The systems and beliefs of the Nabataeans."

Abstract

Despite the lack of information available about the Nabataeans, we can say that they were nomads, who came from the Arabian Peninsula, and settled in present-day Jordan between the sixth and fourth centuries BC, and around the year 312 BC. M. They began to occupy the country of the Edomites, located between Wadi Hasa (Zard) and the Gulf of Aqaba (Eila); They resisted Antigonus, one of Alexander's successors. The Nabataeans’ control over the trade routes led to the growth of their wealth. During the Hellenistic era, Petra was the Nabataeans’ storehouse and their impregnable refuge, and it became the capital of a kingdom that extended - in the first century BC. - from Sinai to Hijaz (Mada’in Saleh / Al-Hijra) and to southern Syria. The Nabateans became for a short period the masters of Damascus, and their kingdom included agricultural areas and pastures. Their kingdom did not have clear borders, but it included most of the territory of present-day Jordan, with the exception of the northwest