I think it was the Age of Discovery. After the Crusades and the fall of Feudalism,
the growth of towns and commerce attracted interest in other lands that began
during the Crusades when they were exposed the silks and spices being traded
there. This prompted European powers to
embark on journeys to establish trade routes as well as find new lands to
colonize.
The Aramaeans were a Northwest Semitic people who did not have any unified government. They only had small indpendent kingdoms in what is now called Syria. These people lived during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. :)
These Japanese women were called postcard brides.
That would be the year 74a.d.
The two states were the greatest powers of West Asia, and the rivalry was further fueled by dogmatic differences: the Ottomans were Sunnis, while the Safavids were staunchly Shia Muslims of the Qizilbash sect, and seen as heretics by the Ottomans.
