Bahadur Shah Zafar and the fall of his empire Bahadur shah zafar was the last Mughal emperor of india who hold the rule from 1837 to 1857 for a time period of twenty (20) years. As the second child/son of Akabr ll and Lal bai‚ he was not the first choice of his father to rule the throne‚ but due to some circumstances it finally led to his act of rising to the throne after his father’s death. Even as a emperor he did not rule over a large empire‚ his rule barely extended beyond Delhi’s Red Fort
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This did not completely solve the problem‚ because Athenian society had divided into three groups‚ the wealthy aristocrats‚ the middle-class merchants and traders and poor fisherman‚ and the urban poor and landless people. Because these groups were so different from each other‚ it was hindering cooperation on attaining goals for Athens. Cleisthenes was later chosen to reform the system. He then proceeded to break the Athenian people into 10 tribes‚ and these tribes mixed the three groups
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In 480 and the years prior the Athenians and Spartans‚ banned together to defeat the Persian Army. The Spartans stand at Thermopylae‚ allowed the Athenians time to prepare‚ and ultimately allowed the victory. With both of these great city-states located so close together in Hellas‚ there differences would ultimately lead to dissension. Throughout the course of this paper‚ I hope to explain the reasoning behind the dissension between Sparta and Athens‚ made war between these former allies inevitable
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Many empires have come and gone. They rise to great power and then after they fall we can analyze the reasons for the decline of the empires. Yang Lian and Mehmed Pasha both wrote about the decline of their societies. The Ming Empire and society were impacted by invading forces and dealt with rebellion from within its own country as well and the Ottoman Empire encountered financial issues within itself. All of which were reasons and causes for the empire’s declines and falls. The Ming empire was
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The Persian Empire was a vast empire; it stretched from Egypt to Turkey past Mesopotamia to the Indus River. It was located in what is now Iran. Around the fifth century B.C.E. it had become the largest empire on Earth. Although the Persian Empire did well‚ due to some poor emperors decisions‚ it disappeared just as fast as it appeared. There were a lot of nomadic tribes that did not have a police force or law makers. But some tribes would collect different tribes all under one leadership. “The
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Democracy Is Not Capable of Empire There are reasons why many of history’s greatest empires have tended to be either oligarchic or monarchial in nature. In observing the development of two of the ancient world’s most prominent models of representative government‚ the Athenian democracy and the Roman Republic‚ it can be concluded that when coupled with the political‚ economic‚ and social changes that come with expansion‚ the complications inherent with systems with democratic design prove incapable
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The Byzantine Empire‚ sometimes known as the Eastern Roman Empire‚ was the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the eastern half of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul)‚ originally founded as Byzantium. It survived the 5th century fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. During most of its existence‚
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But as we know‚ Athenian democracy came to a bitter end due to incompetent leadership and rampant political corruption. This second experiment into democracy is no different‚ if we do not take care of it‚ if we do not ward of political corruption‚ modern democracy might
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The Ottoman Empire and Habsburg Empire were two well known empires of the 1400’s and 1500’s. The rise of these two once great empires contributed to an important part of this time period in history and is still well talked about about in the modern day history world. There were very many conflicts between these two powerful empires which over time lead to a mass bloodshed war between these empires. In this essay I will analyze these to great powers including comparing and contrasting them. I will
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In book II of the Aeneid‚ Virgil depicts the fall of Troy as Aeneas tells his tale. Aeneas begins his story as the Greeks have constructed a giant horse. This was clearly an indication for the end of the war as there were no sign of the Greeks. However‚ this was a malicious trick by the Greeks as soldiers were in the hollow belly of the horse. At night‚ when the Trojans had fallen asleep‚ the Greek soldiers hidden in the horse came out‚ opened the gates‚ and gave the signal to the main army. Consequently
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