{"id":389,"date":"2006-10-07T16:41:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/10\/07\/who-controlled-the-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2006-10-07T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T13:41:03","slug":"who-controlled-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/07\/who-controlled-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Controlled the Middle East?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tell my students that knowing the history of the Levant (aka western end of Fertile Crescent, land of Israel, land of Palestine, Middle East) is like knowing the history of the world, as everybody who was anybody controlled this tiny strip of land.<\/p>\n<p>This 90-second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofwar.com\/ind\/imperial-history.html\">flash presentation<\/a> animates that idea.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"center.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/center.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image388\" alt=\"center.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/center.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tell my students that knowing the history of the Levant (aka western end of Fertile Crescent, land of Israel, land of Palestine, Middle East) is like knowing the history of the world, as everybody who was anybody controlled this tiny strip of land. This 90-second flash presentation animates that idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}