HIST114 Lecture 3: Hist114 - Lecture 3
19 Jan 2018
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Syria - history and present: sykes-picot agreement, 1916 (british and french dividing the near east and the middle. East) - was part of the ottoman empire before wwi. Levant its latin root "levare" meaning "to raise," from where the sun would rise in the east. Region where many traded goods came from that eventually went to france. Many races and cultures intermixed, many religions mixed, many goods were traded, and violence was rampant. Jerusalem was the most important religious place in the world, and is today. Sovereignty & independence: hellenistic seleucid dynasty, based out of antioch (the city of antakya in modern-day. Turkey) from 301 to 141 b. c: umayyad caliphate, based out of damascus, from a. d. 661 to 749. These were the two periods of time that syria could claim independence due to weak military, weak geography due to being a borderland, and wide variety of loyalties in people. Byzantine syria: christians (mostly eastern orthodox) formed the majority.
