CSPAN3 1964 Film The Middle East January 17, 2015
Where history began, History Today is made anew in lands once fabled and mysterious, yet as sharply real as a headline, the lands of the middle east. The maps of the middle ages used to show this region as the center of the world because of its inclusion of the holy land. Already then it was a cultural area rich in history. Western civilization began in the valleys of the nile, euphrates, and tigris rivers. Here men learned to domesticate animals, to write and make laws, and to worship one god. For three of the worlds great religions originated here. Christianity, judaism, and islam. Through 5...