FACTORS RESPONDSIBLE FOR THE RISE AND GROWTH OF NATIONALISM IN NIGERIA INTRODUCTION No one‚ not even the most far-sighted‚ ever thought that British rule would last for only sixty years. In the early years of colonial rule‚ the idea of an independent Nigeria within so short a time would have sounded ridiculous. “The Whiteman has come to stay as long as men lived‚” boasted an official in 1919. Nevertheless‚ nationalism started early‚ instigated by the need to respond to conquest and new policies
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Al-Azhar University Brief Description Al-Azhar University also known as Jamiat Al Azhar al Saif‚ meaning the noble Azhar‚ is a center of learning in Cairo‚ Egypt. It was established as an Islamic Institute or a madrasa in 972 and specialized in offering courses pertaining to the field of Arabic Literature and Sunni theology and sharia. It is regarded as the second oldest University both around the world and in Egypt. It was initially established as the Al Azhar mosque. However‚ it slowly developed
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Day of Empire Essay In Day Of Empire‚ Amy Chua throughout the book explains the rises and falls of the most powerful hyper powers‚ large empires being able to maintain large areas while being stable in history. Her thesis of the book states tolerance was the rise and fall of the first empires in history. Where tolerance is the cause and decline of an empire. The empires had tolerance‚ Chua explains in her book that tolerance is the freedom of the people to do as they please and coexist with each
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Africa is the world’s second-biggest and second-most-crowded mainland. At around 30.2 million km2 including adjoining islands‚ it covers six percent of Earth’s aggregate surface zone and 20.4 percent of its aggregate area region. With 1.1 billion individuals starting 2013‚ it represents around 15% of the world’s human populace. Africa’s populace is the most youthful amongst every one of the landmasses; the middle age in 2012 was 19.7‚ when the overall middle age was 30.4. Algeria is Africa’s biggest
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RENASSIANCE 1400 Italy Rebirth Stressed secular subjects in lit and art Italy = center bc connected to roman tradition‚ led in banking and trade Focused on stylistic grace‚ practical ethics and codes of behavior Francesco Petrarch Art- nature and people‚ perspective Classism architecture from Greece and rome Commerce and shipping Iberian penninsula Chapter 7 Outline The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle and Late Abbasid Era i. Abbasid Empire disintegrated between the ninth and
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Armenian Genocide Throughout history‚ instances of religious groups turning to violence or being victimized for their religion have unfortunately occurred. The most prominent instance of this that immediately comes to mind for most is the Holocaust‚ where millions of Jews were killed by the Germans‚ led by Adolf Hitler (Kévorkian 8). Many have not been educated to the fact that there have been many other significant genocides within the last one hundred years based on religious violence‚ one
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Contemporary Sovereignty and Pakistan 1. General. Pakistan because of its turbulent past and it’s mindboggling array of internal and external challenges has confronted all sorts of sovereignty issues in its short existence. A partition that raised many problems; the Kashmir conflict; the search for security through alliances and the antecedent issues of sovereignty‚ the inability to forge strong national institutions that led to separation of East Pakistan; poor internal governance and corruption
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East African states from 600 to 1450. Evaluate the cultural and religious changes and continuities resulting from Islam’s presence in Africa during the period 600-1450. Middle East Compare the social and economic characteristics of the Muslim caliphates and the Mongols in the Middle East from 600 to 1450. Evaluate the political changes and continuities over time in the Middle East from 600 to 1450. Asia Compare and contrast the political systems of two Asian civilizations (either Japan‚ Korea
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Questions: * What was distinctive about the end of Europe’s African and Asian empires as compared to earlier examples of imperial disintegration? * Change: nation-states overthrowing empires who ruled over them for centuries * African revolution focused on nationalism‚ chain reaction that created many nation-states * Africans felt they were equivalent to their formal rulers despite the difference in culture * Revolutions around the world shared aspects of nationalism – Self-determination:
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The Gentle Gender of Al –Andalus Women made important achievements that helped Muslim Spain‚ referred to as Al-Andalus‚ flourish. Some will disagree with my statement‚ however according to my knowledge of this topic; Muslim women of Al- Andalus achieved many effects that other women from different religions have not. They had equal rights‚ just as men did; they had the freedom that people have not admitted they had. They helped society in giving Muslim women a higher level of status. These
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