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which is a secret service which specialized in tackling crimes that were serious. He was involved in many cases where he had to accuse people like the Russian Apartment bombings, which killed over 300 people, the Moscow theater hostage crisis, the Armenian parliament shooting, and there are several more. He made a…

That melting pot of people consisted of Greek, Armenians, Persians, Mede's, Assyrians, and Jews. The Hellenization of the empire was made possible by the establishment of Greek cities throughout the empire. The creation of these now Greek cities and towns was aided by the fact that the Greek mainland was…

The prevailing view of most Americans is that the collapse of the Soviet Union was primarily caused by the pressures of the arms race during the Cold War. After reading Kotkin 's book Armageddon Averted it is clear that the internal changes that were going on inside the Soviet Union were far more influential in the collapse of the Soviet Union than in any external pressures brought on by the Reagan era arms buildup. The internal changes that were going on in the Soviet Union during this time…

In the mid-14th century, a state of physical and mental weariness shot over Europe and the Middle East due to the Black Death. People’s responses to this calamity was influenced by their religion and worldview. The two major religions, Christianity and Islam, dealt with the Black Death in many different ways. As for the Muslims, they viewed the plague as if it was a blessing from God and that prayer was negative. However, Christians believed it was a punishment from God, but God was not the only…

had to change schools because she objected the idea of only being allowed to talk to the boys when she was one of the seven girls at her school. Another obstacle for her to tackle was not speaking the major languages of the nation like Arabic and Armenian. The two also share a strong faith in their religions. For Maria, she was training as a postulant to become a nun. Naomi was…

Gertrude Bell’s discoveries and accomplishments serve as a reason for change in the way that women were seen in history during her time as well as in the future. Her undeniable passion and hard work also served as a way for people to know more about the places that they couldn’t travel too. Her important discoveries are what gave people information about faraway places and led to many changes in the way that people thought about the world. Gertrude Bell was born on July 14, 1868 in Durham. Her…

The Ottoman Empire, also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of southeastern Europe, western Asia and northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman I.After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a…

the Christian world over one thousand years ago, in the year 636 after the disastrous Battle of Yarmouk, which by Al-Baladhuri’s account would be a heavily one-sided battle, “Heraclius gathered large bodies of Greeks, Syrians, Mesopotamians and Armenians numbering about 200,000… The battle they fought at al-Yarmuk ,was of the fiercest and bloodiest kind. Al-Yarmuk [Hieromax] is a river. In this battle 24,000 Moslems took part.” Altho the numbers for the Byzantine forces are believed to be…

the war to help defenseless nations can be easily disproved. Normally, it would not make sense for the United States to show empathy for foreign nations when it ignored the Haitian Revolution, the slave struggle domestically in the U.S., and the Armenian genocide in 1915. So why would the United States now, suddenly care for the mass extermination of Jews or the brutal and relenting invasions of minor countries by Axis war powers. Secondly, take the fact that America believed that World War…

He stressed that few months after he has published his essay, several events has occurred in the world that corresponds with his thesis, to name few, the fighting among Croats, Muslims, and Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, the war between Armenian and Azerbaijan in Karabakh, and the fighting in central Asia between the Russian troops and the Mujahedeen militants. Furthermore, he pointed out that the Civilization thesis does not account for all the significant events that have occurred, there…