4. Please try to source your material. It is not required, but if someone asks for a source, you should be able to cite your statements.

5. Memes, modern politics, non-historical gifs, etc-- keep them in their respective subreddits.

Flairs

Feel free to edit your flair to any area of (relating to the Middle East) history that you find interesting and/or know a bit about. As someone noted in the thread (from r/AskHistorians) that spawned this subreddit, there is a significant amount of crossover (e.g. the Crusades, Rome, Alexander the Great, the Mongols, European colonization) from elsewhere, and that's super okay (see: my flair)!

To end this long-winded meta thread, I just want to push everyone to contribute and help this sub grow! I've done some simple CSS and have been posting here and there, but I just would like to remind everyone to contribute!