• Middle Eastern History

  • History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - from the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today’s Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq, and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History
  • By: Raymond C. Nelson
  • Narrated by: Trevor Clinger
  • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
  • 2.6 out of 5 stars (36 ratings)

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Middle Eastern History

By: Raymond C. Nelson
Narrated by: Trevor Clinger
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How did a fertile region turn humankind from small tribes of hunter-gatherers into the civilizations we know today?

Where did writing, culture, and agriculture begin?

How did the belief in a single, all-powerful God sprout and thrive in a world where people worshiped many different gods?

These are just some of the questions you’ll find answers to in History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today’s Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq, and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.

The Middle East is the cradle of civilization - where humankind once roamed in small groups of hunter-gatherers and foraged for food and shelter, then learned to plant crops and build structures. Today, we are an advanced civilization that has conquered the skies, oceans, and even the moon. To understand how this transformation occurred, take a brief trip back into the history of the Middle East, where it all began.

Go back to the origins of humankind, where two rivers formed the Fertile Crescent and civilization sprouted.

Hear the Abrahamic Religions bud in the Levant along the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and develop into Judaism and Christianity.

Listen as the steady march of empires hold sway over Middle Eastern trade, resources, religion and culture for millennia.

Visit the sacred cities whose connections to holy people and events sparked bitter conflict.

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Narrator was not good. Sounded like a robot reading program. I was very disappointed. This topic is so important for us all to understand. I did like the review questions at the end of each chapter; but they were read through to fast.

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Far too short and the reader was horrendous

I rather enjoy the history of the Middle East which is why it is sad that I did not enjoy this book. First off, I love learning about the history of the region but this book doesn't cover nearly enough about anything. It is too brief and the voice was at times so monotonous I found myself falling asleep while trying to listen to one of my favorite subjects. Not a good sign in my opinion. Not only was the reader not very appealing to listen to but was full of pronunciation errors. Sorry to say I wouldn't recommend.

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Automata reader

Very annoying to hear. The reader sounds like a machine. I thought this would end in the preface. However the whole book is narrated like an impersonal computer.

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It’s a robot like reading!

So unfortunate that the performance is extremely annoying. I think it has been read by a machine. I didn’t last long :(

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Terrible narrator

So bad I couldn’t even get through the beginning of the first real chapter (chapter 2 was the table of contents). I wish I could get back my credit wasted on this selection.

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Poor Quality

A disappointing book. The narrator was monotone if robotic voice which the book hard to follow

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Was a human reading this?

I have listened to hundreds of audio books, and this is the worst narrator I have heard by a long shot. It sounds as if it is read by a computer designed by the Chinese. Many words are mis-pronounced -- over and over -- and the emphasis on the wrong syllable or totally mangling words that anyone familiar with the Middle East should know is inexcusable. It sounded as if the narrator paused between each line, but not at the end of the sentence. It would be really good to get someone more familiar with the vocabulary to re-record it.

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dont bother

this reader is painfully hard to listen to. I had to turn it off. It is like listening to a 3rd grader trying to sound out a collegiate text book.

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Worst audible ever

Not even sure that is a human reading it. Seriously. I had to check. Thought it was a robot. So painful!!

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Ignorance nowadays is unacceptable!!!

Very poor and unrealistic analysis. The author should be more objective and realistic in his analysis. Maybe he should visit the Middle East as it is important to know the subject he is writing about. ,

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