Caucasus

phases. The proliferation of WMD continues both covertly and openly which is evident with the use of multiple routes which is worrisome because it may indicate that traffickers have detected a possible new demand in the regions of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and proceeding west toward Europe through Turkey (Ouagrham-Gormley). With more countries being more counter proliferation, allows us to prevent an attack from…

Persian flourished as a language of prestige and elitism throughout Europe and Asia for centuries, but its importance began to diminish around the eighteenth century. In 1722, the fall of the Safavid Empire occurred and under the rule of Sultan Husayn, the Persian state suffered long term economic deterioration. It wasn’t until Nadir Shah of the Afsharid dynasty took power that political unity was restored, and for the first last time Persia’s borders were extended. However soon after this…

Natural selection as defined by Charles Darwin has exerted a powerful influence on how we perceive our world. This theory holds that favorable characteristics in a species will persist in populations, while disadvantageous traits will be selected against via the death of unfit individuals from environmental pressures, such as predation, decreased availability of resources like nutrients and shelter, and natural processes such as drought; thus only individuals with the most advantageous traits…

Lacus, and Fontes. Kratos was the personification of power and strength. three of his other siblings - Zelus, Bia, and Nike - were enforcers of Zeus, along with Hephaestus. Kratos managed to capture Prometheus and Imprison him at the top of the Caucasus in order to punish him for his actions against Zeus. Scylla lived in a small channel right next to Charybdis. The channel was very small, so it was impossible to avoid both of them, you either had to deal with Scylla or Charybdis. In the Odyssey…

Prometheus, the designer who was punished for bringing bonfire to male, was chained to Mt. Caucasus, whirl location as a last resort companion an eagle tore far tiara liver, which grew down ever sombre. Prometheus' catastrophe lasted for thousands of age — unconfirmed Hercules killed the eagle and explicate Prometheus. As a rival, Walter, appendage…

School fee’s had been quadrupled by Alexander II , so many people could only manage a basic elementary education. Whilst the nobles continued to send their children into further and higher education. An educated peasantry would represent a threat to Alexander III’s position thus the system was maintained in this fashion. An example of the autocracy exerting it’s power over the populace was ‘Bloody Sunday’, January 1904 in which 96 protesters were shot whilst protesting over the Russian/Japanese…

The Eastern Question is one of the defining aspects of the relationship between what is considered the West (today’s United Kingdom, Germany, France, etc., previously the British Empire, the French Empire, Austria-Hungary, and so on and so forth) and the East (Russia and its sphere of influence in Eastern and Central Europe). The central point of this Eastern Question was contention over the influence and degree of control these opposing powers would have over the slowly dying Ottoman Empire.…

Svetlana Alexievich compiled Secondhand Time by amassing numerous stories about life in the Soviet Union and Russia, which were collected from former Soviet citizens of various backgrounds. The Nobel Prize winning book remarkably portrays the human condition in a way that only real stories of human life can. On the surface, Secondhand Time displays Russian life as pessimistic and death centric, however when one views the book from a deeper level they can see that Russians are driven by love,…

The myth of Prometheus is one of the oldest stories about human creation that you will find. It is about someone caring for humankind so much as to steal from the gods to help make the lives of the people easier and more joyful. It is a story about punishment, the origin of happiness and unhappiness, as well as the origin of man. The story was told to children to teach about life; as it was part of a large religion. It is frequently brought up in scientific presentations on stem cells or organ…

By the end of year 1933, three million children, along with 25% of the population of Ukraine, became deceased (The History Place Staff). Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Stalin mistakenly thought that the people of the Soviet Union wanted to start a revolution against him. Stalin took offence to this and deprived food from his own people. Stalin was a very feared man. If he felt like his people wanted to rebel against him, he sent them to labor camps.…