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History of the Middle East (the two-minute version)

Via Maps of War, a very cool animated map of the major military conquests that defined the history of the Middle East. (Press ‘Play’ on the map below to see the animation.)

Hat tip to Google Blogoscoped.

This entry was posted by Andy on Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 4:01 PM and filed under Ancient Near East, Imperialism, Maps, Mesopotamia, Military, Modern Middle East.
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Comments (1) to “History of the Middle East (the two-minute version)”

  1. alan wrote:

    I was struck, not only by how many times the Middle East has changed hands, but how many of those empires I know next to nothing about. Roman? Ottoman? Mongols? Sure, but I know essentially nothing about Caliphate and Saladin despite the fact that they pwn’d large swaths of the region.

    Posted on 06-Nov-06 at 3:43 pm | Permalink

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