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Nomads of the Asian Steppe: The steppe is a vast piece dry grassland- the western one runs from Central Asia to Eastern Europe and the eastern one covers Mongolia. Nomadic people roamed the steppes herding their animals. Clans of nomads often interacted with settle societies through trade; however, sometimes weak settlements were raided by strong nomadic clans. • Pastoralists: pastoralists were nomads who herded domesticated animals and were constantly on the move in search of pasture for their…

“The emergence of participatory cultures will enable deep social changes,” said Howard Rheingold. Participatory culture lends the exchange of diverse perspectives, community involvement, and empowerment through online platforms for social groups. Social media activism—as seen in the Ozgecan Aslan case against gender-based violence in Turkey on Twitter—and YouTube—transitioning from amateur to professional, revenue-targeted content—depict how participatory culture has revolutionized the way new…

The Renaissance is a phenomenon which is considered to be the beginning of the modern age. The literal meaning of the word is “Re-birth”, which is exactly what it was. It was a period of spiritual and cultural awakening for the whole of Middle East. It stretched over three centuries, from the 14th to the 17th. It is thought to have originated in Florence, Italy at the end of the 13th century but quickly spread to the whole of Europe. What started out as a cultural movement soon transformed into…

Overview of the mega-event: “The Olympic Games” The Summer Olympic Games were first held in 1896 in Athens, Greece. At the time, only few competitions were set up and a small number of athletes competed. Until the games of 1948, only one candidate for each Olympic proposed to host. But as the Olympics started to grow rapidly, more countries started to develop an interest in hosting which has led to the creation of the bidding process by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In 2012, the…

The Middle Ages was a time of trouble for the Europeans. The Black Death was one of those problems. The Black death eventually had killed off half of the population. The Black Death had spread through the Middle East and Asia and ended up in Europe.No matter what social class people were from, everyone was affected.The Laws had changed because of the Black Death. The Black Death had eventually had contributed to the decline of feudalism.The Black Death had spread through the Middle East, Asia,…

➢ Task 1 • Introduction Air Arabia is a low-cost airline, which is, based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, with its head office in the Sharjah Freight Center, Sharjah International Airport. Air Arabia is known in the UAE as one of the low-cost airlines. At first the company started operating 28 different destinations around the world, but now it flies to 89 destinations with a fleet size of 35 planes. It was the first low-fare organization in the Middle East started on the 3rd of…

Introduction Emirates Airlines is an international airline carter that introduced itself into the airline industry on 25th October 1985, in that same year it also took its first routes out of Dubai with only two aircrafts, a leased Boeing 737 and an Airbus 300 B4. Ever since its startup, the company’s goal has been kept true of favoring quality over quantity, and over the years since taking those baby steps onto the travel industry, Emirates airline as a company has grew into a globally…

Elegant is the word that most readily springs to mind when thinking of Andrea Pirlo the player. In his autobiography, I Think Therefore I Play, he comes across as rather more quirky and occasionally even oddball than elegant. It’s no surprise to find that he has strong thoughts on how the game should be played and also on some social issues surrounding it. Andrea Pirlo (born 19 May 1979) is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Italian Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national…

“A Gift and a Curse” In every person’s heart, there is a spark of passion that is waiting for to be triggered. If we trigger this spark the way it should be, you sparkle among all those people and passion brings you to success. My passion is violin and when I was in fifth grade, I lost the thread of practice. At the end of the first term of that school year, my grades were worse than before. All of my teachers and my family, asked me why this happened and I didn’t say anything to them because…

out, other states did, such as the Ottoman Empire. He states “In 1904, for example, the Ottoman government dispatched books to fill a Muslim school library in Beijing and also made arrangements to send teachers, leading in 1907 to the dispatch from Istanbul to teach, via Arabic, at the Ottoman-supported Dar al-‘Ulum-e Hamidiyeh in the Chinese capital”. Due to new communication technologies, the use of Arabic saw a rise in China, which gradually replaced…