2007-12-31 06:43:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The special definition of assassination links it to power and rulership. It is used to denote a killing to remove a rival from power or to take over the power to rule.
The term 'assassin' seems to derive from the Hashshashin, who were a militant Muslim sect, active in the Middle East from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries. This was a secret society that killed members of the ruling élite for political and religious reasons.
It is speculated that the original Hashshashin were drugged for their murders with hashish and opium. "Hashshashin" derived either from hasishin, the influence of the drugs, or hassansin, after their leader, Hassan-i-Sabah.
The earliest literary use in English of the word "assassination" is in The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1605).
2007-12-31 07:20:30 · answer #1 · answered by Diapason45 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-12-31 19:12:50 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To: Pepsi
Shakespeare may have been the first to use the word in English, but it wasn't in the context of the play "Julius Caesar". It was in "Macbeth". Shakespeare got the word from French, so he didn't invent it.
"Assassination" comes from "hassasin" an Arabic word meaning a user of hashish (pot). The problem of islamic terrorism goes way back to the 8th century when the original Ismaili Assassins (Hashashiyyins) used murder to terrorize those whose religious views weren't in sync with their own.
2007-12-31 15:56:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-12-31 15:35:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Assassination is a form of killing someone who is power to make decisions and have a great influence.
Julius Caesar, JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley, etc were all presidents, leaders, and in the power to influence and push decisions.
Murders are just being killed. Even if their is a motive, if the person was not in power, it is not an assassination.
The word assassination was actually made up by William Shakespeare while writing the play Julius Caesar. So that's part of the reason why it's only used to for "famous" people. Famous people as in people in poltical power.
2007-12-31 14:55:41 · answer #5 · answered by pepsi_chugger8899 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is usually used when the person is a Head-of-State, President, King, Queen, etc.,etc.
2007-12-31 14:47:56 · answer #6 · answered by Hondo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its not just a matter of importance.
Motive factors in. If the person is killed for personal reasons not related to their fame/position then it is simply murder no matter who they are.
It has to be politically (or something similar) motivated for it to be assassination. The only reason the person must be important is because killing unimportant people for the same reason is either war or terrorism generally.
2007-12-31 14:47:56 · answer #7 · answered by Showtunes 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