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Religions in the Persian Empire 660 BC - 583 AD

Persian kings ... [and] became the official religion of the Achaemenid empire and flourished under its successors, the Parthian an...

Western Asia and Eastern Mediterranean Changes

It was inhabited by the Canaanites, a Semitic people, whom the Greeks called Phoenicians because of the purple (phoinikies) dye th...

Oil, Finance and the Political Economy of the Persian Gulf

created a transposition route between these different countries, in addition to this other common factors such at the geological l...

Ancient Kingship in the Sasanid Empire

by C.E. Bosworth, offers a considerable insight into how the ancient Sasanid civilization of Persia (modern day Iran) perceived ki...

Abuses of Human Rights, Imperialism, and Terrorism

took place due to the better opportunities for Muslims in the Ottoman bureaucracy (John, 2004). This may have been the first hist...

Historical Influences Upon the Culture of Iran

In ten pages the cultural development of Iran is examined in a historical overview that includes Western, Islamic, and Persian inf...

U.S. and the Gulf War Syndrome

In six pages this paper examines what is known as the Persian Gulf Syndrome in a discussion of symptoms, epidemiology, and treatme...

Oil and the Economic Diversity in the Persian Gulf

the economic welfare of these countries in the coming century (Mardini, 1996). Oman, only one of the Persian Gulf countries, pr...

Ancient Eastern Civilizations and Peoples' Differences

In three pages the differences between Persians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Akkadians, and Sumerians are examined. Three ...

Overview of the Old Persian Script Writing System

In seven pages this paper discusses how the Old Persian script writing system originated and how it led to the development of othe...

Government and Religion According to Voltaire, Rousseau, Pope, and Montesquieu

this emphasis on "relativity." In comparison, Alexander Pope (1688-1744), the British poet and philosopher described the universe...

Comparing the U.S. and Persia

worlds largest during that era. However, his soldierly applications were not this mans hallmark feature when it came to ruling Pe...

U.S. Naval Operation Earnest Will and Hostile Intent

flag patterned in stars and stripes and printed in the colors red, white and blue. These new flags proclaimed that each tanker ha...

Mesoamerica's Zapotec Culture and Persia's Sasanid Culture

In 7 pages the Mesoamerican Zapotecs are compared with the Persian Sasanids in terms of military policies, cultural and religious ...

How Has The Internet Affected Life

eliminating any bias a person may gain by seeing the disability instead of the person (Cohn, 2000). Computers, fax machines, the ...

Gearing Up for War: Europe 1939

see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...

A Comparison Between the Cold War and the Long War

the two most important worlds were at odds and that is all that seemed to matter. One may compare this to how the world looks to...

War by Luigi Pirandello

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

Athens and the Peloponnesian War

relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

Slave Life in the South before the Civil War

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

The Legitimacy of the War in Iraq

is hard to know exactly what occurred. Still, troops continue to try to effect peace in a nation ravaged by war. II. The War in ...

The Trojan War

It should be noted that the legend of Paris begins with his birth when his sister, Cassandra, a woman of great power and vision, t...

Post-Cold War Policies to Facilitate “One Europe”

be issued an invitation" (Krahmann, Terriff and Webber, 2001). Despite the opposition, the U.S. position won the day (Krahmann, Te...

The Nature of War: The Iliad, Herodotus’ Histories, and Thucydides Peloponnesian War

ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

The War of 1812

France tried to prevent the sale of British goods in French possessions" (Gatewayno 2008). While one may envision that this would ...

Terrorism and Globalization

and Iraq today definitely constitutes a terrorist threat and a major challenge to the war on terrorism. Of course, it should be ...

Germany During World War II

began long before 1939, it began in Germany turning German against German. Hitler, however, offered hope, perhaps even after he be...

The War in Iraq

reason to go to war with the country. Then it was clearly Saddam who was the culprit, although interestingly enough, "Bin Laden an...

Why Do We Fight Wars?

need or desire for war, aside from any economic or resource or religious gain. Human beings, perhaps first and foremost, are soc...