Levant

The persecution of the Christian religion is said to have started all the way back in the first century when Jewish people would supposedly crucify Christians. The main problem with the global issue of the persecution of Christians is that nobody is effectively addressing it. These problems have and are going to continue into the upcoming years if a country does not step up in time. Due to the fact that countries are negligent to the issue of religious persecution, terrorist and extremist…

divided up the region between itself and France with no regard to the Arab people of their cultures. Their method for division was to each gain territory that was of economic interest to them. For example, Britain established colonies in parts of the Levant and the Fertile Crescent so that it could secure oil interest. It then divided this area into Palestine, Transjordan, and what is now Iraq. But in doing this, it grouped Arab peoples who had not gotten along for centuries in the same…

Research Paper – Topic 2: Origins of the Crusading Ideal + Crusades If one were to try and pinpoint a single event or date to mark the origins of the Crusades and the Crusading ideal, the most obvious solution would be to make it November 27, 1095, when Pope Urban II uttered the famous phrase “Deus Vult!” and preached the First Crusade. However, when more closely analyzed, it becomes evident that the origins of this great movement that led thousands of Christians to travel to the Holy Land to…

iron weapons. In addition to this, they had fighting techniques that put them ahead of other places. With their military and financial might, the Neo-Assyrians pushed the boundaries of their land from Mesopotamia outwards to part of Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt. No previous Mesopotamian empires had spanned this large of an area of control. “More than anything else, the Assyrian army excelled at siege warfare, and was probably the first force to carry a separate corps of engineers…Assault was…

User Liberties/Rights Assessment USCENTCOM and ultimately the 160th Signal Brigade is responsible for maintaining communications in a very dynamic and high risk environment. The mission is to maintain our human rights and defend against terrorism. This mission needs to transfer to defending rights on in cyberspace. Policies confronting challenges of preserving core rights and liberties is part of the commitment. Safeguarding these vital rights and fundamental freedoms and privileges is…

Cross-cultural Analysis of Bilinguals Most of the people who I know in the United States are bilingual, and I think that is a result of the diverse, and multicultural nature of the American society. So, it is quite easy to choose someone, and interview him/her for a cross-cultural analysis. I chose Amandine because she has the most inspiring, and eye-opening experience of all of my bilingual friends. After interviewing her, I knew that we shared similar and different linguistic experiences.…

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commonly known as ISIS, has created turmoil throughout the already war torn areas of the Middle East. They have captured multiple towns from central Iraq to the southern border of Turkey. ISIS is a terrorist organization that has carved out land in order to create a new state based on the ideological stance that state and church should be intertwined, also known as a caliphate or “the rank or reign of a caliph,” where the laws of the state are directly…

and individuals have tried to identify and introduce Daesh, but yet there is not a consent about their common name. This group is known by several names including Al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil Iraq wa al-Sham (Daesh) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in English is considered to be the original name of the group. But it is also known as, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Islamic State (IS), The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and even…

power had shifted to the Dutch at this time, removing the Arab monopoly. This caused the power to disperse. Furthermore, the book states, “…and production exceeded so domestic demand that the French began shipping excess coffee from Marseilles to the Levant” (page 149). Once France joined in on the production of coffee, power spread even more throughout Eurasia. Commercial power was distributed amongst a much larger area than it had been initially. A final spread of power can be found in the…

war, state building took the forms of diplomacy and revolutions. The geographical and economic interests of Britain, France, and the other entente powers would determine how states were treated, or rather how directly they would be exploited. In the Levant and Mesopotamia regions, a new state system was brought territories of Israel Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Iran, which was formally the Persian Empire. In fact, in Iran, Reza Khan founded a dynasty that would last through 1979. In Egypt,…