Kingdom of Jordan making use of its past today

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , how is it making use of its past today

Map of Jordan , The World Fact Book

The modern state of Jordan was only established in 1921 , when Britain having received a mandate to govern in the Middle East , created a semi-autonomous region of Transjordan from Palestine . The area gained its full independence in 1946 and took on the name of Jordan in 1950 making it a relative newcomer on the world stage , the land has of course been there for millennia . The region has never been at the center

of things but was always on the fringes rather than the centre of the various empires , but its strategic position as a trade crossroads meant that Egyptians , Assyrians , Babylonians , Hittites , Greeks , Romans Arabs , Turks and Crusaders have all traded , built citadels , temples and other religious buildings and even fought their wars within the country 's bs , leaving behind a rich mixture of cultural influences form Europe , Asia and Africa

For most of its modern history it has been ruled by one man , King Hussein , who took the throne in 1953 and died in 1999 . How then does the modern kingdom use its past history

Royal Family

The Hashemites , otherwise referred to as the Bani Hashem , the county 's ruling family , claim descent from Ismail , eldest son of Abraham Genesis 16 ,v 11 ) through a chieftain known as Quraysh according to the web page , the Hashemites . Quraysh is said to have arrived in Mecca in the 2nd century...