the Kings return to his homeland in Constantinople‚ King Harald wanted to further his power and riches. He then set forward to go to the Holy Land of Jerusalem to conquer more villages throughout Palestine. With King Haralds now known ruthless reputation in battle‚ it was said‚ “wherever he went in Palestine‚ all the towns and castles were surrendered to him” (59). This just shows how King Harold and his army had already worked there way up to such great power. King Harald first gained his political
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Perhaps no event in the course of the middle ages is as iconic yet misunderstood as the Crusades. The image of cross-bearing knights doing battle with exotic Islamic soldiers is one that most westerners are quite familiar with. It is because of this prominence in the imaginations of modernity that the language and sentiment of the Crusades are still evoked. With the advent of the war on terror‚ the Crusades have become increasingly appropriated to cast imperialism as a present-day holy war. George
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What were the mesopotamians’ major contributions to government‚ religion‚ and art and culture? The mesopotamians’ were around the era 1600 B.C. during this time they made many changes and new finds to the world. One major way was in the government form‚ of having leaders. leaders were made out of the elders who had money. It is not different from today around the world the wealthy are who run the countries and who make up our political parties. During the time of the mesopotamians’ the elders
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Jews obviously did not want to stay or go back to their original homes in Germany or did not want to go somewhere they were hated so many Jews migrated. After world war 2 Britain promised Jews all around the world that they will have a homeland in Palestine so many Jews did get someplace to go so millions of Jews migrated to there but not all jews were able to get there. So many Jews did not have anywhere to go some some people even stayed in the concentration camps that they were in from before. After
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1.) Alexander the Great- Alexander the Great played an important role in the intertestamental period. He defeated Darius of Persia and brought Greek rule to the known world. He established seventy cities‚ all modeled after the Greek style. His conquering of the middle east facilitated the Hellenization of Rome‚ and brought the Jews under Grecian dominion‚ to the dismay of many Jews living there at that time. 2.) Antiochus Epiphanes- Replaced High Priest Onias III with Onias’ own brother
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Jewish People by the Christians of Europe. However that idea was crushed when he witnessed the events of the Dreyfus Affair in 1894. He began to reject any thoughts of assimilation and dedicated his life to establishing a Jewish State in the land of Palestine (Hertzberg 201). For Herzl‚ if this future state was to succeed it would need to be a nation like any other. Obviously drawing from his adoration of German power‚ Herzl encouraged the idea of an Israel based upon European principles and culture‚
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20.Pakistan defined itself in terms of religion‚ fell under the control of military leaders‚ andsaw its Bengali-speaking eastern section secede to become the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971. India‚ a secular republic with a 90 percent Hindu population‚inherited a larger share of industrial and educational resources and was able to maintainunity despite its linguistic heterogeneity.30.In Southeast Asia‚ the defeats that the Japanese inflicted on the British‚ French‚ andDutch forces in World
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in Kiev‚ Ukraine. As a young adult‚ she taught in local schools and was consistently active in the Labor Zionist party since she was one of the leaders. In 1928‚ Meir became the secretary for the Working Women’s Council after she moved to Palestine. Later in her life‚ because of severe illnesses that were going on in her family‚ she moved to Tel Aviv. There‚ she began working at Histadruth’s Office of Public Works as the treasurer. Later‚ she became the kibbutz’s representative to the Histadruth
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Europe against the Saracens.”[1] Saracens was the word used to describe a Moslem during the time of the Crusades. The great military expeditions known as the Crusades were Christian nations of Europe who got together to rescue the holy places of Palestine from the hands of the Mohammedans. “They were eight in number‚ the first four being sometimes called the Principal Crusades‚ and the remaining four the Minor Crusades. In addition there was a Children’s Crusade. There were several other expeditions
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news and online‚ it was hard to try and find truth among any sources. After sitting through a semester of class‚ learning both sides of the conflict‚ I could finally understand when I heard about a recent bombing from Israel or a retaliation by the Palestine people. But when it comes to the large debate‚ I can’t find myself to pick a side to stick with. There are so many factors that go into this large debate‚ there isn’t just one side I can always defend. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be summed
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