Levant

KABLAM you are in Syria. Your friends and family are in the capital city and have just witnessed a bombing. This group is a threat to national security ,but we need to fight them on our own terms. “When you allow enemies to live and grow within your territory, you have positioned yourself to be killed when you never thought such can be your portion.” We the American people must band together and fight this terrorist group ISIS. ISiS has done things that label it as a terrorist…

The history of Greek Colonization is a long story that traces its roots back as early as 1050 BCE where the first Greeks began to colonize Asia Minor and in the span of 500 years the Greeks will have spread themselves from Levant to Iberia and Crimea to Naucratis respectively. This colonization process would play a hand in many of the Greek conflicts both domestically and abroad as well has having a profound effect on the cultural and civil trajectories of the mother cities of Hellas. The…

streets and in cardboard boxes with little to eat and the same clothes to wear every day. Also, the violence in the world makes me angry. The terrorist attacks on Paris break my heart and make me angry. Organizations like Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant need to be dealt with and neutralized. If I received unlimited amount of resources I would use the resources to demolish ISIS, feed the starving, and give the homeless homes and clothes. This holiday season with time, money, and people I…

and extraordinary leadership. One of the earliest examples of a major warfare “achievement” was when Narmer united Upper and lower Egypt. After that many major Egyptian war feats have been accomplished through history, from marching their army to Levant (modern Israel) to Nubia. The Egyptian army had bronze-tipped spears and shields made of wood and ox-hide. They also had highly trained archers who used bows and arrows. Their shield was also known to be massive stretching to a height of 6…

Religious freedom has often been at the center of many conflicts throughout history. The struggle between the freedom of religion and the beliefs it encompasses, have ignited tragic historical events, such as religious wars and genocides. Although the United Nations, recognizes the importance of the freedom of religious choice for all people, the struggle for these rights continue to exist and these atrocities still happen in the modern world. An excellent example of a religious-based conflict,…

The city of Aleppo is one of the most populated cities in the Levant and the one of the oldest in the world. Now, the effects of war have left the city in rubble. Families, like eight-year-old Huda’s, have had to flee their homes in search for shelter. They settled in a neighborhood west of the city. In her new home, Huda often yearns for the familiarity of her old room. Adjusting to her situation has been hard, as they barely have enough necessities to survive every day. Cuts to their water…

Biological Warfare: The Anthrax Plot Besides terrorism, biological warfare is a serious threat to America. Biological agents used as weapons significantly affect a nation’s economy, social and political standing. Anthrax is one of the most common biological agents used as a weapon by terrorist groups and on the American population. In this paper, I summarize the article “Organizational Versus Individual Attribution: A Case Study of Jemaah Islamiyah and the Anthrax Plot”. Additionally, I…

2350-2100 B.C. This empire was an ancient Semitic empire near the city of Akkad. The Akkadian Empire united all Akkadian speaking Semites and the Sumerian speakers. But by doing this, they would all have to agree that the Akkadian Empire controlled Levant, Mesopotamia, and parts of…

The Persian Empire, orginally know as Elam, throughout the years had a significant impact on the developement of of Mesopotamia. Although not actually located in the Mesopotamian Valley, but instead located on the other side of the mountains that borders Mesopotamia's northern boundries in what is now called Iran. Beginning as nomads in southwestern Iran and eventually evolving into a nation known as Elam, around 2500BC, whose history of development paralleled that of Sumer and Assyria. Over…

ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and is a terrorist organization founded in 1999 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The United Nations has held ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes along with ethnic cleansing on a historic level. To compare these two, They both deal with…