Quote Originally Posted by PROMETHEUS
they didn't become the same , just look to the Isfahan architecture and the Alahambra and you can see the differences for example ....
Well if you are referring to Andalusian arab/berber culture, yes thats different from eastern culture. That culture is a development of early Ummayad architecture in Greater Syria, after Al-Andalus became ruled by the young Al-Dakhil, the last of the surviving ummayads, who was obsessed with his lust for his home in Damascus, and the culture there. He even brought a specimen of every plant in the levant to be planted in Iberia, and started to construct buildings exactly like those he used to see in Damascus, and so, that developed with time to building like Al-Hamra, Al-Zahra and Al-Zahira in Cordoba.

The buildings and cultural lifestyle of the people in the east changed in an other direction, they started mixing Persian and Arab culture until they became almost the same, and that is evident in Iraq and Persia, the castles, mosques, and palaces.

I would suggest two kinds of non-european cultures. One, North African/ Iberian. The other, middle eastern.