Sikhism began as a movement to combine

Sikhism emerged as an effort to harmonize Islamism and Hinduism. But observing Sikhism as a harmonization of the two faiths do not apprehend the doctrinal and aesthetic feature of the Sikh faith. To command Sikhism, an accommodation within Islamism and Hinduism would be considered as an outrage akin to summoning a Christian a skeptical Jew. Sikhism is not worship nor a combination but a distinguished theological evolution.

popular sovereignty   influenced the declaration of independence because the colonists wanted to have freedom to do they wanted so they put into writing

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire