The word âHolocaustâ originates from the Greek term holokauston. The word is broken up into two roots: holos, meaning whole, and kaustos, meaning burn. The word etymologically transcended via late Latin, into Old French (holocauste), and eventuall...
The Islamic Republic of Iran changed SAVAK to SAVAMA. It was run after the revolution, according to U.S. sources and Iranian exile sources in the US and in Paris, by Gen. Hossein Fardoust, who was deputy chief of SAVAK under the former Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and a friend from boyhood of the deposed monarch.
During the rule of the Zhou, China's boundaries nearly doubled in size, due to the use of iron weapons(including the crossbow), war chariots, and a calvalry. Despite it being the longest dynasty, there wasn't very much social change, besides the creation of new philosophies and technologies. These important new technologies made up for the lack of social change and a weak government. The Zhou dynasty is split into two time periods: the Western Zhou dynasty and the Eastern Zhou dynasty. The Western Zhou dynasty lasted from 1122 - 770 BC.