HIS201H5 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 Note
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His201 - lecture 2: mapping- how to visualize and understand place being studied, not just literal meaning of a map, what is considered the middle east today is a historically unstable region. Paradigms: what good are paradigms civilizations and their problems. The orient": the space between east and west, the place where islam rules, alternative designation: western asia, the construction of geographic blocks, a history of shifting meanings. In this way germany was excluded from the west and placed among others in the. Bric alternative mapping: russia, brazil, india, china consist of the counter g8 mapping, going against categorizations of the nato idea of the west. Western asia and arabia, c. 630: persian empire was at war even at the classical greek period, descriptions and images of battles between alexander and persian armies, ruled from iraq all the way to the iranian afghan border.
