History Of The Middle East In 90 Seconds

[sandyRoe]

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1VRyQX

[Zacs-Master]

Link just takes me to an App advert.

[sandyRoe]

I can't understand that. I see successive empires, starting with the Egyptians.

[Zacs-Master]

Are you logged in as a member?

[sandyRoe]

I must be, yes. The link came in an e-mail.

[sandyRoe]

Is this it?

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

[Zacs-Master]

No sandy. It gets me a bit further but no content. I'm looking via an ipad so it might need 'flash player'.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes Sandy I need flash but I found this on You tube (bit strange how it says 90 seconds and the video is 2:19, but hey)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iVXPqnoC_A&sns=em

[sandyRoe]

I'm ashamed to say I'd never heard of the Sassanid Empire. We live and learn

[emmie]

sure that isn't sassanach empire, they get everywhere.

[Quoi]

that is an incredible website (stumble) that the link came from - i could be there for hours!

[sandyRoe]

Emmie, who hasn't heard of the Sassanach empire, of which it was once said that the sun never set on it ?

[jno]

I can see the original link okay. I think it's a bit abrupt - empires just suddenly vanish. But the Byzantines, for instance, slowly dwindled rather than suddenly being wiped off the map.

Also, as a military map, it didn't really take account of trading empires like Venice's, or indeed the British Empire, which invented Iraq.

[atalanta]

The Middle East is a mess, and always has been. And everyone who tries to sort it out only makes it worse.
And don't forget the Kurds.

[Mosaic]

I think it's a great video but I'm sad that the first two thousand years have been ignored - the Sumerian and Akkadian kingdoms and first Babylonian Empire.