Wars of Alexander the Great

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    Ancient and Indigenous Religions: Greek Part: In ancient times Greek religion was present in all parts of traditional lives. The religion contained many formal rituals these consisted of animal sacrifices, the religion also developed myths to provide explanation for the creation of humans and they also provide Gods with human appearances to makes them more relatable. The origin of Greek religion has been lost in time, but it thought that dated back to around the Aryan invasions of the 2d…

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    because he made the senate larger, he had good leadership and strategy in the military, which made him able to win a lot of battles. Caesar was a military leader, and he was an amazing one. He won a lot of wars for Rome. He fought in the wars with the soldiers and took control of Rome. He had a great military strategy and leadership, and won the support of his soldiers through that. He also treated many of his defeated enemies generously and appointed some of them to government positions.…

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    Alexander the Great Is Alexander great or not great? I think Alexander is great because he conquered so much land just to be remembered. He was a great leader to his soldiers and he respected them. Alexander never gave up, but he kept on going and he believed in himself. Alexander showed that he is great in the legend of the helmet and in the legend of the hat band. Alexander was respectful to his soldiers. In The legend of the helmet, Alexander’s army found some water, put it in a helmet…

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    over the throne, ruling the Mauryan Empire to its greatest heights for 32 years. Asoka became declared king of the Mauryan Empire in 269 B.C. At first, Asoka followed in Chandragupta’s footsteps, waging war to expand his empire. I praise Asoka’s method of ruling when he soon after realized waging war wasn’t the right thing to do. Asoka felt sorrow over the slaughter of 100,000 soldiers and perished civilians at Kalinga. This resulted with him studying Buddhism and ruling by the Buddha’s…

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    During the fifth century, Greek has direct conflict with the Persian Empire, the struggle known as the Persian Wars (500 – 479 B.C). In 480 B.C, ten years after Darius’s defeat, his successor Xerxes sent a big naval and military force to subdue Greece. After being famously delayed by Spartan troops under the leadership of king Leonidas at the Thermopylae, the Persian army succeeded in capturing and burning Athens, but the Greek fleet lead by Athenians defeated the Persian navy at the battle of…

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    Machu Ricchu Machu icchu a site that was slipped away and forgotten. It was site that was conceived to have been a collection of lands and a sacred religious haven for Inca leaders. In the 16th century the whole civilization was wiped out by the Spanish intruders. For hundreds of years this site remained undiscovered ever since the event occurred no one was able to stumble upon it until one American archaeologist, Hiram Bingham found it unexpectedly on an expedition in 1911. The site was…

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    Civilization was an inevitable turn for humanity, what with our love of organization and categorizing. However, despite the fact that humanity itself has existed for well over 25,000 years, civilizations did not emerge until around 3500 BCE. Before this existed what are known as early agricultural societies, which are quite different from the later-blooming early agricultural civilizations. The civilizations differed from each other as well, whether pre-classical versus classical or certain…

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    writing, and record keeping. Mycenaean Greece controlled the late bronze age kingdom with trade, the arts and the base of King Agamemnon who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy. The Hittites dominated modern day Turkey developed the fearsome horse-drawn war chariots and exploited Anatolia's rich deposits of copper, silver, and iron being the first to develop tools and weapons of iron.…

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    because it forever changed the culture of the Sub-Indian continent and laid a foundation in governing. Another reason why of Asoka’s enlightenment, is in the policies which he made. Like previously mentioned, Asoka had a change of heart after his war. During this, he had sought out a Buddhist monk who instructed him to meditate underneath the Bodhi tree where Buddha had once sat. There he had found new ideas on how to rule his empire in a different way. He began to consult with his people about…

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    A hero is a person who works hard day in and day out and who faces challenges on a regular basis and is able to succeed. This is a good example of Amaru Shakur or better known as Tupac. Tupac was a regular person just like any other people in the world. Tupac live wasn’t easy it was full with challenges and odds against him. Throughout this paper we will read things you may or you may have known. Tupac was not born in a upper class . His mother name was Afeni Shakur, she was a…

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