The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot were both rejecting any features of the modern world. This makes then so eager to get Cambodia back to "year zero". Pol Pots idea behind year zero was that all the culture and modern traditions within a society should be completely discarded. When Pol Pot took charge in 1975 he wanted his desire for an agrarian society to happen. He single out all intellectuals in society, including: doctors, lawyers, teachers and executed them.
He influenced the KPRP to become Marxism-Leninism minded. Cambodia was against communism, so Pol Pot and other KPRP leaders had to move deep into the jungle. In 1968, Pol Pot and his new Khmer Guerilla army launched an uprising against Cambodia’s current heredital government. This battle would rage on until 1973 with all of Vietnam and even the United States stepping in to help. By August 1973, Pol Pot’s army had grown large and became a force to be reckoned with.
First off, he took control of Cambodia and ruled over the people. His actions already display aggressiveness since he rules over the country, limiting people of their freedoms. Additionally, he killed many people for an unnecessary reason. Pol Pot displays evil actions, since he murdered people because he sees flaws in them. This is similar Mengele.
Kim later finds out the letters to 5 kings to stir up instability as the proof to their ill intentions. Kipling shows both sides of the Imperial power: the good and the bad. The good things about the Imperial power seem to be the advantages and the advancement being brought to India while the bad deteriorates the power towards domination and blind their own people from seeing true values of things. Creighton and Lurgan voluntarily learn to integrate themselves with the locals which proven to be a good thing for their position of power whereas the ill treatment that the bad characters are giving to the natives will not help them to integrate into the society peacefully. Thus, it is merely a suggestion that an attempt to understand the locals ' cultures and traditions will help the Imperial power to maintain their power.
One of the slogans that illustrates Pol Pot’s ideas of his communist state said “To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss”. The Khmer Rouge sealed off Cambodia so that the world would not look in. By sealing off Cambodia to the rest of the world, Pol Pot hoped that he could abolish all history involved with Cambodia before his ‘Khmer Rouge’ government. This was his idea of ‘Year Zero’ and the way in which he brought about these ideas proved him an idealistic and brutal
King tut was probably one of the best known kings because his body was found. The same year that Tutankhamen took power, he married Ankhesenamun, his half sister and the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Due to Tutankhaten's young age when he assumed power, the first years of his reign were probably controlled by an elder known as Ay, who bore the title of Vizier.As the populace was forced to honor Aten, the religious conversion threw the society into chaos. The capital was changed from Thebes to Amarna, and Akhenaten put all of his efforts into the religious transition,
There was no modern equality in Persia; the Achaemenid Empire was a hierarchy, with Persians unmistakably on top. Equality is important in every society for people to be happy, and the Achaemenid Empire was very unequal. Persians were superior to other people, which also goes against the ideals of acceptance and tolerance. This negatively impacted the world at the time, since people were treated unfairly. Additionally, Towards the end of the empire Xeres and other kings started doing more violent killings, and being more intolerant.
The Iranian Revolution has a history of chaos in order to put power in the hands of the people. The 1953 coup was to overthrow of the elected prime minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh. Mohammad Mosaddegh almost succeeded in deposing the shah incensed Iran's intellectuals.
In 1977, Pol Pot begins a second series of purges to eliminate all communist dissidents and moderates. This time around, the executions were more widespread and affect all of Cambodia’s population not just certain groups. In 1979, North Vietnam takes over Phnom Penh forcing Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge to flee to Thailand and the People’s Republic of Kampuchea is established. Hundreds of thousands educated middle class are tortured and executed in special centers; others were starved or died from disease or exhaustion. Total death over the four years were at least 1.7 million approximately 21% of the
Sumer and Egypt developed divergent forms of political organization because their surrounding environments imposed different structural forces on their societies. Within Sumer and Egypt, two unique forms of political organization developed. The development of these forms can be largely credited to influences on the initial creation and preservation of the two systems. Sumer and Egypt began with fundamentally different governmental structures, which, in part, impacted the unity of their nations as they developed. The river resources of each kingdom influenced the preservation of the political unity of each nation.