18-2 History of the Middle East

Maps and photos

Cuneiform clay tablet

Cuneiform

Pyramids at Giza

Pyramids at Giza

Heiroglyphics

Phoenicians

Phoenician alphabet

Persian Empire 500 BC

Judaism

Abraham's Journey from Ur to Canaan

1850Oil on canvas by József Molnár

Continued from previous map

Islam

Islamic Empire

Dome of the Rock Mosque

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/specials/0007/mideast.issue/jerusalem.html

Nighttime Dome of the Rock Mosque

Buying Ice Cream in Jerusalem

Top Row – Hindu (Hindi) numbers

Middle Row – Arabic numbers

Bottom Row – European/Western numbers

               Rabin and Arafat signed the historic Oslo agreement in September 1993 to place the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip, and eventually the rest of the West Bank, under Palestinian rule.

From Time.com

Persian Gulf War 1990

http://www.historyguy.com/GulfWar.html Source: http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/neareast/gulfwar.gif

Saddam Hussein