A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Copyright ©2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 by Theo Pavlidis

Contents
500BCE - 1300CE 1300CE - present

Scope and Resources

Bibliography

1. The Persian Empire

  A Discussion on How to Stay in Power

2. The Hellenistic Era

3. The Rise of Christianity

4. The Triumph of Christianity

5. The Byzantine Empire: 400- 650

6. Islam and the Arab Caliphate

7. Divisions within Islam & the Caliphate

8. The Arab Golden Age

9. The Byzantine Empire: 650-860

10. Glory Outside - Rot Inside (860- 1054)

11. Turks and Byzantine Decline

12. Crusaders and Mongols

13. The Birth of the Ottoman Empire

14. The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

15. The Ottoman Empire at its Peak

16. The Seeds of Decline

17. The Start of the Decline

18. Stagnation in the Ottoman Empire

19. The 19th Century

20. The End of the Ottoman Empire

21. The Aftermath of the Empires


Current Events: A video from Egypt

File Names

OLLI Workshop

Some of the material posted here is used for an OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) workshop at Stony Brook University. The following links point to index pages that haves furthers links to handouts distributed in some of the meetings.

 
Handouts for OLLI Workshop - Fall
 
 
 

First Posted: December 14, 2009. Latest Revision: December 28, 2011.


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