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This 10 page paper how and why imperialism took place in the Middle East. The paper covers history form the emergence of written records up to The Treaty of Versailles. This includes the Hellenic conquest of Alexander the Great, the Roman conquest, the Crusades, the Suez Canal and the roles of Spain, France, and Britain. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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an almost constant influence. Imperialism is often associated with the empire building of European countries and the development of colonies, although these are influences, imperialism in the Middle East starts
a long time before this. In looking at imperialism we first need to define what this is, in the broadest of senses it is the extension of influence and
power of one nation over another for their own benefit by the development of a hegemony in the area or region. Some of the earliest recorded imperialism appears
to be occurring around the Middle East. Overall in Egypt and Mesopotamia there is a desire to spread and expand, with their own form of imperialism, one good example is
that of Assyria as an Imperial power, then the Persian Empire. One case of imperialism is recorded as taking place between 1650 - 1550 BCE (Before Common Era). This was
the second intermediate period in Egypt that extended from the fourteenth to the seventeenth dynasties (Thornton, 2003). The time was one where there was increase social instability, and as
such the country was weak. We ca assert there was imperialism here as the ruling of Egypt was by a series of non Egyptians, known as the Semitic Kings, named
Hyksos, meaning princes of the foreign lands (Thornton, 2003). They had come down from the Northeast in horse drawn chariots and were Seth worshippers (Thornton, 2003). When Manetho, a priest
who rules around 250 BCE, writes of this period in an historical context this is describe as a reign of terror. However, it is also worth noting that
the history by Manetho is also the earliest discovered written history. Imperialism for the West is first seen with the conquest by Alexander the Great starting in 334
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