Epic time-lapse map of Europe. THE MYTHS OF CHRISTIAN EUROPE. I wrote some notes a few months back on Pandaemonium on Rethinking the idea of ‘Christian Europe‘. I reworked that post into an essay, which has now been published in the latest issue of New Humanist. And I’m posting it here, too. UPDATE: The original post (which is much longer than this essay) won the 2011 3QD Politics and Social Sciences Prize. In the warped mind of Anders Breivik, his murderous rampage in Oslo and Utøya earlier this year were the first shots in a war in defence of Christian Europe. The claims about the ‘Muslim takeover’ of Europe, while widely held, have also been robustly challenged. Christianity has certainly been the crucible within which the intellectual and political cultures of Western Europe have developed over the past two millennia.
Christianity may have forged a distinct ethical tradition, but its key ideas, like those of most religions, were borrowed from the cultures out of which it developed. Today, however, that debt has been almost entirely forgotten. » History of the Sailing Warship in the Marine Art: History: Ancient History in-depth. THEOI GREEK MYTHOLOGY, Exploring Mythology & the Greek Gods in C.
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The Great Game. Persia at the beginning of the Great Game in 1814 British-Russian rivalry in Afghanistan[edit] From the British perspective, the Russian Empire's expansion into Central Asia threatened to destroy the "jewel in the crown" of the British Empire, India. The British feared that the Tsar's troops would subdue the Central Asian khanates (Khiva, Bokhara, Khokand) one after another. The Emirate of Afghanistan might then become a staging post for a Russian invasion of India.[6] It was with these thoughts in mind that in 1838 the British launched the First Anglo-Afghan War and attempted to impose a puppet regime on Afghanistan under Shuja Shah. The regime was short lived and proved unsustainable without British military support.
By 1842, mobs were attacking the British on the streets of Kabul and the British garrison was forced to abandon the city due to constant civilian attacks. After the Indian rebellion of 1857, successive British governments saw Afghanistan as a buffer state. Cold War[edit] Schlieffen Plan. The plan took advantage of Russia's slowness and expected differences in the three countries' speed in preparing for war. In short, it was the German plan to avoid a two-front war by concentrating troops in the West and quickly defeating the French and then, if necessary, rushing those troops by rail to the East to face the Russians before they had time to mobilize fully.
The Schlieffen Plan was created by Count Alfred von Schlieffen and modified by Helmuth von Moltke the Younger after Schlieffen's retirement; it was Moltke who actually implemented the plan at the outset of World War I. In modified form, it was executed to near victory in the first month of the war. However, the modifications to the original plan, stronger than expected resistance from the Belgians (whose neutrality had been violated as a result of the plan) and surprisingly speedy Russian offensives contributed to the plan's eventual failure.
Modifications to the Plan, 1906[edit] Activation and subsequent failure[edit] How the Potato Changed the World | History & Archaeology.