Empire of Trebizond

journals expound on how he traveled on very well constructed roads and that there were warriors or people that would stand on guard to protect you. An example of how the Mongol rule was beneficial to a society is that the Mongols were a very successful empire, they took over quickly, unified China and increased long distance commerce. However, there is one thing they accomplished, it was that they controlled the trade routes. Whenever someone went to trade they would see what you are trading and…

In most of Shakespeare’s history plays, warfare is a mode major characters use to establish their legitimacy and power. More specifically, violence and battles solidifies a King’s leadership qualities and his right to sit on the throne. In Henry V Act IV, Shakespeare gives a voice to Michael Williams, a common soldier that is skeptical about the phenomenon of war and its ties to the devastation common people experience as a result. By hiding his identity, Henry V is able to have an unfiltered…

air forces of the Empire of Japan”. Moreover, the third component of SOAPSTone is the audience. In this speech, the audience is the Congress of the U.S and the people of the United States as well. The Congress is shown as audience as Roosevelt demands them to take action when he says: “I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire”. Roosevelt also…

In Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, the narrator introduces the reader to Marlow, a seaman in the midst of imperialism. In an interesting twist, the novella's outside frame narration changes to Marlow's point of view. Marlow recounts his journey to the outer and central sections of Africa, where he encounters the horrors of colonization and the European established hierarchy. Thus, Marlow focuses on developing his story, but more so on enlightening his audience on the truth of their…

the Declaration of Independence became one of the founding documents of the United States of America. Addressed to King George III, the king of Great Britain it explains the grievances of the American colonies and that they were leaving the British Empire. The preamble of this great document reads, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of…

What is the plot of this story? Use your own words to summarize the plot in one thorough paragraph: The plot of the story is about a prince named Prince Prospero. Prince Prospero was a very rich man. There was a illness spreading rapidly throughout their town killing everyone. The illness was called the red death and was described as fatal and hideous. The Prince thought the only escape from the red death was to lock himself away in his castle with many of his friends. To pass time they drank…

Ghana experienced many hardships on the road to decolonization. Birmingham wrote, “The British decision to initiate a policy of decolonization in Ghana was not intended to unravel the whole British empire, let alone to trigger off independence movements in all the other empires in Africa,” (Birmingham 1996, 20) . Ghana was supposed to be a test run for how African colonies could handle themselves without foreign control. But, the main concern of the European forces was their reliance…

their superiority and to defend the real intentions behind colonizing other countries such as claiming that other countries are incapable of using their resources in order to exploit it for their own benefits. In his book, The Rhetoric of Empire, David Spurr explains the methods used by travel westerners that depict the non-western…

Colonization of Africa The European settlers forcibly seized Africans land, resources and plantation. European created myth of “white man’s burden” is to show themselves as enlightened and as someone who is above common natives whereas Africans as savage, uncivilized and barbarians. But it only reveals one fact that how dehumanizing colonialism was in terms of creating hierarchy by categorizing human being. European imperialist mission to dominate the colonized land was based on…

Throughout war, death, and defeat, millions of words are spoken and the majority are damaging. In the novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the language are gut-wrenching. The protagonists undergo great changes throughout the story. This is shown in Max Vandenburg, a Jewish man who left his mother for safety from Nazis. While in Nazi Germany, he undergoes challenges. During this time, he learns to be thankful. While spending his life in silence and hiding from the world. Hans Hubbermann is a…