You've made it to the last unit... Hurray!
The Middle East is a political term; geographically, it's South West Asia. This unit begins where the course began: the division of the Roman Empire (it won't take long...) We'll talk about how the Ottoman Empire collapsed after WWI, the Armenian Genocide, the Zionist Movement and the creation of Israel, and the conflict and trouble that results.
Project skills: Depending on how much time we have left, we'll do a project on the Middle East and then a final exam on genocide, or combing the final and the last assessment. We won't know until we get there, but the skills will remain the same: Using documents to create an analytic topic, thesis and arguments in a 2 - 3 page paper.