CONTENTS
 
World History PicturePack Collection B: Middle Eastern History
 
 Everything listed below is included in this single PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.

ME01: The Ancient Middle East ● A global view of the Middle East ● Map of five major ancient Middle East empires ● Remains of temple at Ur in present-day Iraq ● Semitic nomads enter Egypt, 2nd millennium B.C ● Egyptian wall painting depicts conquest of Egypt ● Two of the great stone pyramids at Giza, Egypt ● Pyramid of Chephren and the Sphinx at Giza, Egypt ● Detail, statue of Ramses II from temple at Luxor ● Engraving from Egyptian stele, woman doctor ● Hammurabi, King of Babylon ● Pre-Hittite bronze figurine, Anatolia (Turkey) ● Open-air Hittite temple at Boghazkoy, Yazilikay ● Sennacherib laying seige to the city of Lachish ● Goat artwork, 6th/5th century B.C ● A map of the Hellenistic empire under Alexander ● Detail, Pahlavi text Artae Viraz Namak ● Monumental ruins, Sasanian palace near Baghdad ● Silver head of woman from Persia, 1st century B.C ● Moses and the Ten Commandments ● The amphitheater at Pergamum in western Anatolia ● Excavations at Carthage in Tunisia ● Ancient subterranean cisterns at Carthage ● Sketch of Hanna sailing around Gibraltar ● Map, Greek (pink) and Roman (buff) empires ● Colossal stone heads at Adiyaman, Mount Nemrut ● The Celsius Library at Ephesus in western Turkey ● Statue of Virgin Mary at Ephesus, western Turkey ● Ancient synagogue at Capernaum, modern-day Israel ● A Ptolemy map of the then inhabited world ● Shepherd and flock of sheep near Irbid, Jordan
 

ME02: Islam ● Closeup, Kaaba, center of Great Mosque at Mecca ● The mosque at Medina, in western Arabia ● Successors to Muhammad expanded Islamic state ● Pilgrims arriving at Mecca to perform hajj ● Pilgrims en route to Mecca ● Muslim pilgrims encamped in tents at Mecca, 1889 ● Muslims performing one of five daily prayers ● Page from an ancient copy of the Quran ● Painted bowl dating from 10th century Iraq ● Painted bowl dating from 12th century Egypt ● An intricate gold ewer crafted in Buyid Persia ● Plate with painted calligraphy, Samanid Persia ● A gold bracelet from early 11th century Syria ● 13th century penbox inlaid with copper and silver ● Mid-13th century Syrian brass and silver canteen ● Brass ewer inlaid with silver and copper, Syria ● Brass basin with silver, 13th c. Egypt or Syria ● A mosque lamp made of gilded and enameled glass ● Brass candlestick inlaid with silver, from Turkey ● 14th c. brass bowl, inlaid with silver and gold ● Axe head, 16-17th century Iran ● Islamic artist's vision of paradise ● A variety of fabrics were produced and traded ● Painted bowl from Kajar Iran in the 19th century ● Quranic school in Cairo in the late 19th century ● Shopkeepers outside of Mosque of St. Catherine's ● Tomb, Sufi mystic poet, Jalal ad-Din Rumi ● A group of adepts of the Mevlevi Sufi ● Shi'ite city of Qom (or Qum) Persia around 1700 ● Mosque and tombs of 9th Shi'ite Imams ● After the overthrow of the Umayyad dynasty ● Muslim women on the streets of the Casbah, 1900 ● Muslim girls embroidering, Algiers, ca. 1900 ● The al-Azhar Mosque and University, Cairo, Egypt ● A way station for trading caravans ● The city of Damascus about 1575 ● An astrolabe ● Detail from Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine ● An anatomical sketch , 1396 ● An early Muslim sickroom scene ● A castle and sunset at Lake Van in eastern Turkey ● A painted pitcher showing animals running ● The carved portal of the Ince Minare Medrese ● Timur (also known as Tamerlane, (ca. 1336-1405) ● A drawing of two fettered demons from Iranp
 

