Achaemenid Empire

scholars as one of the first genocides of the modern era. The events that unfolded in the Ottoman Empire during World War I killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians. These events were an extension of a persecution that extended from the 1500s and was an accumulation of massacres that started in the 1890s.The deaths also extended to the mass killings of Assyrians and Greeks whom resided in the Ottoman Empire. Despite these atrocities, the Ottoman Empire’s successor state of Turkey’s denial of…

The Great Fire of Rome was a devastating urban blaze that began on the 19th of July in 64AD, consuming over half the city and was not contained until six days later. The controversy surrounding this infamous event stems from historical claims that the fire was initiated at the command of Emperor Nero, who “fiddled” while his great city burned. Some contradictory sources such as Tacitus, however, have reasoned that Nero did not torch Rome, a judgement which is shared by several significant modern…

Multiple plays by Julius Caesar feature a tragic hero, and in Julius Caesar that tragic hero is Brutus. Aristotle wrote that a tragic hero is a person of nobility who suffers misfortune or defeat due to a flaw or weakness in their personality. From the play there is obvious evidence that Brutus suffers misfortune due to the death of Caesar. Said act was commuted because Brutus is extremely naive. More than once the story conveys Brutus as someone who believes people without question. He is also…

Declaration of Independence relates to John Locke’s idea of liberty because the Declaration of Independence is a written set of rights and personal liberties for all American citizens. That Americans no longer had to live under the control of the British empire. Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” and the Declaration of Independence both had such a great appeal to the people of America of all social classes because it didn 't matter if they were rich, poor, a farmer, a merchant, etc. as long as they…

The life in Ancient Roman Empire is always haunted by themes of poverty and starvation. For ordinary people, it is already grudging to care about themselves and their familiar under a society with high mortality. Since it is a predatory world, it is real incredible that Christians…

In Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, the characters face numerous problems that they deal with in their own individual manners. Julius Caesar is well aware of his public image and he lets this influence his choices. Brutus is very aware of the power his decisions posses and therefore is very prudent. In contrast, the general public does not posses their own opinions making it nearly effortless to persuade them. Julius Caesar becomes so concerned with how he is seen by others…

Many of the propaganda posters of World War One have symbolism to persuade the viewers to be a participant in the war. One of the propaganda posters made in Germany has a snake with eight arrows and the number eight, entangling the snake. We can presume that the snake is the Alliances and the eight symbolizes the war bond that the Germans were merchandising at that time. You can see that the arrows are piercing the serpent, which symbolizes that the money that is put in the war bond will support…

movement, the Italian Renaissance, which 'made the language and art of the ancient past the model for the present”, Leonard de Vinci 's work, composed of paintings as much as scientifical sketches, the Ottoman Court that aimed at reviving the Byzantine Empire 's art and the interiority depicted in both litterature, through personal stories like Saint Catherine of Siena 's visions, and German paintings, there was a huge variety of cultural and artistic expressions.10 Finally, the late Middle…

century, the Roman Empire saw many different changes to how its government functioned. As Christianity grew and steadily became interwoven into the empire, it influenced these changes. The imperial bureaucracy, the army, the emperor, and the concept of the empire all were shaped by the Christian religion. Christian doctrine helped to legitimize these different organizations and people while creating a firm foothold for itself within the empire. The expansiveness of the empire by the…

Ill-fated by the Khodynka Tragedy, the reign of the last Tsar was plagued with public discontent from his inauguration. Nicholas’ fear that he was “not prepared to be Tsar” caused him to cling to the outdated social and economic rhetoric of his father, Tsar Alexander III, despite the rapidly changing and evolving state of Russia. By 1905, many of the classes, particularly the peasants, urban workers and the reformist middle class were angered and politicized by Nicholas’ reactionary policies.…