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The Middle East. History/Story. 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
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The Middle East History/Story
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
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
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