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Situated between three continents, the region of Palestine has a tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. The region was among the earliest to see human habitation, agricultural communities and civilization.
Situated between three continents, the region of Palestine has a tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. The region was among the earliest to see human habitation, agricultural communities and civilization.
Palestine continued to be a war-torn and much-contested region up through World War II when, afterwards, the United Nations declared the area the State of Israel and established it as a homeland for the Jewish people.
Timeline. Nomads settle the region and initiate agriculture during the Early Bronze Age. Cities develop and trade expands in the region during the Middle Bronze Age. Palestine becomes important trade hub. Palestine is absorbed by the Egyptian Empire, flourishes in trade.
Situated between three continents, the region of Palestine has a tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce, and politics. The region was among the earliest to see human habitation, agricultural communities and civilization.
Origins of the conflict. Balfour Declaration, statement of British support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”... Hussein-McMahon correspondence, series of letters exchanged in 1915–16, during World War I, between Hussein ibn Ali, emir...
In Palestine: History of Palestine. The Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age) in Palestine was first fully examined by the British archaeologist Dorothy Garrod in her excavations of caves on the slopes of Mount Carmel in 1929–34. The finds showed that….
Before Israel became a nation, the majority of people dwelling in the region were Arabs who lived in what was then known as Palestine.
1947 - United Nations recommends partition of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states after Britain signals end to Mandate, with international control over Jerusalem and its environs. Arab...
History & Background. The question of Palestine was brought before the United Nations shortly after the end of the Second World War. The origins of the Palestine problem as an...