Durrani Empire

memories which I have them from the journey from town to town back in my country. I raised up in the town called Kabul shah in the province of Kandahar in Afghanistan. The Kandahar province is one of the most famous provinces out of 36 in Afghanistan. One of the reasons for being such an important place is because most of the kings or presidents were from this region. The Kandahar province is the birth place of a famous tribe named Pashtun. If we count other Pashtun tribes and Pashtun provinces in the country, they make almost 75 percent of the population in the country. The province of Kandahar has many small and big cities, and most of the residents of the cities are Sunni. This region of the country is very reach in history and most of the empires were dissolved in this region of the country. The income source of local people was from agriculture until recent, but now most of the people found access to the world trade and they started importing goods to the country for business. The city where I was born is also called Kandahar which is the mean city of the Kandahar province. The town where I raised up Kabul Shah is pretty much the same as Fernea described the village of El Nahra in her book. The houses in the town are made of mud and most of them are made by the owner of the house or local constrictors which is called Bana in Pashto. The families’ structure in the town are also the same as it was described in the story by Fernea for the village of El Nahra. Most of the…

Imperialism is defined as “the policy of extending a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by establishing economic and political hegemony over other nations.” As Western European powers continued to extend their empires across the world, the idea of a new imperialism would emerge between the period 1880-1914. The principle of new imperialism involved the extension of Western political and economic dominance in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the late nineteenth and…

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