States and territories of India

a Zheng He, a first hand account, who was the leader of the Chinese fleet and would have been in charge of deciding where this voyage goes. Another piece of physical evidence from the Chinese is a map of the world. The map was created in 1763 and states on the map that it is a second hand map from the original made in 1418, 74 years before Columbus made it to the Americas. This map shows both the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere. In order for the map to show the Western Hemisphere,…

200 Jews during the Holocaust in efforts to keep the Nazi party from taking them to concentration camps, than they have heard about a Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara, who broke his country’s laws in order to let more than 6000 Jews avoid territories in Japan that had been occupied by the Nazi party. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust survivors and their descendants remember this forgotten soul and their gratitude for his efforts that protected them and their relatives…

that “life appears only as a means to life.” Living without creativity and only to subsist reduces humans to an animal-like status; they are alienated from the very things that distinguish them as humans” (Dillon, 2010, pg. 54). Workers are in this state of oppression and are not able to fulfill and enjoy their life. For Marx, the division of labor that separates capitalists and workers is a crucial problem in society back then and even in modern time, which can be vividly seen as the industrial…

Constantinople primarily built by Constantine the Great was the capital city of the Byzantine Empire that ultimately fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. To begin with, the downfall of Constantinople substantially impacted the world economically. Moreover, Constantinople’s fall vastly influenced the world through political matters. Furthermore, the fall of Constantinople affected the world culturally and socially. Thus, Constantinople’s fall to the Ottoman Empire had very much influence on the…

Ghandi's campaign for independence went on, with his encouragement of peaceful protest and criticism of British administration and taxes. In 1921, Ghandi called for all Indians to boycott paying taxes on farming tools to the British, a strategy to have a negative effect on the economy. His non-cooperation campaign, despite its nonviolent aims, periodically became violent, and Ghandi was imprisoned in 1922 for instigating the movement. He was released two years later. The movement, however, was…

was a big part of the British and their way of showing power, when they fixed their policies across land as they led the way through the race for overseas colonies. In order to end up as final ruler in 1858, the British began with the taking over of India where the commercial imperialism led to conquest, and of course total rule. In comparison to most of the rest of the world, they had “an abundant labor supply, strong domestic and overseas markets, plentiful capital, a sound banking system,…

creating a high-end artesian wells in the territory of Sub-Saharan Africa. The ministry would be responsible for creating the whole industry specializing in obtaining water. The main projects would be, setting up artesian wells,…

complexified, ending in a fundamental distinction between “land” and “territory.” At an international conference held by LV, agrarian leader Faustino Torrez clearly defined this distinction. “Territory” he said, “expresses the identity of a people, it is where the ancestors lived and where they still reside, it means knowledge and ways of knowing, historical memory.” Organizations across the globe adopted this broadened vision of ancestral territory, and LVC has evolved accordingly. MST has also…

competition, captured Alexandria without difficulty, and invaded Cairo on July 25. Napoleon assessed Egypt as a source of raw materials and grain and France’s major control of Egypt and its trade with Europe could contest Britain’s “overland route to India.” (The French Invasion and Occupation, 1789-1801) The ambitious colonization, however, was shattered by the rebellions of the fearful occupants and the invasion by the combined Ottoman-British forces. Last French troops left Egypt in the end…

accepted by a society within a territory. Horton and Hunt defined culture as “everything which is socially shared and learned by the members of a society”. The five characteristics that define and make up Culture are learned, social, shared, transmitted and accumulative (Farooq, 2011). Understanding a region’s cultural characteristics can assist when traveling to another region to avoid disrespecting the locals. Somalia has a very misunderstood culture due to the state collapse, clan war and…