What was the Achaemenid Empire? What invasion brought down the Achaemenid dynasty? What precipitated the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire? What was a major consequence of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire? What caused the ultimate fall of the Byzantine Empire?
What problems led to the decline of the Aztec Empire? What caused the Western Roman Empire to fall? What conditions precipitated the Abbasid Revolution? What factors led to the fall of the Byzantine Empire? What was a major consequence of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire?
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power. —Leo Tolstoy...
CHAPTER 6 Global Mass Society The most important development that accelerated contemporary globalization was the universalization of capitalism when the Cold War ended. Capitalism advanced into the separate economic system led by the Soviet Union, which collapsed by 1991. In the name of "free trade,...
In “the West”, Nietzsche was the last anti-mass-politics anti-populist thinker, the last of the old order (which stretched back to the Greeks and before). Somewhere else, Al-Hakim’s quote mentioned above is reveals a similar pre-modern understanding of the human condition. That is not...
The signs that Vladimir Putin was cementing himself as an unassailable totalitarian autocrat and evolving as a self-serving megalomaniac were all there, and the rest of the world ignored them because the impact of these developments was considered to be domestic Russian business, and western governme...
Although the Iberian Peninsula was the place of a more direct encounter be-tween the Islamic world and Latin Christendom as a consequence of the westwardexpansion of thedār al-Islām, authors originating from the Hispanic Christian king-doms were generally no exceptions to the ethnographic-comment...
The necessary consequence of this was political centralization. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments, and systems of taxation, became lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class interest, one ...
group. Still others, when the location of the visit was specifically mentioned, allowed us to code the diarist as hosting, acting as a guest in another’s home, or interaction at a public place. What is the significance of Hansen’s study to the passage()...
So, the evocation of joy, peace, etc., as a consequence of belief, especially blind belief, is perfectly consistent with the fact that the belief is question is utterly delusive. Ramachandra1008 said: 25 June 2011 at 2:28 am Why is the truth-value (truth or falsity) of a belief more...