The Middle East

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The Middle East

• History/Story

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• The Age of Cultures and Nations
• Sumerians
• Acadians
• Babylonians
• Assyrians
• 4th millennium BC Egyptians (the Pharaohs),
• The cradle of Civilization
• The Fertile Crescent
• The Levant
• Phoenicians
• 
  Israelites

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• The Age of Empires
• The Persian Empire (6th Century BC)
• (Achaemenids)
• The Macedonian Empire (4th Century BC)
• (Alexander the Great)
• The Parthian Empire (3rd Century BC)
• (Arsaces I)
• The Roman Empire (1st Century
  BC)
• (Augustus)
• The Byzantine Empire (4th
  Century AD)
• (324 AD-Constantine, Eastern Roman
  Empire)

and successor kingdoms such as Ptolemaic
Egypt and the Seleucid state in Syria. The
Persian Empire was later revived by the Parthians
in the 2nd century BC and continued by the
Sassanids from the 2nd century AD. This empire
would dominate part of what is Middle East region
until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th
century
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• The Age of Empires II
• The Arab Empire (7th Century)
• The Caliphates (Rashidun, Umayyad)
• The Seljuk Empire (11th Century)
• Turgul I
• The Mamluk Empire (13th Century)
• Ahmad Ibn Tulun
• The Ottoman Empire (15th
  Century)
• Selim I (the
  Excellent)
• The First World
  War
• 1917 Great Britain defeats the Turks
• 1922 British Mandate over Palestine begins