Stalin’s admiration of the first tsar of the Russian Empire, Ivan the Terrible In the eighteenth century, Catherine the Great stated in one of private letters that Russian people and other nationalities in the Russian Empire needed one strong leader (Alexander 135). The history proved her right: before, during and after Catherine’s the Great reign, the Russian Empire had always had one iron-handed ruler. For example, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great herself were all despots
the Mongols The prairies and the deserts belonging to Central Asia and Inner Asia contributed to the expansion of the Mongol Empire. However other successes in things like human interaction and social success cannot be traced back to a certain environmental factor. Nomadism also contributed to the rise of the empire and it’s expansion, starting one of the greatest empires in history. Nomadism in Central and Inner Asia Steppe nomads can accredit their success to their superb riding skills as hunters
been known as the most brutal and deadliest war Europe had ever experienced. There were millions of deaths, billions of causalities and countless number of houses destroyed, The war not only took away lives and people’s hope, but spontaneously heavily influenced the post war society socially and economically. This essay is to explore and analyse social and economic effects World War One had on Europe and America. After the World War One, Europe and America emphatically experienced a gigantic change
times when African leaders used to secure their looted assets in Europe. It is debated that if colonization never occurred, then African leaders would have never looked at Europe to safeguard their stolen funds, and today the amount of corruption in Africa (mainly Nigeria) would be
1215, Innocent III spoke to a crowd to intrigue men and women to join and fight. He states that he was, “Aspiring with ardent desire to liberate the Holy Land from the hands of the ungodly”, stating that the proclaimed purpose of the Crusades was to recover the city of Jerusalem as well as other Eastern locations of religious pilgrimage from the force of Muslim warriors. This statement provides an accurate representation of the causes of the Fifth Crusade from a Western perspective and effectively provides
translated to many languages including English. Due to the success of the book, Satrapi created an animated movie which was released in 2007. It is a short historical summary of Iran from its first occupation by Indo-Europeans, to the creation of Persian Empire, to the 1979 Islamic revolution in the country. Marjane describes the purpose of the literature is to emphasize that Iran is not a country of terrorism and violence, and to prove the characterizations of Iran by the Western countries are wrong and