Afghanistan has long been a land where conquering armies have the most difficult operations. The terrain and the weather are unforgivable‚ with snowcapped mountain ranges as high as 24‚000 feet‚ and an indigenous population who have been fighting for hundreds if not thousands of years. Afghanistan’s location is definitely not an ideal operational theater for a democratic republic like the United States‚ with rouge‚ failed‚ and transitioning states surrounding the landlocked country. These conditions
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KEY POINTS: Chapter 20 Timeline 1453 – fall of Constantinople to Ottomans 1510 – Safavid conquest of Persia completed 1514 – Ottoman victory at battle of Chaldiran 1526 – Babur’s conquest of India 1701 – death of Aurangzeb‚ Mughal decline begins 1736 – Nadir Shah proclaimed sultan of Persia Terms‚ People‚ Events Ottomans – Turkic people who advanced from strongholds in Asia Minor during 1350s; conquered large part of Balkans‚ unified under Mehmed I; captured Constantinople in
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Crystal Castaneda AP World History Period 3 April 6‚ 2011 Safavid and Mughal Mughal and Safavid were a few of the strongest empires in their time. These empires shared many similarities‚ but one major similarity is their political structures. The Safavid and Mughal both had a centralized government‚ based on military conquest‚ and were both Muslim based empires. But like many things these two empires do have differences‚ they were both in different regions‚ overall population was different
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By: Qiao Yu Compare the information provided by newspapers to the information covered by broadcast newscasts Topic: Afghan President consider own talks with Taliban Newspaper (New York Times) Broadcasting (BBC) In this essay I will compare a single day’s news coverage from a newspaper and television on the same news topic. Differences Timing: Firstly‚ the two medium operate on totally different time. The newspaper‚ distributed in the wee hours of the morning contains the latest or
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How does Hosseini tell the story in chapter 17? Chapter 17 is potentially the most important chapter in the novel for structuring the shape of the narrative and may be seen as the turning point in the novel. During this chapter‚ Amir is handed a letter by Hassan writing about his son Sohrab and how life in Kabul has changed dramatically since he and Baba fled to America. Rahim Khan explains how Hassan and Farzana were killed by the Taliban and as his dying wish‚ Amir must go and rescue Sohrab. It
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The Indus and Aryan Civilizations The Indus civilization‚ an ancient civilization in South Asia‚ existed from about 2700 to 1750 BC. It is sometimes referred to as the Harappa civilization; one of its major centers. It stretched from north of the Hindu Kush down the entire length of the Indus and beyond into peninsular India. The Indus civilization is known only from archaeological evidence. Its origins traditionally were viewed as the result of the diffusion of farming and technology from more
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AP WORLD HISTORY COMP ESSAY 2: Compare and contrast the impact of two trans-national exchanges of trade goods‚ beliefs‚ and/or disease on empire: Mediterranean Sea Lanes- on the Roman or Athenian Empires Eurasian Silk Roads- on the Roman‚ Qin‚ Han‚ Maurya‚ or Gupta Empires Indian Ocean Sea Lanes- on the Maurya or Gupta Empires Tran-Saharan Caravan Routes- on the Roman Empire Thesis: 1. Preview 2. 2 Trade routes 3. Impact on empire (good/beliefs/or disease) Brain Storming: Silk Road: Han-
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THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE BaBUR The foundation of the empire was laid in 1526 by ahir al-Din Mu?ammad Babur‚ a Chagatai Turk (so called because his ancestral homeland‚ the country north of the Amu Darya [Oxus River] in Central Asia‚ was the heritage of Chagatai‚ the second son of Genghis Khan). Babur was a fifth-generation descendant of Timur on the side of his father and a 14th-generation descendant of Genghis Khan. His idea of conquering India was inspired‚ to begin with‚ by the
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The death of Alauddin in AD 1316 was a signal of civil war and a scramble for power amomg rival parties. Malik Kafur got rid of the princes one by one‚ and assumed power as a regent. However‚ the slaves of Alauddin hatched a conspiracy against him‚ and Kafur was murdered. The last Khalji ruler was Khusrao Khan who was killed by in AD 1320. The nobles‚ who were tired of the chaos and confusion‚ raised Ghias-ud-din tuglaq‚ also called Ghazi Malik‚ to the throne in AD 1320. Ghias-ud-din Tuglaq Ghias-ud-din
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18 march 2013 Morning 11:12 panel . shah jee ullah Wafa perviz ‚Farheen zafar ‚Nagina ‚ Evening 2:00 opening saira ‚ Quratulain ‚ sobia ‚ khalida Topic games aur dramey jo damagh par asar andaz ho. 2:30 Urdu News . Wahid ullah 3:00 english back to back music 3:3o English news Ali imran 3:36 pushto segment Muhammad imran anees takar
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