The ENTIRE History of the Middle East in 13 Minutes

One of the first fights ever written down in the Middle East was over a ditch. Today, in a normal year, roughly a fifth of the world's oil passes through a single strait at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. So why did power in this region usually end up with whoever held what was flowing through it: river water, incense, silk, a canal, or oil? This documentary explores the complete history of the Middle East, from Göbekli Tepe and the first farmers, Uruk and the first writing, the canal war of Lagash and Umma, Sargon of Akkad, the merchants of Assur, Hammurabi and Sennacherib, to Cyrus the Great and the Royal Road, Alexander the Great, Petra and the incense route, Parthia and the Silk Road, the Sasanians, the rise of Islam, the Sunni and Shia split and Karbala, the Abbasid caliphate and Baghdad, the Seljuk Turks, the Crusades and Saladin, the Mongols and Ain Jalut, Vasco da Gama, the Safavids and the Ottomans, the struggle for Hormuz, Napoleon in Egypt, the Suez Canal, the first oil strike in Iran, Sykes-Picot and the mandates, Saudi oil, 1948, Mosaddegh, Nasser, OPEC, the 1973 oil embargo, the Iranian Revolution, the Gulf wars, the Arab Spring, and the Middle East today. Discover how water built the first cities, why a canal changed Egypt's master, and why the most precious flow in the region may once again be water. This documentary is based on historical sources and established historical research. Some visual scenes are illustrated with the help of AI to bring the story to life while remaining faithful to the historical record. #MiddleEast #MiddleEastHistory #Mesopotamia #Sumer #Babylon #PersianEmpire #SilkRoad #Petra #Baghdad #OttomanEmpire #SuezCanal #Oil #StraitOfHormuz #AncientHistory #History #WorldHistory #HistoryDocumentary #Documentary