From 431 to 404 before Christ Era, Athens and Sparta fought a bloody war, known as the Peloponnesian War. Thucydide, an Athenian thinker and politician, wrote a book in which ...
Introduction In the first part of this brief history, we broadly described the numerous victories of the West. Indeed, at the end of the nineteenth century, the West became the ...
What is the West ? At the middle of the fifteenth century (around 1450), the West was isolated. It was surrounded by a muslim-dominated Mediterranean Sea, Anatolia and Balkan region. ...
Middle East is reputed for citadel of civilizations. It is the cradle from which various self- assertive civilizations like Egyptian, Persian, Mesopotamian, and Ottoman originated and flourished. Competition among Empires ...
Literature indubitably is the reflection of life and its animadversion as well as paints a realistic picture of society and its institutions. Suchlike is the predicament of African novelist Chinua ...
Two Revolutions occurred that fundamentally altered the course of the history of the West. The American Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848. But, while there are some similarities, there are ...
This month of February marks the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution of 1979, which overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty, whose last representative is Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Ayatollah Khomeini then ...
Achievements of Cyrus –The Great: According to the narrator of the documentary (2014), Cyrus –The Great created and maintained an empire not only because of his military strategies but also ...
A teacher once asked her pupils that who proposed the first charter of human rights? The students were baffled by the question and after much debate, no one could reach ...
Use of Longbow in the Hundred Years’ war: In 1346, the English Forces demonstrated the power of longbow in the Battle of Crecy which changed the warfare. Because of the ...