Strengthened Empire c. Unified country under religious ideology d. Countered influence of the Sunni Ottomans e. Shi’a branch led rise of an individual Shi’a empire VI. The High Point a. Conversion to Shi’a Islam: i. Sunni Muslims, Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, & followers of Sufi preachers converted to Shi’ism. ii. Most were pressured into conversion iii.
However, Stalin’s adaptation of the model for economic success was too rigid, and as capitalism moved on, providing luxury goods to consumers such as cars, “the Soviets and Eastern Europeans found themselves in the 1980s with the most advanced industries of the late 19th and early 20th centuries- polluting, wasteful, energy intensive, inflexible-in short with massive rust belts” (Chirot, 1991 p.283). The inflexibility of the economy, and the success of capitalism, pampering the population with luxury goods, and technology, led to rising discontent with the regimes. Keeping out the success of capitalism in Western Europe became increasingly difficult, and there was a growing cynicism about how the communist system was failing to provide wealth and luxury. The inability for communism to
Despite the undoubtable successes of the Treaty of London and Field of Cloth of Gold as clearly described in Source 4 as the “Greatest Triumph” as well as the Successes at the Battle of Spurs and Flodden, the sheer squandering of Henry XII’s Legacy and the limited wealth of England being wasted completely outweighs the successes in Foreign Policy. Overall the embarrassing and naïve Failures outweigh the Successes in English Foreign Policy in the years
Hunter Donahue 1/11/10 Prd.4 During the early Modern Era, many Islamic empires raised to power, for example the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals. These empires rose to power with their strong military and wealthy economy, but lacked a respectable government and an equal social structure, which later lead to the fall off their economies. This shows the gunpowder empires lack of a dependable infrastructure, through its abusive politicians and inequality between social classes. On the other hand, it also shows the gunpowder empires great militaristic strength, as well as the economic support it provides, and without that support it falls apart slowly overtime. The one true strength the gunpowder empires had, was its warfare.
To what extent did the Nazis remain in power due to support from popular policies? The Nazis ruled germany from 1933 to 1939 and were relatively unchallenged. This is a source of debate given that when they came to power although they were the most popular party they had never won the majority of public support in elections and Hitler had twice been beaten by Hindeburg in the Presidential election. Furthermore once in power the Nazi power was limited as Hitler only had 2 other nazis' in the government. The reason behind their remaining in power has been put down to genuine support gained from popular policies introduced by Hitler.
The ancient Egyptians believed that it was important to record and communicate information about the religion and government. Therefore, they invented written scripts that could be use to hold and record this information. The most famous Egyptian script was hieroglyphic, however throughout the three thousand years of history, at least three other scripts were used for different objectives. The scripts were tools for scribes, so that they were able to preserve the beliefs, history, and ideas of ancient Egypt on papyrus scrolls. One of the most unique traits of the Egyptians was their architectural innovation for building pyramids.
When Islam first started to spread over the Arabian Penninsula, the original ideology put forth by Muhammad stayed intact because he was very involved in the initial empire building. However, once he passed away and the empire grew much larger than before, these ideas started to change to fit the regional identities of conquered natives. For example, as Islam spread into India, Anatolia, Spain, and West Africa, the inhabitants kept their original beliefs, but added Muslim elements, such as parts of their language and cultural habits. In sum, Islam went from being adopted wholly by the people it conquered, to eventually only being partially adopted and integrated into other belief
The Abbasid era saw the full integration of new converts, both Arab and Non-Arab into the Islamic community. It is important to keep in mind that the Abbasids gained power not only because of the Shiite Muslims’ support, mainly because of the support by the malawis, too, who were described as second class citizens and since according to general Umayyad policy, new converts were not fairly treated because they were not Arabs. Their appeals for change and equality in Muslim
Is Shari’a Law divine or man made? Islam is not only a religion, but it is a theocracy and a culture. Islam does not separate state and religion, with the exception of Turkey, countries such as Pakistan which have Islam as their state religion use what is known as the Shari’a Law to govern themselves. Watton(1993)”…with Muhammed being both a statesmen and a prophet means that from the beginning Islam was concerned with rules and regulations on how to live”. And therefore Islam becomes not only a religion but an ideology.
Many have tried since then but all have failed, such as the Spanish armada in 1588. As we are surrounded by water a strong navy has always been crucial throughout the ages. At the time of the British Empire we had a navy that was at least twice the size of anybody else’s. We are a small island and we cannot feed our population with what we grow in this country so we relied upon supplies from overseas. We had a stable political system which was a huge advantage, because in other countries they still had monarchy and if one person disagreed with the king the he would be beheaded.