This video shows the history of the Middle East from the rise of the city-states in 2500 BCE to the fall of Egypt to Persia in 525 BCE. This covers such events as the conquests of Sargon of Akkad, Ur-Namu of Ur, and Hamurabi of Babylon, as well as the various Assyrian and Egyptian kingdoms, and other great powers, including the Hittites, Hurrian-Mitanni, and Israel.