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Title: Middle-East History in 90 Seconds
Post by: Sandwich on December 14, 2006, 06:40:10 pm: http://www.mivzakon.co.il/fun/flash/b.aspx?b=1074
Title: Re: Middle-East History in 90 Seconds
Post by: Rictor on December 14, 2006, 07:15:56 pm: Damn, the Seljuks had a good thing going there. One interesting thing is to see how many empires controled discontinous territory. Like there are big holes in their territorial boundaries, which I guess would be inhospitable or uninhabited places like the Sahara or Negev.

I guess they could also add modern incarnations of the Persian Empire or Crusader Kingdoms, depending on who you ask ;);)
Title: Re: Middle-East History in 90 Seconds
Post by: Sandwich on December 14, 2006, 07:19:03 pm: You list the Negev in the same breath as the Sahara?? Slight difference of scale there... ;)
Title: Re: Middle-East History in 90 Seconds
Post by: Rictor on December 14, 2006, 07:25:14 pm: Well...they're both deserts, aren't they? With sand? Truthfully, I don't really know with any accuracy how big either of those two are, though of course I imagine the Sahara is quite a bit bigger.
Title: Re: Middle-East History in 90 Seconds
Post by: Gank on December 15, 2006, 06:50:37 am: Nice, shame its not continuous though, be nice to see all the various nations in interaction with each other. Middle east has such a depth of documented history, all of it violent, the best type.
Title: Re: Middle-East History in 90 Seconds
Post by: Fragrag on December 15, 2006, 02:59:45 pm: First time I fully realise the scale of the Mongoloid Empire, which is FRIKKIN' huge. :O
Title: Re: Middle-East History in 90 Seconds
Post by: Quest_techie on December 15, 2006, 04:17:12 pm: I have seen a lot of different spellings of saladin

good to know it isn't just dumb americans who go with the hyper phoenetic one
Title: Re: Middle-East History in 90 Seconds
Post by: Unknown Target on December 15, 2006, 04:23:26 pm: Wow, some of those empires were simply massive. I didn't realize how far the Roman empire stretched.
Title: Re: Middle-East History in 90 Seconds
Post by: Sandwich on December 15, 2006, 06:33:50 pm: Quote from: Rictor on December 14, 2006, 07:25:14 pm
Well...they're both deserts, aren't they? With sand? Truthfully, I don't really know with any accuracy how big either of those two are, though of course I imagine the Sahara is quite a bit bigger.

The Sahara has sand (I presume); the Negev has soil that lacks decent rainfall.

The Sahara is over 3.5 million square miles. For comparison, the USA is 3.7 million square miles.

The Negev is around ~5 thousand square miles. For comparison, it is basically half of Israel's land area. Israel is approximately the same size as Pennsylvania.
Title: Re: Middle-East History in 90 Seconds
Post by: Ford Prefect on December 15, 2006, 09:45:35 pm: Quote from: Fragrag on December 15, 2006, 02:59:45 pm
First time I fully realise the scale of the Mongoloid Empire, which is FRIKKIN' huge. :O
The empire of fruit cups and short buses?
Title: Re: Middle-East History in 90 Seconds
Post by: Rictor on December 15, 2006, 10:42:24 pm: Beat me to it.

But really, is anyone suprised by the success of the Mongoloid Empire? After all, they did have retard strength. Who wouldn't get freaked out seeing a horde of towering foreheads charging at them, ready to strike down everything in its path.