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    The Persian Empire was successful in expanding to become the largest empire up to their time. Cyrus became ruler of the Perisan Empire in 559 BCE and clamed control of all regions stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Halys River. Threatened by this‚ the Lydians‚ led by their king Croesus‚ attacked the Persians before they even attempted to conquer them. The Persians emerged victorious‚ and their expansion began. They then invaded and took over the Mesopotamian region. Cyrus was unlike previous

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    important question is‚ but was the Mongol Empire brilliant or brutal? The documents that we read support that the Mongol empire was brutal. I will use documents 1 and 4 to support my arguments. The first reason the Mongol Empire was brutal has to do with the document on code of conduct whosever commits adultery will be executed. This evidence helps explain how the Mongol empire was brutal because they killed allot of people. A second reason the Mongol empire

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    Suleiman the First‚ was the 10th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire‚ who first came to a leadership position as a prince at the age of 17 as a governor. Suleiman was well known throughout Europe and the Ottoman empire as “Suleiman the Magnificent” as well as “Suleiman the Lawgiver” for all the accomplishments he achieved as sultan. In Ottoman Empire‚ all people are considered slaves beneath the sultan‚ not in a derogative way as one nowadays would think but in a cultural and religious aspect. Lybyer (1913)

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    was built up by large empires characterized by constant patterns of change‚ trade‚ and considerable changes in technologies. In 1492 CE these civilizations got global‚ meaning that the interactions among these different societies stopped being regional. Two empires who were very important during the Postclassical Period were the Byzantine Empire and China. Geographically these civilizations were far apart‚ but as they developed‚ they became two of the most influential empires of the time. Also‚ as

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    1829. During their struggle for independence‚ there was a variety of views coming from people throughout Europe. Many European countries supported this act‚ while others felt it was very important for the Greeks to stay under rule of the Ottoman empire. The point of views varied from liberal minded people who had negative feelings towards the turks‚ who were autonomies‚ therefore sympathized for the Greeks wanting to self-rule‚ a christian perspective (many of which also happen to be greek)‚ and

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    Fall of the Western Roman Empire By: Linus Kollie Period: 7R 3/5/13 The fall of the Western Roman Empire was due to excess corruption‚ the role of shifts in power‚ increased technology beyond its borders‚ economic problems such as trade‚ dependents on slavery‚ and less on the part of roman farmers. Germanic invasions also caused the fall. This made the fall of such a large cumbersome empire inevitable. Enemies always described Rome as a bridge that was once not passable. It was the America

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    The Persian Empire‚ founded by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC‚ was the largest empire of the ancient world‚ stretching from the borders of India and China in the east to large parts of Greece and Libya.The empire was divided into provinces called satrapies.They respected the people they conquered.The timeframe is 550-330 b.c..Persian government was a monarchy system in which the kings had the final say so in how things were supposed to be handled. The first king through 559-529 BCE and the

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    The Ottoman Empire was under control by the Muslims‚ and during that time era‚ there was a system called devshirme. “It was no wonder then that Ottoman Christians deployed many strategies to avoid the devshirme” (Strayer‚ p. 495). The devshirme system was a convolute situation to stay away from because there would be Ottoman officers collecting all the young Christian boys. It was a devastating for the parents getting their sons taken away from them. Strayer states that the parent’s bargain with

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    Between 1450 and 1750‚ three great Muslim empires arose—the Ottomans‚ the Safavids‚ and the Mughals. The Ottomans arose after the Seljuk Turkic kingdom of Rum in Eastern Anatolia collapsed‚ which occurred because of a Mongol invasion in 1243. The area fell into a chaotic period after that because the Mongols did not directly rule it. In search of riches‚ Turkic peoples‚ including the Ottomans who dominated the rest‚ flooded into the area. By the 1350s‚ the Ottomans were advancing from their Asia

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    fall(Wilkes). These developments were of such crucial importance to the extent that they are widely regarded as the foundation of many democratic concepts‚ sciences and mathematical concepts and legal concepts of the modern day. The legacy of the Roman Empire pervades into multiple aspects of everyday life in Western society whilst simultaneously serving as an example of success and failure in a society through its contributions to the western legal systems‚ science and mathematics and language. The

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