The Pre-Islamic Middle East:
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: April 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780275968908
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: BCE to c 500 CE; Political geography; Political science & theory; Geopolitics; Middle East - History; History - General History; History: World; Ancient World; Middle East; Ancient - General; Ethnic Studies - General; Middle East - General; History / Middle East; History; To 622
First sentence: The political history of the Middle East in antiquity is principally the story of the continuing struggle for control of the Fertile Crescent, the arching swath of territory circumscribing the Arabian Desert between Egypt and the lands of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that the Roman emperor Trajan named Mesopotamia.