National History of the Emirates - Diachronic Trends <br />This video highlights chapter 5 of the leading article "Meluhha, Gerrha, and the UAE -- The Search for National Identity of a Young Nation" as per below. The chapter deals with the basic characteristics and trends of the area of the Emirates as a land of seminal importance to the Ancient Mesopotamian world for its natural resources and also for its location. <br /> <br />https://www.academia.edu/23214313/Meluhha_Gerrha_and_the_Emirates_by_Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis <br /> <br />By Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis <br /> <br />The establishment of a nation's historical overview by the indigenous people and not foreign, colonial academia sets the real beginning of the national independence and self-determination. <br /> <br />Main Chapters <br /> <br />I. National History, National Identity and Colonialism <br />II. Orientalism and Hellenism <br />III. UAE Historical Heritage Threatened by Academic Colonialism <br />IV. Neighboring Nations & Cultures -- Key Components of UAE National History <br />V. National History of the Emirates - Diachronic Trends <br />VI. Assyrian - Babylonian Literature about UAE territory: Meluhha <br />VII. Assyrian -- Babylonian 'Meluhha': UAE territory, not Indus Valley <br />VIII. Assyrian -- Babylonian Texts about Meluhha -- Emirates <br />IX. Meluhha -- Emirates, and the Late Use of 'Meluhha' in Assyrian Imperial Annals <br />X. The Aramaean Foundations of UAE History: the Rise of Gerrha (539 BCE -- 642 CE) <br />XI. Gerrha, Achaemenid Iran, and the Interconnectedness between Africa and Asia <br />XII. Gerrha's Prominence in Antiquity - Harbinger of the Present UAE Rise <br />XIII. Gerrha and Alexander the Great <br />XIV. Why Gerrha Cannot Be Located in Al Ehsa Province of Saudi Arabia <br />XV. Macedonian Naval Expeditions around the Peninsula, and Gerrha <br />XVI. Arsacid Parthian Iran, Seleucid Syria, Ptolemaic Egypt, and Gerrha <br />XVII. Agatharchides on Gerrha and the Sabaean (Sheba) Yemenites <br />XVIII. The Romans in Egypt, the Roman Naval Expedition in Yemen, and Gerrha <br />XIX. Strabo's Textual References to Gerrha <br />XX. Gerrha and the Anonymous Author of the Text 'Periplus of the Red Sea' <br />XXI. Pliny the Elder and Gerrha <br />XXII. Ptolemy the Geographer - his Description of Yemen, Oman, and the Emirates <br />XXIII. Sharjah (Sarkoe) aand Umm Quwain (Kawana) Mentioned by Ptolemy the Geographer <br />XXIV. The Correct Location Gerrha in UAE, and Ptolemy the Geographer <br />XXV. Western UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Al Ehsa as per Ptolemy the Geographer <br />XXVI. UAE Islands Mentioned by Ptolemy the Geographer <br />XXVII. The Rise of the Sassanid Empire of Iran, and the End of Gerrha
