With the World Cup in full swing, Qatar is in the spotlights - However, most of the media coverage seems to have been split between the football itself, and the contraversial decision to award the competition to Qatar. As a result, the history of the small gulf state itself seems to have been neglected - so here is a brief history of Qatar.

This mini-documentary offers a brief overview of the history of Qatar.

Patreon: patreon.com/TheHistories

Maps of Qatar created using vectors from www.freevectormaps.com/

All materials are used under fair use for education and commentary.

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Music:
- Artemis by Scott Buckley (  / artemis-cc-by  )
- Terminus by Scott Buckley (  / terminus-cc-by  )
- Into The Unknown by Scott Buckley (  / into-the-unknown-cc-by  )
- Duduk by Alexi Action (   • Middle East Background by Alexi Actio...  )
- Oriental by Alexi Action (   • Oriental Cinematic Middle East Drone ...  )
- Soul and Mind by E's Jammy Jams (   • (No Copyright Music) Soul and Mind by...  )

Full picture credits can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/the-his...

Intro - 0:00
Prehistory and Antiquity - 0:28
Islam and the Medieval Period - 1:28
The Modern Period - 2:32
Qatar as a British Dependency - 4:40
British Withdrawal and Qatari Independence - 5:30
Qatar in the 20th Century - 6:14
The World Cup - 7:00