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Empires to Nation-States

Late Antiquity

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Explore intensifying political, military, commercial, religious and intellectual interrelationships of the Middle East with Mediterranean and European lands and peoples from 323 BCE to 622 CE.

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Ruins of Jerash, Oval Plaza

Jerash (Roman Gerasa) in Jordan was an elegant city of the so-called Decapolis (group of 10 cities). It flourished in the second through sixth centuries and gradually transformed itself into an Islamic town after the seventh century... [IMAGE GALLERY]

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