By 272 BC almost all the south of Italy was in Roman hands. Rome then came into conflict with Carthage. The Phoenicians from Lebanon founded a colony in North Africa, which they called Carthage. In time Carthage became very powerful, ruling North Africa, Sardinia, Corsica and part of Spain. The wars between Rome and Carthage are called the Punic wars.
Evaluation of the Changes in Roman Society Due to Punic Wars. The Punic wars were the important events in the western civilization as they were the taking place simultaneously with the development of Rome empire. The invasion of Italy left Rome with the major rival in the Carthage. Carthage is located on the peninsula in the Gulf of Tunis, and it is linked by two canals as it has two harbors. In all, there occurred three different Punic wars at different times.
How did the romans succeed in conquering Italy? The Roman's conquest of all of Italy was not easy (to say the least). The Roman's conquest took hundreds of years as well as one major setback when it was burned to the ground. * Beginning of Roman Conquest-The Roman's conquest of Italy began in 509 BC after they expelled the aristocratic Tarquins family. The Romans next set their sights on the Etruscans and quickly drove them out of the Italian peninsula.
From the High Middle Ages until the Italian unification in 1861, Molise was part of the Kingdom of Naples, with power being split between Bourbon and Spanish overlords. In 1963, the province of Molise became an official Region of Italy with the cities of Campobasso and Isernia acting as capitals for the two small provinces of Molise. Molise lies in central-southern Italy on the Adriatic coastline of the peninsula. Only its south-western section belongs to the Tyrrhenian coastline. As regards area and population molise has 319,834 people and 1,714 sq mi of land.
(Robson, 1992)” However, reviewing the economical, social and political issues this was not to be. After the Unification of Italy in 1870, despite some modernisation occurring, the country still fell behind the other major powers of Europe. The state of the Italian economy was a major problem facing the new Kingdom. It was in huge debt that it had inherited from the states that had been unified to make Italy. The Liberal’s did nothing to make it look like they would attempt to transform the economy, which remained backward and unprepared for World War 1.
• Over 60,000 citizens moved apart from their countries. • Destroyed harvests • A great number of mined zones • Monumental military expenses Current Situation Ethiopia has maintained its independence throughout its monarchy; it was established as a socialist state in 1974, and it remained as a regime until 1991 when a coalition of rebels finally destroyed it. It now has a constitution and public, multiparty elections. Italy, the former colonial ruler of Eritrea, disbanded it in 1952. In 1991, Ethiopia fought for their independence until 1991, year in which its rebel forces defeated Ethiopian military.
“Integration of Theory and Practice” Case Study Presentation -Violence between Muslims and Christians in Guinea- The current West African country called Guinea is the home of diverse socio-cultural and political history of the region. It was successively an important part of the great empires of Ghana, Mali, Sosso, Songhai, Gao, Wassolon, and the theocratic kingdoms of Fouta Diallon before the French invasion in the late nineteenth century. Guinea is historically known to be the last West African territory to surrender under the European colonial army, and the first to recover its independence among the French African colonies in 1958. And as many other coastal counties, Guinea was the departure point for innumerable men and women for the new world (Americas) during the Atlantic slave trade. At the time when Islam was massively being practiced in the northern part of the country since the eleventh century, Christianity was reshaping the socio-cultural life of the indigenous people along the coast with the slave trade in fifteenth century.
[dn 2] With Constantinople as its capital and control of vast lands around the Mediterranean basin, the empire was at the centre of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for over six centuries. It was dissolved in the aftermath of World War I, and replaced by various states. Upon the demise of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, precursor of Ottomans, in 1300s, Anatolia was divided into a patchwork of independent states, the so-called Ghazi emirates. One of the Ghazi emirates was led by Osman I (1258[12] – 1326), from which the name Ottoman is derived. Osman I extended the frontiers of Turkish settlement toward the edge of the Byzantine Empire.
Hindu and Muslim conflict is basically cause by the Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent. Around 630 A.D, Islam was introduced to India through Arab traders. They are peaceful until the 8th century when a Syrian general named Muhammad bin Qasim desiring control of trade routes to India invaded. Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place from the 12th to the 16th centuries, though earlier Muslim conquests made limited inroads into modern Afghanistan and Pakistan as early as the time of the Rajput kingdoms in the 8th century. With the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate, Islam spread across large parts of the subcontinent.
The earliest kingdom to rise to power in Ethiopia was the Sabean influenced D'mt in the 10th century BC, which established its capital in Yeha. In the first century AD the Aksumite Kingdom rose to power in Tigray Region with its capital at Aksum and grew into a major power on the Red Sea, subjugating Yemen and Meroe and converting to Christianity in the early fourth century. The Aksumite empire fell into decline with the rise of Islam, forcing the Ethiopians to move south into the highlands for refuge. The Aksumites gave way to the Zagwe Dynasty who established a new capital at Lalibela, before giving way to the Solomonic Dynasty in the 13th century. During the early Solomonic period Ethiopia went through military reforms and imperial expansion that made it dominate the Horn of Africa.