Athenian general‚ whose abilities as a tactician and strategist thwarted the Persian invasion force‚ effectively saving the entire Greek culture from the armies led by Xerxes. Described by ancient writer Thucydides as ‘a man who showed an unmistakable natural genius… and deserves our admiration’‚ Themistocles was the most influential leader of the Athenian war effort against the Persians. It was he who realized that the Persian threat was imminent and catastrophic‚ and it was his radical advancement
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make decisions based at least in part on past experience‚ or‚ more specifically‚ what they believe past experience teaches. During the activities of the Persian Gulf War in 1990 and 1991‚ President George H. W. Bush‚ Sr. and Senator John Kerry used historical analogy to predict the upcoming events and future assessments of the crisis in the Persian Gulf. Using the successful and not so successful lessons learned from the Vietnam War and situations prior to that as background‚ Bush and Kerry apply knowledge
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Jordan Steen Mrs. Wunderl English 3 AP 18 November‚ 2013 Timed Writing: Analysis of Dimmesdale’s Rhetorical Effectiveness in The Scarlet Letter The strategies that Dimmesdale uses while juggling two rhetorical situations are his high standings in the community as a source of credibility and authority‚ his purpose as a minister to help convince the sinner to come forward and reveal the truth‚ and his ability to convey underlying messages to the reader. His effectiveness of communication
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The Persian forces were primarily light and heavy infantry consisting of swordsmen‚ spear men and archers with a measure of lightly armed and armored calvary. The average soldier was very lightly armored in so that they could move rapidly. The Persian army relied heavily on calvary and archers Persian soldiers were career soldiers unlike most Greeks who were citizen soldiers‚ only performing their military duties when war was upon them. The notable exception to this was‚ of course‚
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Analysis of: Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter By J. Nozipo Maraire Dominique Kemp History 1210-01 Professor Adejumobi November 17‚ 2014 The novel‚ Zenzele1‚ is so much more than the telling of a good‚ touching story. Zenzele informs and educates its reader to what it means to be an African. The story is unfolded as a letter from a mother‚ Amai Zenzele‚ to her daughter‚ Zenzele. Reading a mother’s perspective on the many different lessons that Amai attempts and hopes to teach and impart upon her
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Both "The Persians" and "The Histories" contain information regarding the battle of Salamis. "The Persians" is set in the period between the battle of Salamis and the deciding battle of Platea‚ and although a work of fiction‚ it has many valuable and useful bits of information. Firstly‚ it was written earlier than The Histories‚ by someone who had been in the battle itself. Therefore‚ most of the information would be accurate to Aeschylus. However‚ when in the heat of battle‚ no-one knows exactly
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Political Form(s) of Government Political Structures Courts/Laws Leaders/Elites Kingdom/Domain War/Conflict The government of the ancient Mesopotamians was an unusual form. There was a King and nobles who made the law‚ declared war and decided how to honor the gods. Then there was an assembly of the people who could overrule the king and say‚ “this is not a good law‚ get rid of it”. Mesopotamia was made up of city-states. It was one nation as a whole‚ but each city-state had it’s own government
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The Persian Empire‚ founded by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC‚ was the largest empire of the ancient world‚ stretching from the borders of India and China in the east to large parts of Greece and Libya.The empire was divided into provinces called satrapies.They respected the people they conquered.The timeframe is 550-330 b.c..Persian government was a monarchy system in which the kings had the final say so in how things were supposed to be handled. The first king through 559-529 BCE and the
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The persians and the Islamic Caliphates had many things in common but also had many things that were different. The first and biggest continuity was that both had religious tolerance but the Islamic Caliphates put a tax on their religious tolerance. Another big Continuity was they both expanded into huge empires but the Islamic Caliphates focused on expanding through education not conquering. Their downfalls showed that their differences hurt and helped their rise and fall. The first continuity
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In Aeschylus’ tragedies The Persians and Agamemnon‚ the interactions between messengers sent forward by the army and the queens ruling the land in their king’s absence play a vital role in the plot structure of the ’return of the king’. The ’return of the king’ revolves around a chorus‚ anxiously hypothesizing about what could have possibly happened to their king‚ a queen awaiting her son or husband’s return‚ a messenger announcing both the king’s arrival and the outcome of the king’s conquests
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