A 90 second, 5,000 year imperial history of the Middle East

5,000 years in 90 seconds

http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html

Really cool.

 

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Well , it looks like it is the survival of the most aggressive down there -
no surprise, that there is always trouble in the middle east ....

 

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Middle East...all but desert filled with explosive particles...

 

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Ooh, that's pretty snazzy.

 

It's like "who's dick is bigger" contest, and the Mongols win hands down.

 

Do you seriously memorize everything with a photographic memory or are you, and have been, a 14 year old all along fooling us with the power of google?

I must know.

 

This is a very very very complex region to analyze. Not just because the Jews were given Isreal after WWII, and not just due to the differences in Christians and Muslims, but most especially due to the differences between the Muslim Sunnies and Shiites in the Middle east and then you get into the differences between the Hindus in India and Buddhists as you go farther east.

You culd write an encyclopedia on each of these religions and their histories in pick-and-choose geographic areas and still never cover it all. This is an extremely complex subject and is why we are having a great deal of political problems in this area today, and always have. Iraq, of course, is the latest on everyones mind, but the struggles in this and other Middle East regions go back centuries before this.

 

thanks for the 5:30am distraction from differential equations.

 

How can you do differential equations with half your mind - one eye - on the computer screen? Teach me that one so I can also improve my concentration and focus!

 

Okay, so now that I've seen that .....how can the Palestinians say that they own all of the land of Israel? I didn't see "The Palestinian Empire" in that whole history, did you? But I did see that that area was owned by about a gazillion different empires. Hmmm?

Baron Max

 

The conflicts in the Middle East are older than those of Sunni and Shiite. Much, much older.

 

Because through the last few empires, they were the ones living there.

Bit like the Maoris were the only ones living in New Zealand awhile back.

 

easy, you just realize that you F'ed up the problem about 20 steps back, tear out your paper, and take a 5 minute break at sciforums. repeat about 5 times.

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This is wrong, the Islamic Ottoman Empire was much larger, it stretched to India.

 

Middle East, as the "middle" in its name suggests, lies in the middle of the world with its continents and peoples...

That's the reason why this area has been so troubled; because it's the center of the world...

And those who pay the price of all those troubles are those who were born there...

by the way ... history is just a bullshit ... billions of people have died for no purpose , all the events are just results of stupidity and randomness and nonsense ... people are worth nothing and they kill and die for no reason ... it's a total miss ...

Just like the way the universe started with a blast ... everything in it is random and makes no sense ... why would people be different?

They are elements of this randomness and they are not any more special than dust particles or bugs...

It might be that when a smart enough species come out that they will get themselves out of this miss ... but they're definitely not us...

 

I know that feeling.

 

At the hight of the Ottoman Empire It stretched from southeastern Europe (Bavarian town of Regensburg) to what is now Bangladesh. And all of the territory which was shown to be conquer by the Moguls (Mongolians) near the top.

The didn't call him Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent! nothing.

 

This map shows you how far into Europe the Ottomans went under the leader ship of the Magnifcent!

http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=e...4&spn=57.763269,220.78125&t=h&om=1&iwloc=addr