CAS AR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Totalitarianism, Gandhara Kingdom
10 Sep 2017
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They believed that god gave jerusalem to the jews. With a millennium of being oppressed and the holocaust of ww2, more jews moved to. Jerusalem to feel safe, while palestinians contend that this was their home for a very long time. Now, jerusalem capital of israel is a contested space with different neighborhoods of. Jews believe city of king david was there. Archaeologists funded by israel charities digging up under homes of palestinians and slowly taking over palestinian community, buy palestinian houses and have jewish people move in. Archaeologists trying to find evidence of david and sites mentioned in the bible hey know it"s there without question not good science: very hard to keep the archaeology here unbiased because it is politically driven. In 2001, the taliban group bombed the buddha statues of bamiyan of gandhara. Kingdom: caves along the walls where monks used to live. The taliban went in and destroyed the wall painting, leaving shoe marks.
