Terrorism in Retrospect: From Zealots to 21st Century
Abstract
The history of terrorism is as old as the human being. In fact, it comes from an ancient practice as “a new mode of fight”. Political violence and terrorism is an ancient development not modern one but terrorizing of individuals by their fellow individuals on ethnic or political bases goes more back. In ancient times terrorism has been adopted in tribal riots. Mostly it was used and still using as an “arm of the poor”. History records the first appearance of planned terrorist act in the Middle East in first century. The Zealots initiated an organized fight against the royal authority. The Zealot faction was first and initial group to use systematic terror, in written record history. Since that time terrorism continued its travel till 9/11 when Pentagon and world trade Centre of U.S were targeted by terrorists which gave birth to the Global War on Terror. The main objective of this paper is to explore the history of terrorism from the first century till the 21st century in detail.
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