Middle Eastern History Flashcards: From Sumer and Persia to the Arab Spring
Study Middle Eastern history with 76 flashcards: Sumer, Assyria, Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian Persia, Rome, Ottomans, oil, 1948 and the Arab Spring.
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The deck Middle Eastern History: Ancient Persia to Modern (code QW1677, 76 cards) promises a Persian storyline, but the cards actually tell the whole history of the Middle East, twice. Understand its structure first and the 76 cards become a clean timeline from the Sumerians to the Arab Spring.
Study this deck: Middle Eastern History: Ancient Persia to Modern
1 / 10What was the Middle East's role in civilization?
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
Know the deck's two halves
- Cards 1-34: the fast overview. From the cradle of civilization to Islam, the Seljuks, Mongols, Ottomans, oil, 1948, the Six-Day War, the 1973 embargo, the Iranian Revolution and IS in 2013.
- Cards 35-76: the deep ancient block. It restarts at Homo erectus (1.8 million years BP) and ends in 525 AD with the Aksum-Himyar clash.
Study the second block first: it builds the ancient foundations the overview only names. Then use cards 1-34 as your bridge to the modern era.
Cards worth learning early
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| Who was Sargon the Great? | About 2340 BC unified the southern city-states, founding the Akkadian dynasty, the world's first empire |
| Who was Enheduanna? | Sargon's daughter, High Priestess of Inanna at Ur; first known author in history |
| What was the Assyrian Empire's peak? | 911-605 BC Neo-Assyrian Empire, the largest the world had seen |
| What was the Achaemenid Empire? | The first Persian Empire, conquered in the late 4th century BC by Alexander the Great |
| What was the Parthian Empire? | Revived the Persian Empire idea in the 3rd century BC |
| Which country first fully colonized a Middle Eastern country? | Portugal, Bahrain, 1521 |
| When was oil first discovered in Persia? | 1908, followed by Bahrain in 1932 |
| What was the 1973 OPEC oil embargo? | A response to US support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War |
Names and terms you'll cover
Sumer, Akkad, Old, Middle, New and Late Kingdoms of Egypt, Ebla, Ugarit, Aram-Damascus, Israel, Judah, Ammon, Moab, Edom, the Nabataeans, Phoenicia and Carthage (814 BC), the Medes, the Neo-Babylonian Empire, Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanians, Pompey (66-63 BC), Ægyptus, the Church of the East, mystery cults (Cybele, Isis, Mithra), Aksum vs Himyar, the Seljuks, Safavids, pan-Arabism, Salafism and the Arab Spring.
Fix these cards before drilling
- Delete card 74. Its back literally says the Royal Proclamation of 1763 is American history.
- Card 58 (the Medes): they were an Iranian people, not a "Persian state", and their power peaked in the 7th century BC before Cyrus absorbed them around 550 BC.
- Card 57 (Assyria's impact): "gift of civilization on barbaric communities" is opinion, not fact. Replace it with "deportation policy and imperial administration".
- Cards 10, 64 and 73 repeat the Sasanian story. Keep 64, with its dates (224-651 AD).
The Persian spine the title promises
Pull out cards 6, 58-60, 63-65 and 10 and order them: Medes, Achaemenids (550-330 BC), Seleucids, Parthians (247 BC-224 AD), Sasanians (224-651). Then write the missing cards: Cyrus the Great, Darius I, the Arab conquest of Persia, and Ismail I founding the Safavids in 1501. The deck mentions dynasties but never their founders.
For the rest of Asia, continue with our Chinese dynasties study guide.
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