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Most of the economic activity in the Middle East prior to the twentieth century was based on local subsistence and cross-continental trade. The Middle East is a corridor through which goods, ideas, and even populations can pass between Europe, Asia, and Africa. As a result, control of the area has been hotly contested by Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Arabs, Mongols, Turks, and, most recently, European states.

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