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Crossroads of war, a historical atlas of the Middle East, Ian Barnes with Malise Ruthven

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-219) and index

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Crossroads of war

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Ian Barnes with Malise Ruthven

a historical atlas of the Middle East

From the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century, vying armies have clashed over the territory stretching from the Upper Nile to modern-day Iraq and Iran. Crossroads of War captures five millennia of conflict and conquest in detailed full-color maps, accompanied by incisive, accessible commentary. -- from book jacket

Ancient Times -- First Towns, Cities, and Armies -- Mesopotamia and Sargon the Great c. 2279 BCE -- Babylonian Empire c. 2000--1500 BCE -- Hittite Empire -- Egypt's New Kingdom c. 1550--1077 BCE -- The Sea Peoples -- Battle of Megiddo 1457 BCE -- Battle of Kadesh 1275 BCE -- States and Kingdoms 1500--c. 700 BCE -- The Assyrian Empire -- The Assyrian Empire under Tiglath-Pileser and the Struggle for Egypt 674--663 BCE -- Nebuchadnezzar and New Babylon 625--539 BCE -- Darius I and the Persian Empire c. 520 BCE -- Xenophon and the Ten Thousand -- Alexander of Macedon 356--323 BCE -- Diadochi---Alexander's Warring Successors -- Pompey and the Arrival of Rome -- Battle of Carrhae 53 BCE -- First Jewish Revolt 66--74 CE -- Siege of Jerusalem 70 CE -- The Parthian Wars -- Rome's Eastern Borders 114--627 CE -- Bar Kokhba Revolt 132--136 CE -- The Sassanian Empire 224--651 CE -- Palmyra and the East 260--273 CE -- Trade Routes and their Protectors -- Biblical Interlude -- Hebrew Assault on Canaan -- Struggles of the Judges -- Saul, King of Israel c. 1021--1000 BCE -- King David -- Solomon's Empire -- Shoshenk's Campaign in Palestine c. 925 BCE -- Omri's Dynasty -- Jewish Renaissance -- Assyrian Attacks -- Maccabean Revolt 167--160 BCE -- Hasmonean Expansion -- Herod -- Clash of Faiths -- Armenia and the Battle of Avarayr 451 CE -- The Middle East at the Dawn of Islam -- Islam and Arab Conquests 632--718 -- Battle of Yarmuk 636 -- The Saljuq Turks -- Battle of Manzikert 1071 -- Christian Crusades and Crusader Kingdoms 1095--1270 -- Saladin's Campaigns 1173--85 -- Horns of Hattin 1187 -- Battle of Arsuf 1191 -- Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Khariji 660--c. 1000 -- The Mongols and Ayn Jalut 1260 -- Mamluk Power -- Timur the Lame's Dominions 1370--1405 -- Spoils of War---the Command of Trade Routes 712--1300 -- Ottoman Expansion 1328--1672 -- Struggle for Persia 1501--1785 -- Ottoman Decline -- Rise of the Saudi State 1902--1929 -- European Intervention -- Napoleon's Egyptian Adventures 1798--1801 -- Muhammad Ali Pasha's Wars---Egyptian Expansion 1805--47 -- Arabi Pasha and British Intervention in Egypt 1882 -- The Dream of Israel -- World War I---The Gallipoli Campaign 1915--1916 -- Palestine Front 1914--17 -- Mesopotamian Front 1914--18 -- Sykes-Picot Plan---Dividing the Ottoman Empire May 1916 -- T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt 1916--18 -- The Road to Damascus 1917--18 -- Treaty of Lausanne and League of Nation Mandates 1923 -- The Arab Rising 1936--37 -- Iraq, Syria, and Persia April--September, 1941 -- El Alamein II 1942 -- Technology and Society -- Aliyah 1945--48 -- The First Arab-Israeli War 1948 -- The Fate of the Palestinians 1948 -- Suez---War of Collusion -- Six-Day War---Israel and the Arabs 1967 -- Oil Power -- The October War 1973 -- Israel in Lebanon and Gaza 1982--2012 -- Regional Fault Lines -- Iran-Iraq War 1980--88 -- Gulf War 1990--91 (Operation Desert Storm) -- Second Gulf War 2003--11 -- Arab Spring

Historical atlas of the Middle East