ME03: The Ottoman Empire ● A map showing the rise of the Ottoman Empire ● Mehmet II, conqueror of Istanbul ● Sultan Sulayman on a hunting expedition ● The Selimiye Mosque ● The Ishak Pasha palace at Dogubeyazit in Turkey ● The Sultanahmet Mosque at Istanbul, Turkey ● Public scribes, 18th century Ottoman Empire ● Portuguese fleet attacking Turkish galleys ● 17th century sea battle, Europeans vs. Ottomans ● Map showing decline of the Ottoman Empire ● Selim III, Ottoman ruler from 1789 to 1807 ● Mahmud II, the Ottoman sultan from 1808 to 1839 ● The Ortakay Mosque at Istanbul, Turkey ● Naval battle, Greek struggle vs. Ottoman rule ● Harbor scene, Istanbul as it appeared in 1830s ● The Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid with his vizier ● Landing of French infantry at Gallipolli, Turkey ● Montenegrin peasants flee burning villages, 1861 ● Abdulaziz, The Ottoman Sultan from 1861 to 1876 ● Sultan Abdulhamid II, ruler of Ottoman Empire ● Resting after battle during Turkish revolution ● Turkish infantry unit at rest during World War I
 

ME04: 20th Century Turkey, Saudi Arabia, & Iraq ● Two Arab resistance leaders condemned to death ● A portrait of Mustapha Kemal (1881-1938) ● The Atatürk Mausoleum in Ankara ● Conducting a census in Turkey, October 20, l935 ● Mustapha Kemal gave women political rights ● Turkey adopting a new alphabet ● A woman judge holding court in Turkey ● The Karabuk steel plant in Turkey ● Sharif of Mecca and Governor of Medina ● Abd al-Aziz (Ibn Saud, 1880-1953) in 1945 ● Faisal I (1885-1933), the first King of Iraq 
 

ME05: 20th Century Israel, Palestine, Persia, & Iran ● British Field Marshal Edmund H. H. Allenby ● Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) ● Second Zionist Congress, Basle, Switzerland 1898 ● The Balfour Declaration, dated November 2, 1917 ● Tents of new Jewish immigrants in Palestine 1918 ● Palestinians demonstrate vs. Balfour Declaration ● Dam, hydroelectric plant on Jordan River in 1932 ● First congress of Arab women in Jerusalem 1929 ● Police intervene between Arabs and Jews at Jaffa ● The city of Beirut around 1860 ● Shah Abbas I, also known as Abbas the Great ● The royal palace at Isfahan, Persia 1880 ● The King of Persia on his throne ● Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878-1944) 
  

ME06: Northern, Notheast Africa to 1945 ● Sultan of Morocco on his way to Kutubia Mosque ● Political poster from the Cairo Punch ● Herbert Lyautey (1854-1934), Morocco official ● Abd al-Krim (1882-1963) under arrest ● Moroccans students with teacher in Quranic school ● Muhammad V (1910-1961), king of Morocco ● Tunis, capital and largest city of Tunisia, 1900 ● Throne room of the Bardo Palace at Tunis ● Former President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia ● Lord Exmouth with Algerian Dey Umar Pasha ● The French military campaign in Algeria ● Algerian resistance leader Abd al-Qadir ● Napoleon III at Cathedral of Algiers ● Algiers and the coast, around 1900 ● An Algerian copper mine, mid-19th century ● Casks of wine awaiting shipment at Algiers port ● A railway in the Algerian Sahara ● Group of Spahis in France, 1914 ● Citadel in Cairo ● The Battle of the Nile, August 1-3, 1798 ● Muhammad Ali, the founder of modern Egypt ● Animal-driven irrigation machinery in Egypt ● Laying Red Sea telegraph cable at Aden, 1859 ● Gold/silver specie destined for India & China ● The Suez Canal in 1875, six years after it opened ● A locomotive engine for Sa'id, the Pasha of Egypt ● Ahmad Urabi, Egyptian nationalist leader ● British naval brigade in Urabi-led rebellion,1882 ● European's depiction Battle of Tel-el-Kebir 1882 ● Cairo Punch cartoon of British Viceroy Gorst ● Demonstration by Egyptian Nationalist Wafd Party ● King Farouk of Egypt ● The Mahdi of the Sudan (1843-1885) ● Egyptians and British pull steamer up Nile rapids ● Easter banquet at Ankobar, in mid-19th century ● Tukul huts in Ethiopia ● Women trading goods in the market of Dire Dawa ● Ethiopian workers weaving rugs ● The Court of Justice of the King of Shoa ● Old King's Castle at Gondar in Ethiopia ● King Menelik II (1844-1913) ● Empress Tauti (or Taytu) wife of King Menelik ● The surrender of Italian officers to King Menelik ● Emperor Haile Selassie
  

