Unseen Comprehension-18 Alim (Terror)

Terror.

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Terrorism is the use of violence, or the threat of violence, to create a climate of fear among people. Terrorist violence targets ethnic or religious groups, governments, political parties, corporations and media enterprises. Organizations that engage in acts of terror are almost always small in size and limited in resources compared to the populations and institutions they oppose. Through publicity and fear generated by their violence, they seek to magnify their influence and power to effect political change on either a local or an international scale.

Terrorist acts date back to at least the 1st century, when the Zealots, a Jewish religious sect, fought against Roman occupation of what is now Israel. In the 12th century in Iran, the Assassins, a group of Islam (Shiah Muslim) conducted terrorist acts against religious and political leaders of Sunni Islam. Through the 18th century, terrorists generally acted from religious zeal. At the beginning of the 19th century, terrorist movements acquired a more political and revolutionary orientation. In the late 19th  and  early 20th centuries, anarchists in Italy, Spain and France used terrorism. Prior to the outbreak of  World War 1 in 1914 the Russian revolutionary movement also possessed a strong terrorist element in its struggle against Russian royalty and aristocracy. 

In the letter half of the 20th century acts of terror multiplied, driven by fierce nationalist and  ideological motivations and facilitated by technological advances in transportation, communications, micro-electronics.