A Tale of Heroes

How Crete functioned as a nation, in the wake of the Andalusian defeat and the Monarchs' Conquest: The King and Queen, for all of their vaunted ability as fighters and tacticians, could only be considered, in the kindest possible interpretation, as passable administrators or economists when they took over Crete (though the Queen did eventually find a knack for it and became an above-average state manager, while the King was forced to as well by the Queen's eventual inability to rule directly). While it is true that Crete's coffers were plentiful during the takeover, thanks mostly to the constant raids, the plentiful trade, and the support of other Arab communities to the Andalusian rulers, this didn't present the newly minted monarchs with many ideas on how to enrich the nation. The Queen was evidently against expeditionary raids, and the proposition of slave workers turned the advocate for it into two cleanly divided advocates, their choices were few, and most of them

11/25/2013 Laura Coltello History of Political Ideas On the Formation and Development of the Revolutionary and Liberation Parties of America. 1929-1930s: The Whispers of Dissent The early decades of the 20th Century had been turbulent ones, not only for America, but for the world at large. World War I, the biggest armed conflict in modern history, had laid claim to millions of lives. The Ottoman Empire, once the specter of the Mediterranean, collapsed on itself, the rotten foundations that had held it no longer able to support the corpse’s weight. The Russian and German Revolutions, too, heralded a massive change in the stability of Northern Europe. Where the Cretan Republic had established itself as hegemon of the Mediterranean, the rest of the continent was taking, and observing, the first steps that would eventually lead to a deadly match that would soon encompass every corner of the world.  But, for now, let’s re-focus back home. The United States of America, the undisputed ruler o