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AMMAN — For decades, many scholars have attempted to connect the Bronze Age with urbanism in the Levant and some of the archaeologists and historians have perceived this period as the initial phase of urbanisation. We are referring to the late fourth or early third millennia BC, when similar processes were occurring in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the areas that were politically
AMMAN — The Ottoman conquest of the Levant in 1517 had an impact on the economic models of the Mamluk dynasty that ruled the area from 1250 until 1517. One of the Mamluk state monopolies was the sugar production in the Dead Sea area, which supplied the state with a steady income. After the political transition in the 16th century, sugar production started to decline and
AMMAN — The Eastern Mediterranean and the Biladi Sham, also known as the Greater Syria, regions were linked to other regions through trade routes, according to an American historian who specialises in the history of mediaeval Muslim states and their fiscal policies.“We tend to look at Egypt and Syria as a kind of a unit because it was one political block during Fatimid,