The Mughal Empire was a royal Muslim imperial power of the Indian subcontinent which began in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It was said to be the first large empire in India since the Gupta Empire. It is approved by many scholars that the Mughal empire was the greatest, richest and most long-lasting Muslim dynasty to rule India. The Mughal emperors, with few exceptions, were among the world's most creative minded rulers, they were famous for the creation and management of one of the...
Coliseum is a masterpiece of the ancient architecture. This building is a manifestation of the advancement of ancient Roman architecture. At the same time, Coliseum was a cultural center attracting people from different parts of Rome and the Mediterranean. In fact, it was a cultural center of the ancient world that made Coliseum important not only from artistic but also cultural point of view. Coliseum was the entertainment center of the Roman Empire. Coliseum was one of the most important ar...
Definitions: Before we start to investigate this research, it becomes imperative to understand the prevailing literal, formal and informal definitions of the terminologies that this study concentrates upon. s 3.1.1 Democracy: The literal definition of Democracy, as according to the Compact Oxford Dictionary, is,"1. a form of government in which the people have a voice in the exercise of power, typically through elected representatives. 2. a state governed in such a way. 3. Control of a gr...
Ancient Egypt was one of the oldest cultures that ever existed. It was around 5000 years ago! This land flourished because of the Nile River. Its annual inundation created fertile lands that supported life. The Ancient Egyptian worshipped many gods like Re, (the sun god) Isis, Seth, and Horus. Ancient Egyptians had a supreme and powerful ruler called the Pharaoh. The pharaohs were considered to be a god of Egypt. The pharaohs ruled the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom. There w...
The history of African-Americans has been marked with both difficult as well as exhilarating moments in the past, as well as crucial figures that helped shape their general philosophy. Wee have leaders like Martin Luther King (civil rights movement), Huey Newton (Black Panther Party), Nat Turner (the slave revolt) (Nash). However, the Harlem Renaissance period marked the beginning of a very vital part of the history of art as well as culture for the black in the United States. Through it, new...
"Revolutionary warfare is never confined within the bounds of military action. Because its purpose is to destroy an existing society and its institutions and to replace them with a completely new structure, any revolutionary war is a unity of which the constituent parts, in varying importance, are military, political, economic, social and psychological." Mao Tse-Tung on 'Guerilla Warfare' INTRODUCTION Left Wing Extremism, popularly known as Naxalism in India has grown from an indigenous peasa...
Customs changed the opinions of the authoritative powers in the Middle ages which led to the arguments between the Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII. This conflict was better known as the Investiture Conflict. In the early Middle Ages and on the King was thought to be anointed by the power and grace of God. This was shown in the actual coronation ceremonies, which took place in the church and used practices of the church. (Miller 5). The Holy Roman Emperor had the control over who took wh...
There were various causes which led to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, most of which stem from the conflicting views regarding Palestine between the Arabs and Jews. This essay will serve to explain the long term causes, and immediate causes and outcomes of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The Arab-Israeli conflict emerged following the end of World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, wherein two separate ethnic groups emerged in Palestine: Arab Palestinians, who traced their ancestry back 3000 yea...
Country in the Middle East, located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bounded to the north by Lebanon, to the northeast by Syria, to the east and southeast by Jordan, to the southwest by Egypt, and to the west by the Mediterranean Sea. Jerusalem is the seat of government and the proclaimed capital, although the latter status has not received wide international recognition.National anthem of Israel Israel is a small country with a relatively diverse topography, consisting of a...
It was October 2 - 7 1918 in the Meuse-Argonne that American Forces of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 308th Infantry, Kilo Company from the 307th Infantry, and sections from a brigade machine-gun battalion, found themselves in a very ominous situation. On October 2, 1918 Major Whittlesey was moving his men forward and had managed to reach his objective by late afternoon. The problem was his advance was "the only forward advance on the entire front of First Army from the Argonne Forest to t...
