Both the Ottomans and the Spanish were powerful centers
Both the Ottomans and the Spanish were powerful centers
The Moorish occupation and La Reconquista prepared Spain for its imperial role in America. The occupation turned Spain and city of Cordova into the Western world’s premier center for the study of science and philosophy. The fighting engendered a hardened warrior ethos in…
Both the empires of the Mongols and the Aztecs were similar in that they both controlled a large territory. The Mongols had possibly the largest territory under a single ruler that the world will possibly ever see. Their land extended from Asia, to the mediterranean, with very few revolts. The empire was this large because the very influential rule of Chinggis Khan, who gathered all of the nomadic rulers nearby and he made alliances with them due to his diplomatic skills, becoming the first khagan. This powerful new army led him to log conquest of most of the known world, one that Chinggis sons would continue to pursue as well. The Aztecs had a large empire in comparison to nearby one due to the constant need for captives in order to perform ritual sacrifices. Ritual Sacrifices are a way to appease the…
The rise of the Mongol and Aztec empires had a large impact on the areas they inhabited. The lands and regions they occupied had been completely conquered and affected by the invasions of these empires. Both the Aztecs and the Mongols were very similar in many aspects such as their ultimate goal to gain more power and land. Even though the Aztecs and Mongols shared many similarities in their war tactics, they had many variations when talking about their religious, technological and hierarchic…
The history of these two empires shows how they were able to conquer the different variations of subjects, and by this the Mongols had to conquer slightly more technologically advanced populations than the Aztecs had to. Even with being built on different hemispheres and different time periods, it is very odd how they compared in becoming popular and prosperous empires, until their decline of course. Besides their sad endings, their rise, as always, shows the great human ability to find a way to gain power in any way possible. From 600-1450, the Aztec and Mongol Empires rose and fell but in their rise to power they both needed merchants to work along with their expansion and also both did not…
The Aztec empire was of immense population and size which benefited from a central control. Cortes had discovered that his conquest of Mexico would not be as easy as Pizarro’s conquest of the Incas. The process the leadership being killed after gradual trade would not be possible in Mexico. It was the religious beliefs of the Aztecs that gave Cortes and his men the opportunities necessary for conquest. Thesis.…
The forms of conquest and domination throughout the Middle East and Central Asia varied greatly throughout the centuries. The most successful empires were able to expand and exert their dominance through tactics that had not been utilized in previous empires. While the Umayyad and Safavid empires were powerful, the Ottoman and Mongol Empires became two of the strongest empires in the Middle East and Central Asia due to their inclusion of minorities, powerful tactics, and expansion through military force and trade.…
When the Spanish conquered the Aztecs in 1521, life changed drastically for all the inhabitants. The Spanish recently freed from Muslim rule were eager to spread Christianity and prove themselves as an advanced culture. They did this by exploring new areas and claiming the territories that they found. They were not respectful of the pre-existing cultures and they treated the indigenous as subhuman.…
After all, religion drove the majority of the conquest. For example, after capturing a native lord they, “told him as much as [they] could in the short time... about the Lord and about our Christian faith, all of which was new to him. The friar told him that, if he would only believe... he would go to Heaven there to enjoy glory and eternal rest, but that, if he would not, he would be consigned to Hell, where he would endure everlasting pain and torment” (1.). Nearly every step of the way religion or belief was a part of the great conquest. The intensity of belief that each culture held may have caused a clash of religions.…
Since the beginning of development, many different cultures came into existence. Civilizations began and of course empires grew. Several reasons lead to the evolution of large, powerful empires. Some include cultural diffusion, great leaders, inventions, and more. The main reasons were independent inventions and cultural diffusion.…
During the early modern age, three major Muslim empires controlled a large part of the land extending from eastern Europe and northern Africa to eastern India. All three of these dynasties had their roots in nomadic Turkish-speaking peoples of central Asia. These three Muslim empires shared similar political and cultural guidelines and traditions that their ancestors had adopted. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these dynasties were the most dominant, by the eighteenth century, these empires had significantly weakened, because of their long, costly wars, domestic difficulties, and corrupted leadership.…
Dictionary.com describes compassion as a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering (2012). Bush describes compassion fatigue as a complex emotion that allows caregivers to hold and sustain themselves in emotional balance while holding patients’ despair in one hand and their hopefulness in the other (2009). Being able to identify the warning signs, know the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of you as a caregiver, and knowing different coping skills and ways to deal with the stressors of juggling life’s activities can help us as caregivers to keep ourselves in balance.…
In what are commonly regarded as two of the greatest conquests in early history, the Moors of Spain and the Aztec Empire were both dethroned by invading empires. The Moors by the White armies of the Goths and later the Spanish looking for revenge, and the Aztecs by the Spanish themselves, in search of riches in the new world.…
Religion has an important impact on an empire. The religions of both Aztec and Inca Empire, united and sacrificed population. However, Inca Empire forced their religion whereas the Aztec empire did not.…
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