The Persian

that it was more beneficial to allow a conquered region to remain culturally independent than to try to force his own culture upon them (Borbor, 2008). The monoculture rulers in the past experienced turmoil and war from conquered states. To be a Persian nation, Cyrus required only the collection of taxes from that nation. Cyrus the Great is a pioneer of basic human rights. The Cyrus Cylinder, a relic from his rule, reads, “I did not allow any to terrorize the land of Sumer and Akkad. I kept…

Reflection Paper Bedouins are people who live in the desert. Ibn Khaldoun depicts the lives of the Bedouins by mentioning factors that show the nature of these people, which explains how Omar and the Arabs were able to defeat the Persians and the romans. First Ibn Khaldoun talks about the nature of the Bedouin. He says that they live in tribes, and each tribe makes a family. Social organization enable them to interact together to share and get the basic necessities of life. Secondly, Ibn…

Charles Louis de Secondat, better known as Baron of Montesquieu was one of the greatest philosophers of the 18th century. Montesquieu was one of the most influential political philosophers of the enlightenment, who contributed to modern society through his ideas on politics and government. He explained how governments are corrupted and saw dictatorship as a standing danger for any government and argued that it could best be prevented by a system in which different bodies including legislative,…

The movie Crash (2004) takes place in Los Angeles over the course of two days with roughly 10 main characters of different backgrounds whose stories intersect with one another. The movie touches on issues such as race, class and gender and how these issues affect people’s lives and their interactions with one another. As people keep crashing into each other over the course of a thirty-six hour period they are forced to confront their assumptions on race, class, gender and reexamine themselves.…

weak kingdom, but a strong that his father had built. The Macedonian kingdom supplied Alexander with the many skilled soldiers that his father had trained. Without the army from The Macedonian Kingdom, Alexander wouldn't have been able to beat the Persian Empire and expand as far as he did without a lot of help from his allies ( mark). His father also left him the phalanx, a military formation that Alexander used to fight in his many victorious battles ( documentary). A lot of things Alexander…

The Athenian army got the Persians to the see which then was the battle at the Bay of Salamis which is located near Athens. The Greeks won that battle but most of their temples were burned and destroyed. The Greeks have been reconstructing the Parthenon since the late 400’s and are…

This is a decent time when to pull back and take a gander at the time of farming developments (ca. 3500 B.C.E.–ca. 1750 C.E.) The most conspicuous extensive scale incline in this period of mankind 's history was the globalization of development. The primary wave—the First Civilizations— was at that point worldwide in the first place Civilizations ended up being delicate and helpless Mesopotamian city-states were consumed into bigger domains Indus Valley, Central Asian, and Norte Chico human…

Cyrus treated his kingship with the Babylonians as a union on behalf of the chief city god of Babylon who was known as Marduk. Cyrus believed that his position as king was destined by Marduk, and that according to the Cyrus cylinder “[Marduk] searched everywhere and then he took a righteous king, his favourite, by the hand, he called out his name. Cyrus, King of Ansan, he pronounced his name to be king all over the world”. The Cyrus Cylinder also states that Marduk encouraged Cyrus to command…

Greeks and lead the Persians to the path behind the Greeks, the way he looks in the movie is not accurate. He is incredibly deformed and has a hunch back, and he does not have full range of motion with his arms or entire body for that matter. In the movie, Leonidas tells him that he can 't fight because he does not have the full range of motion needed to protect others next to him in battle, so he becomes bitter and betrays the Greeks in hopes of getting rewarded by the Persians. He is promised…

country, bordered by Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It is also bordered by the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea.1 Iran is also within proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, a heavily traveled, narrow passageway that measures 21 miles at its narrowest point, and separates the Gulf of Oman from the Persian Gulf.2 The total land mass is 1,531,595 square kilometers, making it roughly the size of the state of Alaska, and around two and a…