A Stately Pleasure-Dome Decree:: Coleridges Critique of
Few ideas are more known than the obtaining of wealth and power, but in Kubla Khan, Coleridge presents the two opposing ideas of materialism and imagination. Coleridges poem is one of the best known from the Romantic era, and it sends a simple message through the intricate use of complex rhym....

Ancient Persian Empire
The earliest known record of the Persians comes from an Assyrian inscription from c. 844 BC that calls them the Parsu (Parsuash, Parsumash) and mentions them in the region of Lake Urmia alongside another group, the Madai (Medes). For the next two centuries, the Persians and Medes were at times tribu....

Essay on Power
Alexander the Great was known to have cut the Gordian Knot with his sword and thus be entitled to rule all of Asia according to the prophecy that surrounded this legendary knot. Unsurprisingly, people take this as an interesting story and admire Alexanders solution to this puzzle, even going as fa....

Establishing World Trade Routes 1100-1500
If there was ever an important period historians, and people could put a finger on, this would be it. This is the important period where the worlds countries, kingdoms, and dynasties established trade routes. This is the period where countries were made and countries were destroyed because of th....

Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan By Stephen Smith When you think of the great world conquerors, who comes to mind? Do you think of Caesar and the Roman Empire? How about Alexander the Great and the Macedonians or Napoleon and the French? You probably neglected to think about Genghis Khan and ....

Genghis Khan
The old world had many great leaders. Alexander the Great, Hannibal and even Julius Caesar met with struggle on their rise to power. Perhaps Genghis Khan was the most significant of all these rulers. To prove that Genghis Khan was the greatest ruler, we must go back to the very beginning of his exis....

Genghis Khan - A Historial Biography
History has blurred the actual time-line in which many historians consider the greatest and most feared conqueror yet known was born onto the earth. The years vary from 1165-1167, but the area into which Genghis Khan was born was one where war and tribal separation plagued the Mongols of the stepp....

Genghis Khan - Brutal Warrior, Enlightened Leader, and Product of his Time
Brutal Warrior, Enlightened Leader, and Product of his Time The popular perception of Genghis Khan is that of a harsh, brutal, unsympathetic warrior and leader who overran his opposition in support of his ambitious and self-serving goals. Yet Khan may also be viewed more sympathetically as someo....

Indian history
Isolated remains of Homo erectus in Hathnora in the Narmada Valley in Central India indicate that India might have been inhabited since at least the Middle Pleistocene era, somewhere between 200,000 to 500,000 years ago.[5][6] The Mesolithic period in the Indian subcontinent covered a timespan of ar....

Mongols vs. British Expansion
From about 1100 to 1800 A.D, neither the Mongols nor the British had purpose for their expansion. But the two went about expanding two separate ways. The British thought their race to be the best and did not believe in unity. The Mongols did believe in unity and rulers such as Genghis Khan sought to....

Similarites and Differences between the Mongols and the Incas
The Mongols were obscure people who lived in the outer reaches of the Gobi Desert. They were a pastoral and tribal people that did not really seem to be of any consequence to neighboring peoples. The Mongols were in fact a group of disunified tribes that would gather regularly during annual migratio....

War and Civil Libertiies
War & Civil Liberties: Two Aspects of modern Society that are a topic of continuous if not obsessive conversations are War and Civil Liberties. They are not only interlinked, but usually have a direct impact on each other. As humans we find the need to try to explain the reasons why both of the....

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