Zhao’s rise to ultimate power was not without struggle. Born to the loyal royal official Wu Shiyue in ~624CE‚ Wu Zhao was privileged enough to learn music‚ writing‚ and other subjects not all women had access to. From her very beginning‚ Wu Zhao was ruthless in her aspirations for power. For example‚ to dispose of Emperor Gaozong’s wife‚ Empress Wang‚ Wu Zhao killed her own daughter by suffocating her and framed Empress Wang for the murder. In 655CE‚ Gaozong promoted Wu Zhao to the position of Empress
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To what extent should Napoleon Bonaparte’s rule in France from 1799 to 1814 be described as “ruthless and dictatorial”? To be Ruthless means to be cruel‚ harsh and oppressive. To be Dictatorial means personal rule‚ autocratic‚ intolerant and tyrannical. Napoleon was both ruthless and dictatorial because he established his highly autocratic‚ intolerant and tyrannical rule in France in complete disregard for revolutionary ideals of democratic participation and representative democracy. Although he
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but the price of that is to give him complete and absolute power. Would you pay that price? The people of Russia did‚ and as soon as Ivan IV came back‚ he killed them by the thousands. Ivan Vasilyevich began as Tsar at the age of 16. He was a great ruler for the first part of his life. He unified‚ and vastly improved his country‚ creating a more modern government. Unfortunately‚ his mental state unraveled as he got older‚ and he was prone to violent fits of rage that would lead to his own people calling
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Robespierre took out the monarchy‚ he wasn’t a better ruler than Louis XVI; instead he became a dictator. Firstly‚ even though he was a villain he was a great man before he got too involved with the revolution. Secondly‚ he was unfair to his fellow Frenchman which resulted to his own downfall. Finally he had no mercy and he considered anyone an enemy whose ideals differ from his own. Maximilein Robespierre was considered as one of the worst rulers throughout history. Although Robespierre was known
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In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare‚ Mark Antony‚ a loyal friend of Caesar’s‚ announces a speech to persuade the Roman citizens to turn against the conspirators who murdered his beloved ruler. Embedded in Mark Antony’s speech‚ Shakespeare uses imagery when describing Caesar’s wounds‚ rhetorical structures like metaphors while describing the blood of Caesar‚ and a mournful tone‚ to emotionally impact the audience. In creating a well-organized speech‚ Mark Antony is easily able to manipulate
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bestowed upon him. Alexander the Great was not a great ruler. Born unto a tyrant father‚ Alexander had the reputation of a cruel ruler who slaughtered people and destroyed cities. The first example of this would be his plight with the Thebans. When Alexander became ruler‚ he had garnered a mass amount of support from his own Greek jurisdiction and the surrounding areas except the city-state of Thebes. They saw him as they saw his father‚ a ruthless tyrant. After a short time‚ they began to revolt. When
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fanatic who deviated from the religious tolerance of his predecessors…he has become a paradigm for religious bigotry‚ fanatically interfering in sacred matters where his predecessors had kept a distance.” – Granger * Wasn’t a pragmatic religious ruler; killed priests‚ took their land‚ melted down the statue of Bel Marduk resulted in the discontinuation of the New Year’s Festival. * Babylonian people resented the reign of Xerxes and did not consider him their king and archaeological evidence
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nature of mankind in his writings The Prince; his beliefs can be seen in today’s society. He believes that mankind is willing to be deceived and that they are more concerned with property rather than relationships. Additionally‚ he believes that a ruler is better to be feared than loved and must be willing to do whatever it takes to maintain control over the people and the country. President Mugabe‚ of Zimbabwe‚ shares similar traits to the prince Machiavelli described in The Prince by doing whatever
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246 to 221 BC. When he was the great ruler of the seven Warring States of China‚ he made a huge impact on how China functioned as a whole. While he ruled‚ Qin Shi Huangdi was able to standardize the system of units and measures used in the country. He also standardized Chinese currency as well as the chinese language Some people would say that he was a powerful ruler and that everything he did helped China while others would say that he was a ruthless ruler and just used violence into unifying
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Examples of IB Exam papers_P2s Yellow: Single party states Green: The Cold War “In order to achieve and retain power a leader of a single-party state needed to be ruthless‚ blind to human suffering and yet charismatic.” To what extent do you agree with this assertion? Account for the rise to power of one of the following: Castro; Mussolini; Nasser‚ Hitler‚ Stalin‚ Mao. How‚ and to what extent‚ did the conferences at Yalta and Potsdam (1945) contribute to the origin of the
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