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Islam, one of the three major religions at the time, made the most rapid spread during the Post-Classical Age. In Muslim society, cities and other urban areas quickly developed and played important economic, religious, and cultural roles. One of the major roles that muslim cities and urban areas is the cultural role. During the Post-classical Age, Al-Hijari, an Iberian Muslim of Arab origin, boasted that Cordoba became a superior region after the Arab conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. He…

The lives of people in the West of Berlin were completely different to the lives of people in the East of Berlin. After WWII, Germany split up into states each one governed by one of the allies (the USA, France, England and the Soviet Union) all split equally over the country and capital city, Berlin. The Soviet Union decided to make their state into a communist run state, whereas the other three states decided to lead their states as a democracy much like their own. Due to this disagreement in…

Battlefield 4 Battlefield 4 is a first-person shooter (FPS) set in modern day warfare. The game brings a sense of all out warfare and destruction to its players. Released originally on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC Battlefield is known for its realism and addictiveness. Create by a Swedish gaming development company (Dice) and published by EA in 2013. Battlefield 4 was one of the best battlefield games to be released by Dice due to its amazing graphics and overall variety in gameplay. Battlefield has a…

divided into East ad West regions. West Berlin was controlled by the United States, France, and Great Britain. It was under a capitalist government and had its own police, currency, and public…

This is because IS was just a recent evolution of radical terrorism in the Middle East and the factors that led to the founding of IS are not unique and thus most commentary that applied to Al-Qaeda or the Afghan Mujahidin easily fits the IS dialogue. The lack of stable government to ensure Justice, past violations on the part of secularists…

Imagine a city split apart by two superpowers fighting for control of the world. This city becomes a symbol of the split between two very different worlds. That is what the city of Berlin, Germany was during the Cold War, a competition between the Capitalist United States of America and the Communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the Soviet Union. Berlin became a symbol of what the Cold War was doing to the world. Husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, entire families were severed…

Wall finally fell. November 9, 1989, communism and the Soviet Union was struck with a blow that would affect them forever. The wall fell on this chilly evening and the torch of democracy had never shone so bright. All the while West Germans greeted East Germans face to face after almost 30 years of separation. The Berlin Wall was the image of communism for the world (“Berlin Wall” History.com). An image that, much like the government system it was erected under, could never last. And such a…

Berliners were celebrating the fall of the Berlin wall. This was after a period of three decades where the West was kept apart from the East Berliners. The communists’ rulers/leaders in the East Germany authorized the gates along the wall to be opened. Huge amount of individuals had converged at the walls crossing point before the permission was granted. People from the East Germany shouted and cheered while surging towards the wall as those from West met them with jubilations. On this…

The Civil War in Yemen Background: The Yemeni Civil War, in its complexity, is very difficult topic to fully comprehend. However, to gain an understanding how it all began is a slightly less confusing matter. With the Yemeni revolution in 2011, the then President for thirty-three years, Ali Abdullah Saleh and his Shia government were overthrown, instating Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi under a new democratic Sunni government. However, instability shook Yemen once again when Houthi forces performed a…

The Earth is beautiful and precious, but its beauty can mask unaware people of the deep wounds below its surface. Like humans, this planet has its own unique flaws. In this case, the Earth suffers from scars that are continually getting deeper. As the world’s water basins, rivers, creeks and other freshwater sources are depleting by the gallons, it appears that water scarcity is no trivial wound. With its inhabitants’ lives at stake on this beautifully sad world, they need its tears to survive.…