everywhere in the world but it is usually the minority that faces the harshest criticism. Iran has been known for being a very conservative country especially when it comes to religion but they have been very accepting of Christians but to a certain point. The biggest wave of Christianity Iran has ever experienced was during the Armenian genocide as many helpless Armenian escaped to neighboring countries and many fled to Iran, which at the time was relatively safe, and with open arms accepted them. Even though…
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artistic expression in Iran under the Islamic authorities in power that took over electricity of the u. s. a. As a graphic novel, it rejects the Islamic precept that there have to be no well-known representations of the religion. It criticizes the animal-like violence of the authorities in power and calls into the realness, respect, truth of its rule. The e book demanding situations the realness and recognizes the fact of the authorities in electricity's warfare with Iran as a move to hold control…
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Iran, the largest Shiite country, has been a theocracy since the ouster of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in the Islamic Revolution of 1979. It has been at odds with the United States and the West for much of that time. Over the last few years, the United States has criticized Iran for its suppression of the pro-democracy Green movement in 2009 when a disputed presidential vote set off a bloody crackdown against street protesters; its support for militant groups like Hamas and Hezbollah; and, most…
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Muslim world and to express the support of the United States for liberal and democratic reform in the Middle East. (text: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/politics/04obama.text.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0) Shortly afterwards, a wave of seemingly liberal revolutions began in Tunisia and spread westward to Libya and eastward to Egypt. The “Arab Spring”, believed—correctly or not—by many to have been inspired by Obama’s speech, began with great optimism only to become 4 years later what many are…
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which would be achieved through a proletarian revolution and only possible after a socialist stage develops the productive forces, leading to a superabundance of goods and services. "Pure communism" in the Marxian sense refers to a classless, stateless and oppression-free society where decisions on what to produce and what policies to pursue are made democratically, allowing every member of society to participate in the…
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addition to successful agriculture and river management, such as the creation of irrigation canals, the Sumerians developed a form of writing known as cuneiform. Scribes used this form of writing to set down laws, treaties, and important social and religious customs; soon the use of cuneiform spread over the trade routes to many other parts of the region. Sumerians also developed a twelve-month calendar and math system. They were polytheistic, and they built temples, called ziggurats, which were terraced…
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| |8000 – 600 CE |600 – 1450 CE |1450-1750 CE |1750 – 1914 CE |1914 - Present | |Politics |Dynasties with emperors- mandate of |Japan borrowed from China |Fall of Ming from internal/external -|Abdication of Qing, unification of |Decolonization from Europe Nominally | | |heaven…
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Feel Free to make suggestions!!! just no direct editing so nobody ruins it :\ Chapter 23: World War One: ∙ Franz Ferdinand, Austria- Hungary leader, was killed by a Serbian, and this was the jumping off point of the war ∙ The alliance system was in play and made the war so much larger ∙ If there had been no Alliance System, only Serbia and Austria- Hungary would have been involved in the War ∙ Trench Warfare, new weapons, and the fact that you can kill more people…
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In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere "America" after Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci.[28] The first documentary evidence of the phrase "United States of America" was in an anonymously written essay published in the Virginia Gazette newspaper in Williamsburg, Virginia on April 6, 1776.[29][30] In June 1776, Thomas Jefferson included the phrase "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" in all capitalized…
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History 1302 Notes-9/4/13 Primary Sources-eyewitness account, documents written during the time period. (Diaries, interviews) PAPER: Place and time/Author, Argument, Audience/Purpose/Evaluate/Relate. Secondary Source-analyzes, interprets the event, after the account. (Textbook. Journals) STAMP: Structure/Thesis/Author, Argument, Audience/Motives/Primary Sources. ***Chapter Titles, Topic Sentence 1. Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse. Lincoln…
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