In April 1915 the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic decimation of its civilian Armenian population. The persecutions continued with varying intensity until 1923 when the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey. The Armenian population of the Ottoman state was reported at about two million in 1915. An estimated one million had perished by 1918‚ while hundreds of thousands had become homeless and stateless refugees. By 1923 virtually the entire Armenian
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prices. The majority of Jewish people fled to Portugal and Italy; but nonetheless‚ some escaped to North Africa or the area of the Ottoman Empire at the time. The new name of the Jews’ from Spain became known as Marrano’s and Sephardi’s. This horrific event set the rise of the Messianic Movement and the development of the Jewish communities in Europe and in the Ottoman Empire. The rise of the Messianic Movement is a very important chapter in Jewish history. The Messianic Movement started
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who wanted independence from the Ottoman empire‚ Germans who wanted to unify and become one country‚ Italians who wanted unification‚ and others (in France for example) who wanted to overthrow the monarchy and replace it with a democratic republic. Keeping all these groups under surveillance and control would prove to be more than Metternich could handle. In the 1820’s‚ a movement for independence in Greece became open warfare against the Ottoman Empire. This would be Metternich’s first
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Ferdinand in June 1912 was because the Balkan States were fed up of being owned by the Ottomans‚ so Serbia‚ Greece‚ Bulgaria‚ and Montenegro came together and formed the Balkan League and decided to attack them. This was the first Balkan War. In just 3 weeks the Balkan League had pushed the Ottoman Empire as far back as Adrianople in Turkey. This increased tension in Europe because the fall of the Ottoman Empire worried Austria-Hungary because they thought that they were Serbia’s next target as they
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many cases of the elimination of an ethnic or religious population. One case study is the Armenian Genocide. From 1915 to 1916 was the massacre against the minority of Christian Armenians by the Young Turks‚ an extremist group that governed the Ottoman Empire at the time. Millions of Armenians were forced from their homes‚ marched into the desert‚ and murdered
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Globalization I September 5‚ 13 From Western Civilization to Global History Why study history? Orientation – why do we…? How did we get here? Analysis – avoiding past mistakes (ex: appeasement)‚ Edmund Burke‚ “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” “The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Identification – pride in historical achievements‚ values Entertainment purposes What to study? Histories of nations – cant forget about
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nations absorbed into the growing Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans established a large empire that spanned from Eastern Europe to Western Asia and North Africa‚ but to govern this vast nation
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MUHAMMAD AL-FATEH Al-Fateh (March 30‚ 1432 – May 3‚ 1481) "the Conqueror" in Ottoman Turkish‚ or‚ in modern Turkish‚ Fatih Sultan Mehmet in early modern Europe was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to September 1446‚ and later from February 1451 to 1481. At the age of 21‚ he conquered Constantinople and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire‚ absorbing its administrative apparatus into the Ottoman state. Al-Fateh continued his conquests in Asia‚ with the Anatolian reunification
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Azerbaijan in the first half of XVIII century. Expansion policy of Peter the I; the dynasty of Nadir shah. Safavid state was in great political and economic rests in the first half of XVIII century. The treasure of the state was so empty that‚ sultan Hussein (1694-1722) ordered to smelt items of Ardabil vaunt‚ which possessed to his ancessors. Feudals and governors used from the weakness of the state and tried to create independent regions as well. The circumstances of ordinary people was much
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It all started within the Ottoman architecture in 14th and 15th centuries. This architecture was mainly influenced of different and multiple combination of other kinds of architecture which are the Islamic architecture‚ Byzantine architecture and Iranian architecture‚ this gave the multicultural outlook of the empire. The Ottoman architecture developed in a massive way at that time. It got to be creative within the great harmony of the inner and outer spaces. It also was known by seeing the massive
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