2. Mehmed II: Ottoman sultan called the "Conqueror"; responsible for conquest of Constantinople in 1453; destroyed what remained of Byzantine Empire.…
The right of foreign residents in a country to live under the laws of their native country and disregard…
The Ottomans conquered Constantinople and ended the Byzantine Empire in what year? For seven weeks in the spring of 1453, the army of the Ottoman sultan, Mehmed II, “The Conqueror,” which numbered well over 100,000, assaulted the triple ring of land walls that had protected the city for centuries. The outnumbered forces of the defenders repulsed attack after attack until the sultan ordered his gunners to batter a portion of the walls with their massive siege cannon. Wave after wave of Ottoman troops struck at the gaps in the defenses that had been cut by the guns, quickly overwhelmed the defenders, and raced into the city to loot and pillage for the three days that Mehmed had promised as their reward for victory.…
Native Americans were pushed from their lands and forced to change their culture by the…
Constantinople is located today in Istanbul. Sultan Mehmed II who was known as the conqueror attacked Constantinople in 1453. The fall of Constantinople then made the Ottoman Empire seem invincible to anyone around.…
The Ottoman Empire lasted for more than four centuries (1299-1922), and was not dismantled until the end of the World War I (Gelvin, 9). The Ottoman Empire governed a vast amount of territory from the Middle East, North Africa and even parts of Europe (Gelvin, 10). The Ottoman and Safavid Empires overlapped and had many similarities, but the Ottomans were more successful in maintaining a strong empire. The Safavids were successful until the interregnum period that brought Persia war, depopulation, famine and de-urbanization (Gelvin, 10). These factors brought the Safavid Empire to an end, even as…
Earlier in the century, the Great Plains, known as the Great American Desert, was considered by the…
Mustafa Kemal’s impact on the modern Turkish state is irrefutable, so much so that he was given the name Atatürk by the national assembly, meaning “father of the Turks”, banning anyone else from using this name. Turkey, one of the few culturally Islamic nations without a Sharia legal system , is often referred to as one of the most modernized states with a Muslim majority . Atatürk is often attributed with the modernization of Turkey, through, amongst other things, social, political and economic reform. Kemalism, the founding ideology of the republic of Turkey, was a series of extensive programs of reform aimed at modernizing Turkey through six pillars, referred to as the six arrows of Kemalism, namely nationalism, republicanism, secularism,…
Lasting more than six centuries, this Empire was one of the longest, best organized, and most enduring political entities in world history.…
The devastation of the Black Death following hard on the heels of the Mongol destruction of Islam’s most important city and capital of the Abbasid Empire, Baghdad, eliminated Islam’s old political order. Nonetheless, these two catastrophes prepared the way for new Islamic states to emerge. Of these, the Ottoman, the Safavid, and the Mughal dynasties ultimately grew powerful enough to become empires themselves. The most powerful, the Ottoman Empire, occupied the pivotal area between Europe and Asia. They embraced a Sunni view of Islam, while adopting traditional Byzantine ways of governance and trying new ways of integrating the diverse peoples of their expanding territories.…
2. Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–1566) conquered Belgrade (1521) and Rhodes (1522) and laid siege to Vienna (1529), but withdrew with the onset of winter.…
In Ottoman Brothers, Michelle Campos attempts to dispel the misconceived notion of the role of ‘ethnic nationalisms’ in the last Islamic Empires disintegration. By utilizing a wide range of sources, Campos illustrates how the Ottoman Empire was far from a ‘prison of nations’, where ‘natural nationalisms’ slowly deteriorated the national composition. That it was, in contrast, a melting pot of ethnicities sharing in the faith of newly acquired liberties. Campos’s specific focus on Twentieth-Century Palestine highlights the broader challenges faced by the evolving empire as a whole. Amongst these challenges is the overall failure of the Ottoman bureaucracy to deliver the promises encapsulated in the 1908 revolution. However, it would be the rise of foreign infiltration through capitulations, communal rivalries, costly wars and territorial concessions that greatly weakened the Ottoman state and expedited its demise.…
The Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire were both Muslim Empires, along with the Mughal Empire, which developed around the same time in history. The Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire were both very significant and successful empires in the Middle East. The Ottoman Empire is similar to the Safavid Empire because they share similar intellectual style and development, and they share similar artistic styles. The Ottoman Empire differs from the Safavid Empire because of the difference in their religious beliefs.…
What do the inscription Suleyman the Magnificent and the excerpts from Busbecq's letters reveal about the Ottoman Empire?…
She includes the Persian Empire in her book because they had military and economic strength. They were skilled in using the strengths of the people they conquered to succeed.…