Russian invasion in 1979 basically destroyed education as many of the teachers fled the country. The curriculum mainly consisted of religious education instead of math, science, literature, etc. 1996 Taliban banned females from going to school Mosque schools were the only schooling options for most 2003 after overthrow of Taliban, 7000 schools were open and…
Source Analysis Primary source: i.e. image of woman attended by a slave, who made this? Be very critical, can we trust it? Is this an ideal image of the men or reality? We don’t have any sources from women, all evidence is for men made by men Oikos: family, just the immediate family living under…
The Han dynasty, a time period that saw China’s epitome of glory, created some of the greatest accomplishments that have substantially impacted both the world of the past and present. It was during the Han dynasty when The Silk Road was first established, providing a portal for the east to come into contact with the…
In the 20th century, many countries worldwide were constantly struggling against each other to achieve and maintain a high reputation. Canada was at a very high position in the world because the success of their soldiers in the many wars they have fought and their peacekeeping operations. Canada attained such a high reputation because of…
Early Life Muslims believe that a child is free from sin and that the child has a natural inclination towards goodness and virtue. The ceremony that is performed after a child is born is called Adhan which is also the call to prayer that is recited from minartes in Muslim countries. The baby is washed…
Muhammad was born about AD 570 in the city of Mecca, an important trading center in western Arabia. He was a member of the Hashim clan of the powerful Quraysh tribe. Because Muhammad’s father, Abd Allah, died before he was born and his mother, Amina, when he was 6 years old, he was placed in…
In the 1930s, all the world was struggling to get by, trapped in the international financial stranglehold now known as the Depression. While most countries were plagued by economic difficulty, none was so affected as Germany. As the defeated party in world war one, the Germans were responsible for the brunt of a war reparations…
The Industrial Revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries produced many innovative thinkers, and industrialists. With their many contributions to the industrial process, these people made Western society, economically, socially and politically speaking, what it is today. However, the means by which this progress was made conflicted with the modern concept of morality. Workers were…
Jerusalem is a sacred city within the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, and its loss to the Muslims has been argued by many historians to be the reason for the initiation and perpetuation of the eight crusades, as Jerusalem is where the Crusades were primarily focussed[1]. However, it is easy to disagree with such…
“If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I got the vote…Women should have a revolution! They should shoot, kill, maim, destroy- until they are given the vote.”[1]. This opinion was expressed by esteemed writer and British icon George Bernard Shaw in 1905-the cusp…
A chartered company was an organization of merchants who were the recipients of a royal charter, granting them the exclusive right to trade as a monopoly in specific areas of the world.[i] The significance of chartered companies was their role in the development of colonization and imperialism.[ii] As the only domestic organization in their specific…
Short-Term Causes of the end of Tsarism (March 1917) Petrograd workers protest food shortages and criticize the Tsarist regime, March 8-10 Petrograd was on of the main cities of the empire The Russian government was very tenuous- whether it would survive at all was point of debate in the years preceding World War One The…
What is Religion? “Viewed from within, religion is a state of mind, a complex of beliefs and feelings about the forces which govern man’s life and situate it in the world.” (E.R.Dodds) The Greeks did not have a simple word for what we call religion; instead they spoke of ta theia, theon therapeia, and eusebeia.…
Charles I made numerous mistakes throughout his reign that led to a civil war within England and ultimately led to his death in January of 1649. As a ruler who believed in the Divine Right of Kings, Charles choose to rule without parliament and introduced new taxes to fund his rather pointless wars with Spain…
Key Players of Congress of Vienna The “Host” Prince Klemens von Metternich (Aus.) Foreign Minister, Charles Maurice de Tallyrand (Fr.) Tsar Alexander I (Rus.) King Frederick William III (Prus.) Foreign Minister, Viscount Castlereagh (Br.) Main Objectives Its job was to undo everything that Napoléon had done: Reduce France to its old boundaries -> frontiers were…
Edmund Burke, an Anglo-Irish political thinker and philosopher was the chief framer of conservatism. His most influential work, Reflections on the Revolution in France, opposed the core values of his contemporary revolutionaries and predicted that the French Revolution would cause anarchy and bring about terror. Reflections, published in 1790, was written in the wake of…
The Second Battle of Ypres Fought outside of Ypres, Belgium in 1915 Germans trying to break west and south through the “Ypres salient”. A bulge jutting into German lines Germans used Chlorine Gas, first use of Poison Gas in war The yellow-green gas killed almost everything in its path, men, horses and birds The chlorine…
Appeasement Means to pacify/soothe In Germany, Hitler began to: Build an army, create an air force Stop reparation payments Reoccupy land that was taken away from Germany Rhineland Rejoin forces with Austria in 1938 – called Anschluss (unification). This was allowed because Britain and France felt bad about the Treaty of Versailles and the state…
Early Conquests: After taking Poland, Germany turned towards Northern Europe. In April, 1940 Hitler attacked Denmark and Norway. It took only two months to take these countries. He then turned towards Holland, Luxembourg and Belgium in May. The Blitzkrieg proved to be too much for these countries as well. The Maginot Line After WWI France…
Why did the Aryans fear their ”inferiors”? In the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution: all creatures change over time, with the strongest surviving: THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. Many applied this theory to humans. The Nazis believed that they were ethnically ARYAN; superior to all other humans due to their greater…
