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Name of of Professor Course 14 November 2012 History and Political Science Essay The Mongol empire existed as far back as the early thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and had the largest land empire in the history of human existence.... Statistics has it that the empire accounted for about 16% of the earth's land mass and over a hundred million in population cutting across several continents.... hellip; The Mongolian empire was created from the amalgamation of the Mongol and the Turkic people under the governance of Genghis Khan....
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The Sunni-Shiite divide is rooted in history and, more specifically, in the crisis of succession within which the umma was enveloped in the immediate aftermath of the Prophet's death.... When the Prophet died in 632, the community was relatively unprepared to deal with the consequences and implications of his demise and it was within an environment of unpreparedness, within the context of a religion which was barely two decades old and embattled that the Muslims were called upon to select a successor to the Prophet.
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On the day of the Prophet's death, 8th June 632CE, the Medinian Muslims, or the Ansar, gathered at Saqifat Bani Sa'ida in Hijaz to discuss both the immediate and the long-term future of the Muslims....
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This time-level first appears relatively late in comparison with the other time-levels, (tayeb , 183)
After offering this optimistic cross-cultural comparison, the narrator notes the ominously silent Mustafa Sa'eed, who "said nothing".... (tayeb , 183) Solid and unproblematic values, the humanistic act of studying another culture's literature, and the virtue of humility, all appear in conjunction with the narrator's experiences in Europe....
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Throughout the passage of time, the rise and the fall of the medieval Chinese empire were associated with each other in such a way that the rise of one empire was embedded in the fall of its preceding one and at the same time, the empire collapsed due to its failure to… Like most other empire builders in the world, culture and religion including other variables played an important and crucial role in the making of the Chinese empire....
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The paper analyses the book Season of Migration to the North by tayeb salih.... He did so by “inflicting pain and suffering on British women” (salih, p.... For Mustafa, every night spent with his wife was like “warring with bow and sword and spear and arrows” (salih, p.... During the trial Mustafa claimed himself to be “a colonizer, the intruder whose fate must be decided” (salih, p....
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Case Study
Without aptitude about the capabilities and plans of others and protecting one's own plans from being ascertained, the state's foreign policy would be ineffective and doomed to failure.... hellip; Increased knowledge about espionage is paramount in the 21st century as new threats appear thus, creates the need for national security....
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Term Paper
The article takes a deeper look at Season of Migration, a novel written by tayeb salih and talks of activities that took place around the colonial and post-colonial periods in Sudan.... Although Season of Migration by tayeb salih was written in novel form and Othello by William Shakespeare was written in play form, the two pieces of literature have a lot of similarities in terms of character representation and the themes discussed....
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There was a lot of competition within between the cities in the empire.... However, the competition of the cities was to some extent beneficial to the empire as it fostered decorative and architectural developments as they strove to outdo rival cities in the “splendor of their public monuments and the variety or their urban facilities”(p122).... Much of the empire's resources were concentrated on development.... The focus of the empire was on transforming the existing cities and fostering growth of cities in the urbanized provinces....
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