How did a fertile region turn humankind from small tribes of hunter-gatherers into the civilizations we know today?

Where did writing, culture, and agriculture begin?

How did the belief in a single, all-powerful God sprout and thrive in a world where people worshiped many different gods?

These are just some of the questions you'll find answers to in History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt -...

Discover how disease, disaster, politics and invention ensured Europe's development into Modern times.

Human kind's thirst for knowledge, the sacrifice of the masses, and the lives and inventions of exceptional people drove the development of Modern Europe.

European History: The Most Important Leaders, Events, and People through "European History" That Shaped Europe and Eventually Became the European Union , delivers a quick glimpse at the tragedies and fortunes that made Europe what it is today.

You'll learn why the Renaissance was different, how the black...