POLI SCI 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gunpowder Empires, Arabian Peninsula, Rashidun
11 Apr 2018
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Con(cid:565)ict, instability, turmoil, war, complicated, journalism, oil, religious, revolution, changing. Who gets what, when, and how lasswell) Key to this: power - how it is acquired and applied. There are diverse interests/goals/ideas/priorities, and there for scarce resources causes struggles. Term (cid:564)rst used in1900s by british army to di erentiate b/w (cid:522)far east(cid:523) asia) and (cid:522)near east(cid:523) egypt). Came up w/ term middle east to refer to countries in between. However, widely used, people within the region identify as it. Turkey, iran israel, most of 22 arab league countries. Historically, this was an area of empires. Outside byzantine empire - arabian peninsula - people known as arabs, speaking. Arab language, nomadic tribes, worshipping idols - bedouins. Political unit used to be empire, rather than nation-state. 7th century - rise of islam changes region. Muslims believe he received commandments of god, recited them and wrote them down in the u"ran.
