The History of Middle East Empires

[tafnut]

Cool little video

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

[lonewolf]

Excellent and illuminating illlustration of why things are not and have never been exactly static in that part of the world

[gh]

Wait a minute! Where's the Hyborian Age and Conan the Conqueror and his ravaging hordes?!

[tafnut]

Wait a minute! Where's the Hyborian Age and Conan the Conqueror and his ravaging hordes?!

In the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie

[guru]

Wait a minute! Where's the Hyborian Age and Conan the Conqueror and his ravaging hordes?!

Wrong map :wink:

[eldrick]

interesting vid

reminds me of being taught about hittites/assyrians/mesopotamians/chaldeans etc at school

in retrospect, it was quite ridiculous - the ole curriculum required 12y oles to spend a term ( 1/3rd year ) learning from mespotomians to norman conquests, with something like 3 or 4 weeks on this ancient middle east stuff

no one at the time in class understood it, as it was just a mess of countless tribes moving around a relatively small area of land

it's more interesting/understandable to read when you grow up

[lonewolf]

As is true of most history. "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it."