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Refugees have existed ever since there has been conflict in the world; both World Wars, displacement of Jews and Palestinians, the India and Pakistan border conflict, and even the aftermath of Japanese imperialism. Although refugees have been a huge issue throughout history, the recent crisis has brought over one million refugees into Europe in just 2015. Today, more than 65 million people are forced out of their home country as a result of persecution, violence or natural disasters. The…

The World Without Us written by Alan Weisman is a non-fiction book that turned out to be a best selling book in 2007. This book was a shocking revelation to me and should raise awareness to other human beings living on earth. Not only does this book expressed the changes that have occur in the past it also mentions the effects we humans have made to nature. How much harm can human beings do to nature? What have they done to repair the damages or if they have even tried to? These questions are to…

Iran’s main religion is Shia Islam, which make up 89% of the population and Sunni Islam with 9%. The predominant ethnic group is Persians, so the official language in Iran is Persian. Iran has other small minorities, consisting of Armenians, Assyrians, Jews, Brahuis and others. Iran can be considered both homogenous and heterogeneous in the sense that most Iranians are of Persian descent, but their ancestry is ethnically and culturally diverse. For example, Persians, Kurds, and other…

Born into German nobility, Princess Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt- Zerbst became the portrait of Russian enlightenment and subsequently immortalized in Russian history as Catherine the Great. Following a coup and the murder of her husband Peter III, Catherine reigned as empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. Her reign was simultaneously supported by the enlightenment era whose ideas began to spread throughout Europe. Supported by philosophes like John Locke, Montesquieu and Voltaire, the…

annihilation of an entire social class by totalitarian regimes whose foundational ideology is Marxism-Leninism” (43). He shows that the Nazi policy of annihilating Jews is the same as the deportation and killing of around one-and-a-half million Armenians by the Turks in 1915, and continuing the connect the ties to the killing of the Polish soldiers at Katyn. Zaslavsky shows that history repeats itself through destruction. They are all desperately important and cannot continue to be shoved under…

during the Han dynasty to the 1450s! That’s a long time! The name “The Silk Road” originated from the big trade in Chinese silk. The main traders, selling their own souvenirs and items were the Chinese, Persians, Somalis, Greeks, Syrians, Romans, Armenians, Indians and Bactrians and from the 5th to the 8th century, the Sogdians. People believe this is how religions such as Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Buddhism, Manichaeism and Islam spread across the trade networks. They also believed that people…

also provided an abundant supply of fish for the Egyptian to employ. The Assyrian Empire’s economic foundation, like the Egyptians, is built upon agriculture. The success of Assyrian agriculture was promoted by the Tigris River and water from the Armenian mountains, which is similar with the Egyptian utilizing the Nile River. Mining and forestry developed in Assyria following the Assyrian expansion.…

During World War Two there were many evils that lurked about, that people to this day, still deny happened. The Holocaust, for example, took place when Hitler took over Germany and mass collected, removed, and exterminated Jewish men, women, and children. Over 6 million Jewish people died during the course of World War Two, people that will never be forgotten. There are many movies that try to depict what exactly happened to the Jewish people during this time, but there is no film more impactive…

The messiah that Israel is still expecting will have some tall orders to fulfill. It seems it will be next to impossible feat, to beat a peaceful person beyond recognition, while at the same time, knocking all of their bones out of joint and not breaking a single one. What a public relations “nightmare” this would pose in modern day Israel. Who will fulfill the written Messianic Prophesies in Israel? Who is it going to be? It seems no one will be able to accomplish this. It seems to be an…

God was the commander of the crusade The medieval Christian tradition had a long path, and a complicated relationship with committing violence’s and warfare. The earlies writings concerning Christians and violence’s is from Augustus of Hippo from the fourth century C.E. that easys the notion of a just war on to humanity. I argue that the first crusade of Pope Urban II was not act out of character of Christianity and it was the currents events that are the cause for the first crusade, and the…