The Ottoman‚ Safavid‚ and Mughal societies all relied on bureaucracies that drew inspiration from the steppe traditions of Turkish and Mogol people and from the heritage of Islam‚ they adopted similar policies‚ they looked for ways to keep peace in their societies which were made up of different religious and ethnic backgrounds‚ and they were associated with literary and artistic talents. Military and religious factors gave rise to all three of these empires. The Ottoman Empire: The Ottoman
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The Ottoman empire is one of very few empire to be successful with Islamic belief. The sole purpose of this paper is to explain how did the Ottomans rose to be powerful and how their relations with the western world lead to the westernization of the Ottoman empire‚ which lead indirectly to the collapse of that significant empire. The paper attempts to answer the question: Critically discuss the rise of the Ottomans‚ their institutions and their relations with Europe. This paper argues that if the
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The Ottoman Empire was a successful frontier state‚ which was named from the Osman Bey. Being placed on the border of Byzantine empire‚ the Ottoman had the opportunity to wage war. In 1326‚ the Ottoman had their first great success by capturing the Anatolian city of Bursa. With this captured‚ Anatolian became one of the Ottoman principality. Adrianople became the second capital and also was place as the base for further expansion. “The downfall of the Ottoman empire has developed as an outcome of
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The Armenian Genocide was a devastating event that took place in the declining Ottoman Empire in 1915. More than half of the Armenian Population was killed; 1.5 million people. By 1922‚ there were fewer than 400‚000 Armenians. Those that were not killed were starved‚ beaten‚ and left without shelter; kicked out of the empire. However‚ to the Turks this was no more than a messy war. With the threat of a Russian invasion‚ the Turks questioned the Armenians loyalty. The Turks were not sure if the
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While the rest of the world was distracted by World War I‚ the Ottoman Empire saw their chance to brutally and wrongfully slaughter those of the Armenian race‚ a Christian minority. A study showed that there were approximately 2‚133‚190 Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1914‚ but by 1922 only around 387‚800 left in the empire due to either death or immigration (Kifner). The Armenians are an older type of people‚ hailing from Armenia‚ which is now occupied by a part of Northeastern Turkey and the
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Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State by Hakan Özoğlu Review by: Buşra Özdemir‚ 211553806 Published by State Univ of New York (February 2004) Series: Suny Series in Middle Eastern Studies Hardcover: 192 pages Rise of Kurdish Nationalism This book examines the issue in the context of Ottoman Empire. It focuses primarily on understanding the social‚ political‚ and historical forces behind the emergence and development of Kurdish nationalism in the Ottoman context which it was born. Also‚ this
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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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The Ming Dynasty ruled ancient China for almost three hundred years‚ establishing a significant role in the history of China through its structured government. “At its peak‚ the Ming Dynasty made China a global superpower‚ influencing the known world in trade‚ culture and might” (Barksdale para. 1). The Ming Dynasty was the last of the Chinese dynasties to be ruled by the native Han Chinese. During the Ming Dynasty‚ the arts flourished‚ including literature‚ pottery‚ painting‚ and music. Similar
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changed the Empire immensely. The sons of Suleiman‚ who ruled the Ottoman Empire who once were able to call each other brothers‚ now call each other traitors because each son was consumed by greed and an obsession for power now that their father is out of throne and only one may rise up to the hierarchy. They each had plans to skyrocket the empire in their own very different ways. And so no matter who became the next Sultan‚ despite making enemies every time the Ottomans had expanded‚ the Ottomans kept
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Empire is generally defined as a group of nations or states that are controlled by someone with a significant power (Wikipedia‚ n.d.). In another words‚ an empire is established when a state has absolute control over other different states (Crabben‚ 2009). Some ancient empires were stronger than others. Three important aspects that make up a strong empire are military power‚ expansion of colonial rule and the economy. British and Ottoman Empires were two examples of the great empires in the past
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