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The North-South Struggle for the Middle East |
In ancient times, kings of the two great river-valley civilizations-Mesopotamia and Egypt-dreamed of controlling the entire Middle East. Invariably their path to imperial conquest ran north and south through the Holy Land, the narrow land bridge between Eurasia and Africa through which trade and military traffic had to flow.
Whether it involved Babylonian, Assyrian or Persian emperors from the north or Egyptian pharaohs from the south, the threat to the inhabitants of this crucial strip of land at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea was almost constant.
Throughout the course of history, rule over the Holy Land has often changed hands, the inhabitants being at times autonomous but usually subject to some great regional power.
Around 536 B.C., in the third year of the reign of Persian emperor Cyrus the Great, an angel delivered to the Hebrew prophet Daniel a prophecy of what would happen in years to come (Daniel 10:1,14). At that time Persia under Cyrus was the dominant power in the Middle East.
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