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…the Islamic period, 700-1709 that Afghanistan began to assume its temporary form. The country began to appear during the eighteenth century and emerged at the end of the century as a budding empire spreading west and southward. In Afghanistan around 3000BCE…

…Athanasius: Defending the Doctrine of God Athanasius was born in Alexandria around the year 295. In his youth, he attended the Catechetical School located in Alexandria. Later, in his early twenties, he became a deacon. Athanasius was ordained…

…The Janissaries was an elite corp. in the standing army of the Ottoman Empire from the late 14th century to 1826. Highly respected for their military prowess in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Janissaries became a powerful force to be reckoned…

…major powers. The Eastern Question revolved around the fear that one of the European powers would upset the balance of power by taking advantage of any internal changes made in the domains of the Ottoman Empire. By the early 1850s, however, Czar Nicholas I…

…Nationalism in the Middle East. Describe the roots and origins of modern Arab and Iranian nationalism. How did early nationalist movements in the Middle East differ? How were nationalist movements throughout the Middle East similar and alike? Can…

…The first immigration of Koreans to the North Americas happened in the early 1900¡¯s near the year 1902. They came to America to work on the sugar plantations in Hawaii. Later, the government restricted the limit of immigrants from Korea. During…

…in this region |- China, the Philippines and Thailand. We believe the region |will continue to see healthy growth over the next few years," Robert Anderson, senior vice president of Nokia Mobile Phone Asia-Pacific, said at the company's Asia-Pacific launch of its new…

…all was shared equally. This concept appealed to many people, and during the late 1800's and early 1900's, socialist parties were formed to work towards the goals Karl Marx described. Some of the countries to follow suit were Russia and China…

…, cultivating marijuana is illegal in all but a few countries. Known in Central Asia and China as early as 3000 BC, marijuana was used as a folk medicine. About 1900 it started to be used as a pleasure-inducing drug, and by the 1960s and ‘70s its use was widespread…

…and in the United States mostly in the 20th century. Marijuana was first described in print in a Chinese book of medicine, "Herbal," in the 2nd century B.C., and was used in China as an anesthetic 5,000 years ago. The ancient Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans…