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this video was made possible by skillshare learn new skills for free for a month by being one of the first 1000 to head to the link in the description the story of saudi arabia's oil problem starts with success almost a century ago after three decades of bloody complex conquest over belligerence as small as tribes and as large as the ottoman empire abdulaziz bin abdullah rahman al-saad finally held nearly all of the arabian peninsulas territory his military and political triumph was rewarded with his ability on september 23 1932 to unify his dominions into a single modern arab state the kingdom of saudi arabia that was hardly the end of his success though with new-found tenuous stability across the peninsula abdulaziz started work to verify a long-held hunch he believed without any real evidence that there must be oil in arabia this was typically brushed aside by oil companies as the starry-eyed fantasies of a desperate ruler of an inhospitable land but he was of course correct in 1932