Khazars

Jewish History: The Khazars.” Jewish Virtual Library. N.p.: Gale Group, 2008. N. pag. Print. “Artillery.” The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students. Ed. William Chester Jordan. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996. 47-48. Web. 29 Mar. 2016. The historical setting of the novel is during the early and end of the middle ages due to the constant use of weapons. The evidence used by the author is that the weapons during the middle ages evolved over time from pretty powerful and sometimes inaccurate versus very powerful and accurate from long distances. Also, the author’s word choice was mainly simple enough to direct attention at this point and was easy enough for middle to high school students to understand. His/ her evidence that the weapons/artillery developed over time, is supported by many other…

term ‘Ḥazara’, derived from ‘Ḥazar (حزر), which means ‘wandering’ in Turkish. This would then lead the debate of the Hazara studies into a new historical discourse of whether there is any link between the Hazaras of Afghanistan and the Ḥazar tribe of Turkic origin that established the Khazaria or the Khazara (Ḥazara) Empire between seventh and tenth centuries in mediaeval Eurasia with their capital in Atil. About the Khazar (Ḥazar) Empire, Arthur Koestler states that by adopting Judaism as their…

Dr. Bowman discovered the following DNA breakdown that she possessed: “28 percent from Northern Asian peoples, 22 percent from Northern European ones, 20 percent from Southwest Asian and Mediterranean ones each, seven percent from Southeast Asians, and two percent from Native Americans” (Goble). What are truly important to note from these results in these debates over the claim of the Crimean peninsula is the larger percentages. These percentages show that she, and Crimean Tatars in general, are…

potential anti-Jewish backlash. In addition to the American anti-Semitism, the military also had their stance on the Jews. Commander of the U.S. Third Army, General Robert S. Patton, was particularly racist against the Jews. After visiting displacement camps, he became disgusted at how the Jews were behaving at German hospitals and private homes. The unsanitary conditions and nonappreciation for American’s fight to save them appalled Patton greatly. An article written about Patton explained…

might be used to indicate a boundary. The Jewish Virtual Library describes the Pale. The Pale of Settlement included the territory of present-Day Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belorussia. More than 90% of Russian Jews were forced to live in the poor conditions of the Pale, which made up only 4% of the territory of Russia. Nevertheless, Jewish population grew from 1.6 million in 1820 to 5.6 million in 1910. Even within the Pale, Jews were discriminated against; they paid double…

Byzantines to the Southeast was the presence of internal strife; he lacked legitimacy both inside and outside his borders. While his marriage in 996 AD to Gisela, daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, surely improved relations along the western border and gave Hungary legitimacy within the Holy Roman Empire, he soon faced an internal threat. Just a year later, Koppány, prince of Somogy, led a revolt against Stephen, aiming to take the throne and drive Christian missionaries out of the kingdom,…

knowledge of chemical elements. Ganezah also reveals that some rich Jewish Physicians used these chemical for the fomation of flask, bottles, scales, spoons (Dr Gabriele Ferrario). Magic was very common in those days; it was involved almost in every aspect of daily life. People did magic for various purposes, some to increase their wealth, some to defeat enemy, some to become rich, some to gain love of a lover, some did even for having sex with particular women. Few documents from…