with the technology spreading to France‚ then Italy and by 1476 it had arrived in London‚ not everyone saw it as a desirable innovation (Acemoglu YEAR: 230). The Ottoman sultan‚ Bayezid II issued an edict that Muslims were expressly forbidden from printing in Arabic and it was not until 1727 that the first printing press was allowed in Ottoman lands (Acemoglu YEAR: 230). This restriction to the new
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Turkish army officer‚ revolutionary statesman‚ and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first President. Atatürk became known as an extremely capable military officer by being the only undefeated Ottoman commander during World War I.[1] Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire‚ he led the Turkish national movement in the Turkish War of Independence. Having established a provisional government in Ankara‚ he defeated the forces sent by the Allies. His successful military campaigns led
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1. Commercial cities that served as meeting points between distant cultures are called: a. way stations. b. warehouses. c. entrepôts. d. shipping centers. e. nodes. 2. Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt: a. did not need to provide protection for merchants as most trade came by land rather than by sea. b. established a commercial law apart from religion so that all people could participate in trade. c. had Muslim and Jewish trading firms that worked as close partners in
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assassination of Ferdinand‚ new countries involvements due to alliances‚ led to tension‚ and soon the outbreak of WWI. The most important of the long term effects leading to the outbreak of war was imperialism. Seemingly all at once‚ the great European Empires broke free of their decided boundaries‚ and expanded into colonies spanning the entire earth. Most colonized was Africa‚ due to the fact that it seemed every country had a piece of her. Distances meant nothing‚ as many countries spread over thousands
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From 1915 to 1918‚ the Turkish leaders of the Ottoman Empire carried out the killings of 1.5 million Armenians living there at the time. Over the course of those terrible 3 years‚ innocent people were murdered with death marches‚ execution‚ drowning‚ burning and other inhumane ways. Turkey has refused to take blame‚ and even denied the genocide’s existence and occurrence. There has been much dispute about whether or not countries outside of Armenia and Turkey should recognize these mass killings
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to the Austro-Hungarian throne‚ was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip‚ a Bosnian Serb student. The assassination sparked little initial concern in Europe. The Archduke himself was not terribly popular‚ least of all in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. While there were riots in Sarajevo following the Archduke’s death these were largely aimed at the Serbian minority. Though this assassination has been linked as the direct trigger for World War I‚ the war’s real origins lie further back‚ in the complex
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(cite) The Order of the Dragon was devoted to a singular task: the defeat of the Turkish‚ or Ottoman Empire. Situated between Christian Europe and the Muslim lands of the Ottoman Empire‚ Vlad II’s (and later Vlad III’s) home principality of Wallachia was frequently the scene of bloody battles as Ottoman forces pushed westward into Europe‚ and Christian forces repulsed the invaders. (cite) When Vlad II was called to a diplomatic meeting in 1442 with
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civilization among the earliest renowned civilizations of Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ and Greece. At different periods‚ Lebanon had come under the control of several foreign conquerors including Assyrians‚ Babylonians‚ Armenians‚ Persians‚ Greeks‚ Romans‚ Arabs‚ Ottomans and French‚ each leaving a noticeable influence on modern-day Lebanon. What the Greeks names as Phoenicia was a civilization that flourished along the coast for more than 2‚000 years (2700-450 BCE). The Phoenicians developed the first alphabet
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committed with the intent to destroy‚ in whole‚ or in part‚ a national‚ ethical‚ racial‚ or religious group” (Totten and Parsons 4). Indeed by many scholars‚ this is thought to be the case as to what happened to the Armenian population within the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Rouben Paul Adalian‚ author of the critical essay “The Armenian Genocide” published within the book Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts edited by Samuel Totten and William S. Parsons‚ claims this belief to be
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enduring‚ and led to the death of many. On the other hand‚ the Armenian Genocide‚ between the years 1915 and 1918 (during WW1)‚ was planned and organized by the Turkish government against the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. The political party of the Ottoman Empire decided to carry out the genocide against the Armenians after they found out that the Armenians are frequently questioning the government and planning to rebel against it. Millions were massacred‚ and thousands were either
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