Levant

their religious practices, the Hebrew Bible does not fully agree on what the people worshipped. Small clay figurines, like the Judean pillar figurines, which possibly depicted the goddess Asherah, were located within houses at several sites across the Levant. One site has an unusual centaur figurine, likely supporting a relationship with Cyprus. Protective amulets with either Egyptian influence or invoking YHWH have been found, indicating the people’s belief…

Under the Black Flag: At the Frontier of the New Jihad by Sami Moubayed was a very educational book that included many specific details and important information. This book covered the topic and ideas of terrorism, ISIS, and al-Qaeda. I chose this book to learn more about the importance of this field, and I expected to understand the background, motives, and reasoning behind ISIS and terrorism. This 240 page nonfiction introduction to ISIS published by I.B.Tauris&Co.Ltd was a very educational…

Michala Wood Islam:Empire of faith This movie Islam:Empire of faith was broke up into several parts. First Islam/Koran then Muslims, Muhammad, buildings. The things they did for us and made up in the past like math,engineering, astronomy, medicine, paper & publishing. Saladin, Mehmet, Suleyman where very important in this movie. What was good about the film was it went into great detail and explained everything out well. Also it had beautiful pictures. We learned that the religious faith…

against ISIS. $1.46 trillion has been spent on Iraq, with the majority of this figure being spent from 2007-2008, in the surge to quash the extremist insurgency groups. While the surge did crush the power of the AQI, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) quickly took its place as soon as the US withdrew from Iraq. It is therefore obvious that exclusively military operations are not the way to effectively combat the problem of violent extremism taking hold in the MENA. The only…

focuses away from the settlement and talks about the trade companies and the competition. Trade of English merchants went as far as trading to the lands of the Levant, lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Besides the East Indies Company, another group of merchants from Venetia dominated the trade of East India goods to England. The Levant Company, an English company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, lasted twenty years. First European country to arrive in Africa were the Portuguese, then the…

As the international fight endures against Islamic extremists who are pursuing a campaign to establish a caliphate in Syria and Iraq, the debate to know how to call the group continues. The world would have to call them the “Islamic State” in respect of the caliphate they have avowed, if it were up to them. The US Governments and the British are using the ISIL acronym, whereas the name ISIS is more frequently seen. In addition to the confusion, the French said they would use the Arabic-derived…

On August 6th, 1945 at 8:09AM an atomic bomb known as “Little Boy” was dropped from a US B-52 Bomber over the city of Hiroshima, Japan at an altitude of 31,000 FT. The bomb detonated after 44 seconds in the air. Instantly, over 80,000 people died as a result from “Little Boy”. This grabbed the attention of the world. The world would be forever changed knowing that now humanity possess the power to killing millions of people in a fraction of a second. This type of weapon is known as a “Weapon of…

Middle East began to wage warThe second problem is that these lines were straight, and did not consider the religious, cultural, or political views of the people groups they were splitting up or putting together with their lines. For example, the Levant should have been broken into sections based on where the majority of Christians, Islams, and Jews resided in. Because these territories were not divided how they should have been, there are internal problems that occur in the regions. Another…

With the exception of the religions Yahwism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism and Atenism that were monotheistic the majority of religions worshipped in the ancient Near East by the Sumerians, Egyptians, Hittities, Hurriasn, Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Greeks, Romans and Arabian Pantheons were polytheistic. Most of these cultures practiced similar purification and cleansing rituals, animal and human sacrifices, sacred prostitution, life after death and divination. Historical records discovered at…

[Last Name] 1 Keegan Mr. Evans Government Isis Isis is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Isis is a militant group, which is led by and composed of Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. They have control over territory occupied by ten million people in Iraq and Syria. It has control over small areas of Libya, Nigeria, and Nangarhar. The group also operates in other parts of the world including South Asia. Isil is posting internet videos of soldiers, civilizations, aid workers, and…