True History of the Middle East with Simon Sebag Montefiore
3:01which was at that point the Ottoman Empire which controlled pretty much all of that region at the time and it's it's its collapse following World War I that leads to much of the ch7:40superficial analysis that it's hard to have control over any of those portions if unless you're really really tough. Yeah.7:47Unless you're willing to be quite brutal about it. And the Ottomans controlled that area for 400 years. It's therefore no surprise then that once the empire














