Syria: a Broken Land at the Intersection of Power (Cape Books)

One of the Cape of Good Hope Book Series. Starting from the typical research methods of the Annales School, Matthew Rey traced the history of Syria for nearly two hundred years through the analysis of factors such as changes in the geographical environment and the impact of external forces from different regions and directions. This is not only a history of human migration - how villages emerged around cities, how cities rose and developed, and how the boundaries of the nomadic world gradually narrowed, but also a history of the formation of a country. With human migration activities, different human settlements gradually connected into a network. Coupled with the influence of external forces and the waxing and waning of internal forces, Syria eventually became an independent country. However, it is these same influencing factors that have caused Syria to fall into turbulent situations from time to time.