WATCH: More than half of Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenians have now left
Azerbaijan and Armenia have disputed the ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh since 1988.
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Azerbaijan and Armenia have disputed the ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh since 1988.
United to fight a war, they remain divided in spirit. >> david realizes that with his charisma, he can really unite them, and that united they're a force to be reckoned with at a time when in the middle east, virtually all the great powers such as egypt are in decline, and that's a time when a relatively small power can achieve great conquests. >> so how does he maintain the peace? what can david do to prove to the 12 tribes that he's not just going to favor his home tribes? he's going to choose a capital that will be a compromise. >> he settles on a small mountain enclave built by canaanites ...
Going to favor his home tribes? he's going to choose a capital that will be a compromise. >> he settles on a small-mountain enclave built by canaanites over 2,000 years earlier. jerusalem. >> jerusalem is a particularly unpromising spot to have become as important as it became. it doesn't have a strategic location. it's not even on a waterway, on a river, or anything like that. >> jerusalem was chosen as a capital city because of where it lay. it was right in the middle. kind of, like, washington, d.c. and the united states. >> the great thing about jerusalem was it was impregnable. it was a f...
Them, and that united they're a force to be reckoned with at a time when in the middle east, virtually all the great powers such as egypt are in decline, and that's a time when a relatively small power can achieve great conquests. >> so how does he maintain the peace? what can david do to prove to the 12 tribes that he's not just going to favor his home tribes? he's going to choose a capital that will be a compromise. >> he settles on a small mountain enclave built by canaanites over 2,000 years earlier, jerusalem. >> jerusalem is a particularly unpromising spot to have become as important as ...
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