{"id":12354,"date":"2006-10-10T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/the-middle-east-in-90-seconds\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T21:48:00","slug":"the-middle-east-in-90-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/the-middle-east-in-90-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Middle East in 90 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Maps of War<\/i> poses the question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans&hellip;the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Check out the very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofwar.com\/ind\/imperial-history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Flash video below that displays a short geographical history of the Middle East in 90 seconds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/history\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/maps\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">maps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/geography\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">geography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/flash\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">flash<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/culture\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/video\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-116051671657468502?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maps of War poses the question: Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans&hellip;the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question. Check out the very cool Flash video below that displays a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/the-middle-east-in-90-seconds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Middle East in 90 Seconds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}