The Middle East Without Oil?

Oil is so much a part of everything, ah, you know, oil and money. Might as well just make them simyouknow, interchangeable. In the early twentieth century, irons not even on the map. Nobody needs oil in the middle east yet, cause nobody's got a shortage anywhere. And by the time 53 rolls around, the reason anybody cares to the degree that they do, is cause of the oil company that briton ran with. But let's talk about that first.