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The Han dynasty was China’s first long lasting Dynasties. This dynasty lasted from 206 BCE to 220 CE. The Han Dynasty was built from the remains of the dynasty prior, the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty Is China’s imperial Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty was notorious for having a very harsh government. This led to many people either being killed or leaving. Adventurer Liu Bang took part in a rebellion against the Qin Dynasty. He would later become the emperor of the Han Dynasty and rule from 206 BCE to…

American Exceptionalism in the Twentieth Century In the world today, numerous problems are present because of the arrogance people have towards their country like the United States. Tome’s claims on the aspects of American Exceptionalism perfectly describes why it is the driving force of the United States today. Many Americans are describing their country as the best on the planet. This has been going on for a while and is still effecting the world today. Some say it’s an exceptional thing and…

The First Crusade was the first and most successful of a series of holy wars that defined the Middle Ages. Ostensibly a religious mission to regain the Holy Land, the crusade changed the ways the nobility interacted and opened western Europe to new ideas. While the goal of the First Crusade was to “rescue” Jerusalem, its most lasting effect was the strengthening of the Catholic Church. At the behest of the Pope, Urban II, a large group of French nobles went to try to recapture Jerusalem. The…

Sports have played an active role throughout many generations and provide a healthy escape among many children and adults. Being involved with sports as an athlete or sports fan, have positive physical and mental benefits that translate into a healthier life. Therefore, we should all either participate or watch sports. While the physical benefits are much more obvious then the mental benefits, it takes doctors, neurologists, and athletes themselves, to provide a clear understanding on just how…

Inhumanity: Then and Today What makes a human has been argued upon for unmeasurable amounts of time but there are some points commonly agreed upon. Of course humans are the sole species that have ability of speech (Choi para 10), but humans are the only animals that can express emotion through means such as laughing and crying (Burton para 3-4). Humans also are the only living creatures that can have beliefs and reasoning, which in a way helps explain the subject of the Holocaust. In World War…

In march of 2011, the civil war that is changing millions of Syrian Lives had begun. What initiated with several anti-government protests has now become into a brutal war for democracy. More than 250,000 have died, 1.2 million have fled the country, and more than 6.5 million people are trapped inside war bound Syria (‘’Syria: The story of the conflict’’) . Although many of the refugees have fled to neighboring countries like Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey; the UN has safely relocated many others…

Everyone has heard of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Whether you see her on a debate or on Fox News, you probably have heard a lot about her. On the other hand, not everyday do we hear about her fellow Democrat running, Bernie Sanders. What distinguishes Sanders from all other candidates is that he refuses to accept large campaign contributions from large corporations. This allows him to remain uninfluenced by corporate interests. Other candidates may find it difficult to ignore…

The book of Genesis is the origin, or the beginning in meaning. the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its genre can be explained as antiquarian history(1), and within the book it tells the first appearance of humans, stories of ancestors, heroes, origins of culture, and cities. The book of Genesis author, Moses, authorized, compiled, and edited the book. It is believed that he was provided with the skills to write the book from his Egyptian education and by being…

I will talk about in this paper. The Crusades had people, or volunteers from pedestrians and military troops or bodies of every European nations. During some time armies of 1095-1291 troops of crusader armies attacked SouthEast Asia Minor and The Levant and they fought the Islamic forces and failed badly. Even though 3 million people were killed in the wars. The French Revolution was social and political turmoil or destruction that stayed around for about a decade and it changed human history.…

first two-thirds of the nineteenth century could a close partnership have developed between Orientalists and a protracted, sustained national interest in the Orient. There was nothing in Germany to correspond to the Anglo-French presence in India, the Levant, North Africa. Moreover, the German Orient was almost exclusively a scholarly, or at least a classical, Orient: it was made the subject of lyrics, fantasies, and even novels, but it was never actual, the way Egypt and Syria were actual for…