Levant

it’s a group of people using violence in order to gain power, and it’s been a huge global crisis for years. Although there are many terrorist organizations worldwide, we can all agree that the most known today is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, better known as ISIS, and they’ve made it their mission to make their mark on the world. According to CNN, in the past two years ISIS has conducted 143 attacks in 29 countries, killing a total amount of 2,043 people. Eight of those attacks took…

Since the beginning of mankind, religion has become an important aspect of society. Repeatedly, it was religion that influenced the advancement of science, art, literature, and technology. Religion played a role in the building of certain empires. It can be said that religion was, and still is a large factor in the evolution of human nature and society throughout history. However, as time progresses, not only does religion benefit the human population, it also causes conflict and creates rifts…

alone does not stop us from focusing on the security issues other countries may be facing, which dominate the attention of the world. It is not a delicate subject but unfortunately on the face of reality is that their terrorist groups, called the Levant and Middle Eastern groups called the Islamic State of Iraq that engage in extremist and violent acts to promote their causes in order to gain supporters to their ideology. Ironically, these groups are neither a state nor an Islamic one by their…

After exploring the vast expanse of rooms and collections inside the British Museum, the Mycenaean Collection is the collection of artifacts that truly intrigues me. Located in Room 12 and 12b in the British Museum, the Mycenaean Collection provides an amazing insight into the Greek Bronze Age, The Heroic Age, and Greek Mythology legends, especially the epics written by Homer. The collection features many artifacts of red and black painted pottery, bronzes from the Geometric Period, bronze…

In charting the origin of social hierarchies and control systems, many radical theorists take a materialist stance, and attribute authoritarian behavior to surpluses resulting from agricultural production and other aspects of the civilization process. The fact that some non-agricultural, hunter-gatherer societies developed hierarchical social structures offers a critical contradiction to the materialist view, and presents the key to understanding the origin of hierarchy. Anarchists, whether we…

There are many security threats that the world are encountering currently, such as climate change and global health. Some traditional political paradigms still have a re-levant definition of national security to the current security challenges, while some do not. This essay contends that the definition of national security of realism could not remain its relevance to the current security threats, while liberalism still has its relev-ance. To support this thesis statement, this essay proceeds in…

The Mycenaean civilization, the first advanced civilization that arose in the southern and central Greece around 1600 BCE, flourished in the last phase of the Bronze Age. It extended its influence throughout the Peloponnese, across the Aegean on Crete, and the Cycladic islands. The Mycenaean Greeks were influenced by the Minoan civilization. It is likely that they imported Minoan culture, along with goods. The Minoan architecture, art, and religious practices were imported and later adapted to…

stirring in the Middle East. ISIS is a Muslim terrorist faction that aims to establish a caliphate and rule over Islam, using extreme methods and social media. ISIS is a terrorist organization that goes by the names ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), IS (Islamic State), or most commonly, ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). The group resides in the Middle East, more specifically, in Western Iraq and Syria. ISIS’s main goal is to “establish a massive state ruled by strict Islamic…

The war occurred in the period between 2000 BCE and 1800 BCE, which diffused people from the European continent to the Levant region and inner region of the Asian mainland (Frawley, 1). This diffusion is estimated to have started early in the year between the 5th and the 4th millennia BC when the Aryan people spread across the grassland region of the Eastern Europe. However…

Decline of Public Support for Humanitarian Intervention One of the key differences when it comes to Libya and Syria is how western public perception of humanitarian intervention has shifted. In the few short months following NATO intervention in Libya, support for humanitarian intervention in the United States (US) shrunk substantially and in a democratic country taking unpopular moves like promoting another intervention is likely a prominent concern domestically. US President Barack Obama…