Middle East History - Visual Quick Study

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Ancient History (B.C.)

Fertile Crescent

The Earliest Civilizations

3500 BC

Mesopotamia: First States and Writing

Bronze Age - 1400 BC

1450 B.C.

Fall of the Assyrian Empire

Egyptian and Hittite Empires 1290 BC 

 

Babylonian Empire 560 B.C.

The Persian Empire - 490 B.C.

The Persian Empire - 500 BC

Armenia - 50 AD

For Further Details

Armenian History >

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Roman Influence (A.D.)

Roman Empire - 200 AD

Roman Empire Divided - 450 AD

Further Info >

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The Rise of Islam

Islamic Conquests 620 A.D. - 750 A.D.

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Continual Turmoil

Byzantine, Seljuk Turks, Mongol and Crusader Influence

Byzantine Empire 1000-1100

The Seljuk Turks 1100

The Crusades 1096 - 1270

 

Mongol Empire - 1294

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Ottoman Influence

1841- Ottoman Empire

1914 - Ottoman Empire

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Post World War 1 - European Partitioning

1916 - The Sykes-Picot Agreement

1922 - Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire 

1940

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Religions

1982 - Shiite Population

Distribution of Religions (Modern Day - Mediterranean and Middle East)

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Further Study - Map Collections, etc.

TimeMaps > 
Great Chronological Succession of Maps, Timeline Based

Middle East Maps > 
Extensive Map Library

Worldology.com > 

Study Collection for Ancient and Medieval Civilizations >

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and finally… Conjecture for the Future