The Syrian crisis is one of the current crises that captures the most headlines due to the thousands and thousands of refugees who have fled the country. A crisis that is somewhat complex and that we must understand if we go back several years, if not centuries, in the past, so from Superhistory we want you to understand it better with a video that has already gone viral.
The Syrian crisis well told in 10 minutes and 15 maps
In the video that we are going to show you next, carried out by #WHYSYRIA it explains to us in just ten minutes what the Syrian crisis consists of, how it originated and how it led to more than four million people becoming refugees after fleeing the country.
As explained in the video, Syria is rich in oilthat makes it an object of desire for many and it is surprising to see through the different maps that show us how over the centuries it has belonged to empires such as the Persian, the Greek, the Roman and finally the Islamic empire that from of Islam spread throughout the area.
After this, the crusades arise trying to recover the territory lost by Christianity, but the Ottoman Empire that remained there until the First World War, 600 years.
After the World War, Syria appears for the first time as a country and together with other small ones that are located in the same area such as Iraq, Palestine or Jordan. Countries that are actually governed by the two powers that “created” them, France and the United Kingdom.
Syria suffers from various clashes during that time, in which the country also develops its own secular (non-religious) ideology called Baath that mixes Arab ideals with socialism and that governs the country through Hafez al-Assad president for 29 years until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Bashar al-Asad (current president).
In this way we discover what is the origin of the entire Syrian conflict and how, due to the disputes between sides, rebels and external countries, a crisis has been generated that has ultimately affected more than four million people who have had to abandon their houses.