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  2. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. ... Three Kingdoms (220–265) Jin dynasty (266–420) ... Middle Kingdom (three ...

  3. Middle Eastern empires - Wikipedia

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    The First Eblait kingdom at its greatest territorial extent c. 2600 BCE, often described as the first great power in history. Ebla was an important center throughout the 3rd millennium BCE and in the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE.

  4. Timeline of Middle Eastern history - Wikipedia

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    This timeline tries to show dates of important historical events that happened in or that led to the rise of the Middle East/ South West Asia .The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

  5. Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Middle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past.

  6. History of the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    The modern Middle East was shaped by three things: departure of European powers, the founding of Israel, and the growing importance of the oil industry. These developments eventually led to increased U.S. involvement in the region. The U.S. was the ultimate guarantor of the region's stability as well as the dominant force in the oil industry ...

  7. List of ancient great powers - Wikipedia

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    The Assyrian kings controlled a large kingdom at three different times in history. These are called the Old, Middle, and Neo-Assyrian kingdoms, or periods. [13] The most powerful and best-known nation of these periods is the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 934–609 BC. [16]

  8. Egyptian chronology - Wikipedia

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    For the Old Kingdom, consensus fluctuates by as much as a few centuries, but for the Middle and New Kingdoms, it has been stable to within a few decades. This is illustrated by comparing the chronology as given by two Egyptologists, the first writing in 1906, the second in 2000 (all dates in the table are BC).

  9. Dynasties of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The early dynasties and the three Kingdoms are blue, with darker colours meaning older. Intermediate periods are red, orange, and yellow. Note that multiple dynasties could reign from different cities simultaneously in intermediate periods and at the end of the Middle Kingdom.