The Middle East originally was populated by Adamic Civilizations. The Assyrians, Persians, Medes and many others. Originally these civilizations were white but gradually went off into paganism degraded. In the 5th to 6th centuries AD, the Arab world overran these former Adamic civilizations and the demographics were changed forever. Additionally the Arabs pushed into Northern Africa, Spain even reaching southern France. Much later the Turks pushed into Anatolia and East Europe once again changing the demographics of those peoples forever. The former Adamic civilizations are gone forever.