Genghis Khan

One such is the poem of “Kubla Khan”, a piece written after he awoke from an opium induced dream. The work describes a wondrous and beautiful land called Xanadu, where the great river Alp stretches through this wild and mysterious land. The title itself refers to the grandson of the vicious war Mongol, Genghis Khan. It is his palace, referred to as a pleasure dome, that is heavily described in the work. The towers of the…

The two millennial old highway known as the Silk Road, stretched from Spain to the Southeastern Asia’s ports . Human intercommunication was essential for the advancement of human history and technology, the Silk Road was the first and an effective human invention bringing a way for the Eastern and Western cultures of Afro-Eurasia to interact, thus not only; spreading religion, reformation of governments, intercommunication between diverse ethnicities for the first time, making advancements in…

The Timelessness of George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language Regardless if the individual reads Newsweek religiously, or educates themselves on even the personal lives of presidential candidates, politics are bound to mislead the viewer. The language used in civics depicts calculated personas that distort all potentially controversial aspects of the speaker. This has been the case throughout the history of not only America, but the world. George Orwell, celebrated British novelist of…

One strategy Genghis Khan used was to besiege castles, cities, and other important cities. The sieges included “surrounding them [cities] with mounted archers... or raining them with arrows” (The Article). Citizens under siege could not escape the Mongols’ wrath. The use…

cultural exchange. I picked this because they conquered many places and they killed a lot of people.The first document that I am using is document 1. In this document it shows a map of all the places that are conquered and the people who conquered it. Genghis Khan was the person who conquered the most square miles, which is 4,860,000 square miles. He was born in 1162 and died in 1227. The second person that conquered the most square miles is Alexander the Great. He was born in 356 and…

Coleridge of hail. Then it calms down and meanders “with a mazy motion”. The river runs for five miles through the woods and then reaches the caverns talked about earlier, and then the river sinks into “a lifeless ocean”. The poem then turns back to Kubla Khan and how the sounds of the river make him think of war. Then the speaker jumps to the shadow the dome displays on the ocean. There is a point made here that the dome is hot or “sunny” and the world outside the dome is cold or “ice”. The…

Written around the attack of September 11, and the effects it had on a Pakistani student, Changez who studied and worked in the United States. Author Mohsin Hamid doesn’t simply tell his tale The Reluctant Fundamentalist, but delivers it in such a matter where you can interpret several meanings from the simplest things. From the names, their conversations and even to the way the book was composed gives this book such an extraordinary style. From the beginning of the book the reader is drawn…

then known in Europe.They moved onward and landed in Cuba. When Columbus heard the native word Cuban, which means 'middle of Cuba,' he mistook it for El Gran Can, which was Marco Polo's title for the Mongol Khan, Columbus sent some of his men through the tropical jungle to look for Genghis Khan or the Emperor of China, neither of them, as you can imagine, they located. Finally, they continued moving, arriving at the island of Hispaniola ,which is modern-day Haiti and the Dominican…

Afghanistan is a country with a deep history. Many famous people have encountered the country including Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world with little to offer agriculturally. This paper describes Afghanistan’s population in spite of the country’s instability due to their physical environment, dysfunctional military, and lack of money. Afghanistan is a country surrounded by land. Its nearest coast line it the Arabian…

dramatically. Items from India, China, and Iran passed easily across the Asian steppes, and these contacts culturally enriched Iran. For example, Iranians developed a new style of painting based on a unique fusion of solid, two-dimensional Mesopotamian painting with the feathery, light brush strokes and other motifs characteristic of China. After Ghazan's nephew, Abu Said, died in 1335, Iran again lapsed into petty dynasties the Salghurid, Muzaffarid, Inju, and Jalayirid, under Mongol…