IS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fertile Crescent
1 Dec 2017
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Islamic world: the total number of the world"s muslim majority countries in asia, africa, the. From past to present: fertile crescent, area in which three of the world"s earliest civilizations arose, nile, jordan, tigris, and euphrates rivers. Invention of agriculture: origin of many religions. Invasions: crusades were efforts by western europeans to take back the christian holy land (11th century) In the 13th and 14th centuries, the mongols invaded, killing more than 1 million people: throughout the 15th century, the ottoman empire was on the rise, after 1700, the ottoman empire struggled, some territories declared independence, and. European nations claimed colonies in north africa: ottoman empire ultimately collapsed after ww1. Colonialism: colonialism the political, economic, and cultural domination of middle eastern societies by european powers, after ww1, great britain created jordan, iraq, and kuwait, and conslidated control of egypt, Sudan, and palestine: france assumed control of syria and lebanon; consolidated control of morocco,
