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    The United States felt the locus of power and COG for Saddam’s regime was Baghdad. While one could make a argument for Baghdad as an operational COG tied to an objective of removing Hussein from power‚ it was not the strategic COG for OIF. As Elkus states‚ “to often military planners can fixate on finding the COG‚ at the expense of losing the larger

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    society. More specifically each primary source explores the rulers and their positive or negative relationships with their subjects. In Benjamin of Tudela’s Book of Travels the quality of life for Jews under Islamic rule in Baghdad is examined. The Islamic rule and culture in Baghdad had a profound impact on Jewish individuals’ faith. In this primary source we see that Judaism is allowed but in order to participate in everyday affairs one must participate in traditions of the Islamic culture. The Jews

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    religion in the beginning‚ but had no governing organized religion system. Through interaction‚ many Mongols converted to faiths such as Islam and Christianity because they were stationed in areas where those religions were popular‚ such as Persia and Baghdad. There was never any extremely popular faith that the Mongos followed. Although the Sudanic and Mongol empires had different faiths‚ they were both tolerant to other religions. The Sudanic Empire continued to let the African polytheistic religions

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    become so popular that Muslim rulers went to some lengths to meet the needs of travelers passing through their lands. With the approach of the pilgrimage season—the last month of the Islamic lunar calendar—crowds gathered at major trading centers like Baghdad‚ Damascus‚ and Cairo. There they lived in tent cities‚ surviving on food and water provided by government officials‚ until they could join caravans bound for Mecca. Muslim rulers invested considerable sums in the maintenance of roads‚ wells‚ cisterns

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    Mongol campaigns in Northern China‚ Central Asia‚ Eastern Europe and the Middle East caused extensive destruction. * Herat‚ Kiev‚ Baghdad‚ Nishapur‚ Vladimir and Samarkand suffered serious devastation by the Mongol armies. For example‚ there is a noticeable lack of Chinese literature from the Jin Dynasty‚ predating the Mongol conquest‚ and in the Battle of Baghdad libraries‚ books‚ literature‚ and hospitals were burned: some of the books were thrown into the river. The partially Mongol-descended

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    It ignores the international borders and has a presence from Syria’s Mediterranean coast to south of Baghdad. ISIS rules by Sharia Law‚ the custom-based body of law based on the Koran and the religion of Islam. The leader of ISIS is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. There is not much known about him pertaining to where he is from‚ but he earned a doctorate in Islamic studies from a university in Baghdad. Al-Baghdadi was detained for four years in Camp Bucca‚ a U.S. run prison in southern Iraq. He was captured

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    Military Police Brigade‚ 720th Military Police Battalion‚ 401st Military Police Company‚ which I again was part of‚ had orders to deploy with 4th Infantry Division. The Battalions mission was to more through Iraq to Tikrit‚ 200 kilometers north from Baghdad‚ (Saddam’s birth place and home town)‚ and set up operation. Our primary mission was to teach Iraqis police tactics so that they could serve and protect their communities. There is a humanitarian crisis in Iraq from the war. The Bush‚ Blair administration

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    Many things Americans “can’t live without” are derived from an unexpected source. Glasses‚ coffee‚ forms of music‚ hospital‚ surgery‚ math (even though some may wish it didn’t exist)‚ and more come from‚ believe it or not‚ Muslims! The Islamic empire and Muslim religion inside of it achieved great things and expanded to new heights during the post-classical era. Stretching from Spain to India‚ it especially spread during the Umayyad dynasty (661-750 AD) and the Abbasid dynasty (750-1258 AD)‚ which

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    Suleiman the magnificent was born in the year 1494‚ in Trabzon. At the age of seven he went off to gain intellectual knowledge in the field of Military Tactics‚ history‚ theology‚ science and literature. At the age of seventeen he became the appointed governor over Kaffa‚ Sarukhan‚ and Adrianople. After the death of his father he wanted to become the successor of the throne. When he became 26 years of age he became the 10th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1520 and also be called the “kanuni.” He

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    The Mongols were an Empire that existed during the 13th and 14th centuries and at their height were considered the largest contiguous land empire in history. They had many influential effects on the world including that they forever changed the map of the world‚ changed the course of leadership in two religions‚ opened intercontinental trade‚ produced new nations‚ and impacted history indirectly in an innumerable number of other ways. The Mongols were very effectual at what they did and that’s

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