ME07: World War II in North Africa ● Abyssinian infantry detachment in war with Italy ● British Bren gun carriers advance on Bardia ● Union Jack is hoisted in Benghazi, Cyrenaica 1941 ● British troops in ruins at Palmyra, inSyria, 1941 ● German General Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) 1941 ● British tank passes burning German tank in desert ● Retreating British troops in the desert ● General Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976) ● A column of Axis prisoners in the desert, 1942 ● Shells from French ship explode near U.S. cruiser ● U.S. artillerymen firing a 105mm howitzer ● Free French troops parade in occupied Tunis 1943 
 

ME08: The Arab-Israeli Wars ● Ismet Inonu (1884-1973) with his wife, Mevhibe ● The iron and steel mill at Karabuk ● U.S. military equipment arriving in Turkey, 1948 ● Map: areas Kurdish concentration in Middle East ● Ruins of King David Hotel after bombing, 1946 ● Jewish refugees arrive by boat at Haifa (Jaffa) ● David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) ● Israeli convoy during first Arab-Israeli war ● Officer inspecting troops of Arab Liberation Army ● Ralph Bunche (1904-1971) ● Palestinian woman and child near Jerusalem 1948 ● The Israeli Knesset or Parliament in session ● A textile factory in Israel ● Israeli troops in Old City of Jerusalem ● Egyptian pontoon bridge used to cross Suez Canal ● Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel with Nixon ● Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin  
 

ME09: Modern Middle East ● 1982 political map of Israel & neighboring states ● Gamal Abd al-Nasser (1918-1970) ● A container ship on the Suez Canal ● The effects of irrigation in Egypt ● President Anwar Sadat of Egypt (1918-1981) ● Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ● A steel mill in Helwan, Egypt ● Expressways and modern buildings, downtown Cairo ● A slum community just outside of Cairo in 1979 ● King Abdullah of Jordan ● King Hussein, Jordan meeting Vice-President Nixon ● Amman, the capital of Jordan ● An Arab nationalist demonstration in Syria ● U.S. marines and a tank on the streets of Beirut ● Refugees living in tents in a camp near Beirut ● Yasir Arafat, Chairman of the PLO ● Syrian military forces in Lebanon in l976 ● Norwegian soldier of UN Interim Force in Lebanon ● Israeli armored personnel carrier in Beirut, 1982 ● Ruins of residential neighborhood in Beirut 1982 ● American military patrol near Beirut airport 1983 ● King Faisal (ca.1906-1975), King of Saudi Arabia ● Saudi Arabian leaders, Khalid and Fahd ● Political map of northeast Africa and Middle East ● A graphic map of world oil reserves ● Jiddah, Saudi port city on the Red Sea ● A Saudi Arabian desalinization plant ● Supertankers loading oil off coast of Kuwait ● United Arab Emirates TV technician ● Adult literacy class in Yemen Arab Republic, 1983 ● Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran ● Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh ● Anti-American graffiti painted on wall in Teheran ● Peacock Throne in Gulistan Palace, Teheran ● The Iranian oil refinery in the Persian Gulf ● King Idris I of Libya after independence in 1951 ● Leather dyers' vats in Fez ● King Mohammed V of Morocco ● King Hassan II of Morocco in 1983 ● French authorities rounding up Algerian suspects ● Armed Algerian rebels carrying a wounded comrade ● Houari Boumedienne, a former President of Algeria ● Chadli Benjadid, President of Algeria