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Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts

Iran, US, and the Forgotten World War II Lesson

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The Iran Crisis of 2026 just exposed the United States has forgotten the lessons of World War II.  A War, not just fought in the seas, landi...

Quick Story of Dubai's Rise as a Global Business Hub

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February 2026 ended with a bang, literaly with the US and Israel striking Iran, besides the Ayatollah, it claimed another far more consequen...

Cambyses II and His Controversial Conquest of Egypt

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Cambyses II earned his place in the hallmark of Persian history with his push eastwards into North Africa. Under his rule from 530 and 522 B...

Founders: Cyrus the Great of the Persian Empire

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"Of all the powers in Asia, the kingdom of Cyrus showed itself to be the greatest and most glorious.." - Xenophon in Cyropaedia

First King of the World: Who was Naram-Sin?

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“Naram-Sin, son of Manistusu, ruled for 56 years” - an entry carved into the Sumerian King List. Naram-Sin (r. 2,255 - 2,218 BCE) ruled ove...

Sons of Sargon the Great of Akkad

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Establishing an empire is one thing, maintaining it is another. This beset the successors of Sargon the Great after their patriarch passed a...

World's Earliest Success Story - Who was Sargon the Great?

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Sargon the Great of Akkad founded the Akkadian Empire (r. 2,334 - 2,279 BCE) defying boundaries in military tactics and administration to cr...

Cruelty: The Instrument of Assyrian Control

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Ashurnasipal in the throne The New Assyrian Empire was the most powerful kingdom that dominated the Middle East during the early 1st ...
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Ashurbanipal's Royal Library of Nineveh

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The Neo Assyrian Empire was the prominent power in Mesopotamia during the early part of the 1st millennium BCE. From a fallen people, the...
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Assyrian Empire: Neo-Assyria

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The Assyrian Empire had experienced three period of greatness. They took control much of Mesopotamia and parts of Egypt as well as Asia ...
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Assyrian Empire: The Old and Middle Empire

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Assyrian during 1400 BCE The region of Mesopotamia catered numerous civilization. Among this civilization was the Assyrian. They play...

Akkad: The First Empire

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Possible head of Sargon the Great In rivers, human civilization dawned. In China, the major rivers of Huang Ho and Yangtze gave birth ...

Sumerian Women and Beer

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About 5000 BCE, civilization began to spring up in the Fertile Crescent. The two rivers of Euphrates and Tigris gave birth to a civiliz...

The Famous Phoenician Dye

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Tyre under Siege In the region of Levant, which now composed of Lebanon and Syria, was once home of the wealthy mercantile and maritim...

The Umayyads: Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan

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From the chaos brought by the death of Shias and Sunnis, a new caliphate rose. From the brutal murder of Caliph Uthman and the disintegrat...

The Umayyads: Muawiya

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Umayyad Caliphate in 750 Upon the death of the third Rashidun Caliph, Uthman, tensions between those who supported election for the ne...

The Rashidun: Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Ali ibn Abi Talib In 656, the reign of the third caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate, Uthman ended bloody. The nepotism and rise of corru...

The Rashidun: Uthman ibn Affan

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Uthman ibn Affan The reign of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab ended in bloodshed. His reign brought great expansion and glory to Islam and ...

The Rashidun: Umar ibn al-Khattab

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Medina - Capital of Rashidun Caliphate Arabia, 632 - The Prophet Mohammad just passed away, leaving not instruction who would succeed...

The Rashidun Caliphate: Abu Bakar

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Abu Bakar 632, Medina – an election was being held. The Prophet Mohammad had passed away. Four Companions of the Prophet were nominate...