and I will tell you about their sickness and healing rituals. Before 1957 little was known about the Basseri of Iran. We now know about their kinship system‚ their political organization‚ their sickness and healing rituals and much more. II. This is how and where the Basseri live. The Basseri are pastoralist nomads. In the late 1950’s there were an estimated 16‚000 Basseri living in Iran. They speak a dialect of Farsi. Very few Basseri speak anything else but some do speak Turkish or Arabic. (Johnson
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province (Fars province) of Iran. It was formed under Cyrus the Great‚ who took over the empire of the Medes‚ and conquered much of the Middle East‚ including the territories of the Babylonians‚ Assyrians‚ the Phoenicians‚ and the Lydians. Cambyses‚ Son of Cyrus the Great‚ continued his conquests by conquering Egypt. The Achaemenid Persian Empire was ended during the Wars of Alexander the Great‚ but Persian Empire arose again under the Parthian and Sassanid Empires of Iran‚ followed by Iranian post-islimic
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ethnic group in the Middle East which numbers approximately twenty-five million. These people are spread out over a quasi state sometimes called Kurdistan (“Land of the Kurds”) which geographically is spread out four countries; Turkey‚ Syria‚ Iraq‚ and Iran that encompasses an area about the size of France (Refugees‚ 2005). There are also small groups located in Georgia‚ Kazakhstan‚ Azerbaijan‚ Western Europe‚ and Lebanon (Kurds‚ 2005). Due to economic and ethnic and other disparages Kurdish people continue
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great geostrategic importance‚ bordered by Iran on the west‚ Afghanistan on the northwest‚ China on the northeast‚ India on the east‚ and the Arabian Sea on the south. The total land area is estimated at 803‚940 square kilometers. The boundary with Iran‚ some 800 kilometers in length‚ was first delimited by a British commission in 1893‚ separating Iran from what was then British Indian Balochistan. In 1957 Pakistan signed a frontier agreement with Iran‚ and since then the border between the two
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the name‚ however Iran as is spelled in English language does not represent what the name was originally changed to mean. The reason given to change the ancient name Persia to the modern Iran is because it has come in the history that at the beginning of the second millennium BCE the ancestors of the Aryan settled in the land today called Iran. The Aryans were a broad population including the Medes and Persians. Tribes each occupied a different part of Iran. Thus‚ the name Iran is to signify and
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Joshua: 6th book of the bible. Joshua sets up the land to be governed by 12 tribes ruled over by judges to equal each other but not fully united. Period of Monarchy David ruled (c. 1000 – 960 B.C.E). He was the 2nd king of kings‚ represents Golden Age of Israel. Was an empire‚ Solomon. David brings tribes together under one king = Called Israel. Golden Age of Jews = David’s era. Saul = 1st king – C. 1036 B.C.E from tribe of Benjamin David’s son = Solomon ruled (960 – 21 B.C.E) + builds First
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Final Exam Study Guide: -Starting from the end of WWI discuss the development in the parts of the Ottoman Empire that today make up Turkey. This questions requires you to discuss the allied occupation‚ the Sultan’s decisions‚ the resistance‚ the resistance‚ rise of Mustafa Kemal‚ the grand national assembly…. All the way through to the treaty of Lausanne. After the End of World War I‚ the former Ottoman Empire was occupied by Allied forces who occupied the entire area of modern day Turkey. The
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was born in modern-day Uzbekistan in 1336. He was born into the clan Barlas‚ of which his father was the head of. He grew up in an area an region which had no central government‚ and was basically a confederation of loosely-knit Turco-Mongolian tribes‚ known as the Ulus Chaghatay‚ which was the product of the Ghenghis Khan Empire a few generations before. Timur never learned to read or write‚ but despite his illiteracy‚ historical records show him to be very intelligent with a strong intellectual
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of Persia. Unlike the Safavid the ottomans preferred a system of provincial rule by chieftains and warlords under regional governors appointed by the Sultan.13 Thus‚ When the inevitable decline of the Ottomans came‚ provincial warlords and nomadic tribes saw themselves in the prime position to emerge as powerful leaders. In Mosul the Jalili family succeeded in seizing power while Baghdad and Basra were under the control of Arab chieftains14. However‚ as peasant revolts sprang up across the region
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the Sharia law. They are however not a unified movement and encompass different groups with different political agendas and interpretation of the religion. Mohammad Mossadeq: Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. Led the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry and rejected neocolonial domination of Iran in the 1950s. Theoder Herzel: One of the founding fathers of Zionism. His book The Jewish State‚ published in 1896‚ is considered to have launched the modern Zionist movement. Herzel also established
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