Expert: Jennifer - 10/10/2007

Question
I dont know much about world history but I wanted to ask you, which country has got a lot of happenings and history material in the world? By my limited knowledge I see very few action (wars etc) happened in USA in ancient time. Most of the things happened very lately so I dont see a lot of things to read when I see american history. But I guess, few countries have a lot of interesting things since old times (War, different kings with diff ideologies etc). I want to know which country looks most interesting when we read history esp ancient histor? (Please let me know if I m very vague here)

Answer
Hi!

Certainly, the history of USA is not as long as places with history dating back to ancient history. One of the most interesting place in the world is the Middle East. With Israel in the middle of other Arabic, Muslim states, it is often a sore thumb in the eyes of the other Muslim states. It is very interesting to look at ancient Babylonian and how Middle East became the confluence of the world's major religions.

The Indus Civilization, Mesopotamian and the Shang Dynasty are among the first civilizations with proper records in the world as well, and you may wish to look into these areas as well.