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Mesopotamia were looking for more land and resource. Since they were going of to take more land, this could be considered exploration. A good example of conquest around 300 B.C.E was Alexander the Great. His army took over a huge part of the middle east and eastern asia (Page 127, Chapter 3). This conquest helped with the uniting of the empire, eventually leading to the rise of the Roman empire. While conquest was a big form of exploring around 500 B.C.E to 500 C.E, after that exploration was…

The Taliban is a faction of Islamic extremists who use their superior firepower and botched beliefs to take over sections of the Middle East. The Taliban take the Koran, their version of the Catholic Bible, very literally. As awful as this is, the Taliban is an extremely successful and overpowering group. According to BBC News, during that time, "They (the Taliban) were in control of over…

20th century European replicas and works of three commissioned designers. "This weird cult movement from America... what is this group?" - jokes John Baker, Mjlk's owner, who is clearly aware who the Shakers are. Born in east coast of Canada, close to the last Shaker village, he came across their aesthetic and stresses how hard it is to avoid. However, he had only realised who they actually were through later Danish furniture, inspired by their work. Searching for images of Shaker's…

Topic: The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Jordan’s Water Resources Gluck, Caroline. "Syrian Refugee Influx Adding to Jordan 's Water Worries."Oxfam Policy and Practice. N.p., 11 Apr. 2013. Web. 18 Sept. 2016. North of Jordan’s urban city areas lies the Mafraq farms which are filled with growing vegetables and olive trees. The farm also acquires one of the largest water producing wells in the Jordanian valley. However, the area is currently facing several water disparities due to the increasing…

What I believe ties all these readings together is the connection between god and power and the Swahili concept of medicine or "Dawa," and the "wound" that the Swahili, Zulu, and Ugandan peoples ' sought to treat with godly medicine. This was especially apparent in the Curing their Ills chapter "The Great Dispensary in the Sky: Missionary Medicine." In all the readings, it is evident that medicine is associated with power, and healing is innately spiritual. It is most evident in the…

Not being able to comprehend the notions of why people within western communities would want to fight for such an extremist cause. The Islamic State terrorist movement has gone from a fight within the Middle East to a much greater scope, with citizens from dozens of countries involved. The Islamic State can be understood in many different conceptualisations including multinational corporation, who trade in oil or an organised crime group, but for the purposes…

she is restricted the way that she has. Hester once viewed as an object of embarrassment and guilt became known as “Able” and “So strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman’s strength”(Hawthorne 150). No longer had Hester represented adultery in her village of Salem, the ultimate sin. Though Hester only achieves her freedom through her sin, Hester was a start to a “heroic” view of women. Hester overcame her obstacles, starting the “ [The Scarlet Letter as a] founding classic of that American heroic…

(AGG)It is no surprise that not everywhere in the middle east is peaceful with countless deaths at the hands of the Taliban who constrain women and men while also bringing down the progressive Islamic society that the Middle East had before. (BS-1)The author uses a real life conflict; how the Taliban take the boys and men and force them to fight in order to drive Najmah. (BS-2)Najmah splits into 2 different people because the of the extreme confinement on women that are also accurate in real…

suffer in their new life. In the religion aspects they don’t have much to write about they traditionally have the life cycle rituals particularly at birth, marriage and death. They have no ritual officers but they call in a holly man from a nearby village to perform their rituals. They also do rituals for agriculture and migration so that they have rain so that their fields have plenty of pasture to support their herds. And the ritual for migration is so that when they travel every…

considered to be one of the most convenient commuting neighborhoods outside of Manhattan. This is due to the fact that the neighborhood is located directly across from the East River of lower Manhattan. It was one of the first neighborhoods outside of Manhattan to be developed and settled. Originally referred to as Brooklyn Village, Brooklyn Heights has been a prominent and relevant area of Brooklyn since 1834. Brooklyn Heights possesses a wide demographic of residents. Due to the extremely…