November 5th 2012 History of the Ottoman Empire Istanbul: Memories of a City Book Report by Drake Hicks Professor: YAVUZ SELİM KARAKIŞLA Orhan Pamuks’s Istanbul: Memories of a City pseudo-memoir weaves an intimate and often meandering portrait of Istanbul and its inhabitant’s collective experience of hüzün. The narrator creates dual‚ often conflicting thematic trends‚ unfolding Istanbul both internally and externally in terms of past and present‚ East and West and black and white. Exploring
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complete sentences‚ answer the following questions. Use the question as the stem of your response. Page numbers provided. 1. Who fired the shots that ignited WWI? p.736 2. Give at least one example of Europeans meddling in Ottoman affairs. p.736-7 3. In what 3 empires/regions was nationalism a dividing force? p.738 4. List the members of both of the major alliances that led to WWI. p.738 5. Western powers worked out elaborate military mobilization plans based on what? p.738 6. What was the
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or laicism‚ nationalism‚ populism‚ etatism/statism and reformism/transformationism. Except for republicanism‚ all these had actually firm Ottoman roots‚ not in form of doctrine or principle but as characteristics of the modernization process‚ and as a part of the Ottoman polity14. Secularization/laicization was one of the essential characteristics of the Ottoman modernization since‚ roughly to say‚ the second half of the nineteenth century; early writings on the history of the Turks began at the same
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The Armenian Genocide: Response Paper The movie highlights the extermination of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It uses newspaper articles‚ photographs‚ personal statements and experts in the topic to discuss Turkey’s denial of the genocide to this day. In class we discussed how the Young Turks led the Ottoman Empire during WWI and used the war as a cover-up. The documentary discussed the genocide as a result of the civil war between Muslims and Christians. The government
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The Fall of the Byzantine Empire (1453 A.D.)- The Byzantine Empire‚ for centuries‚ had been in a state of free-falling decline since the end of the Fourth Crusade. While the empire was eventually able to revive itself after the devastating loss that the Fourth Crusade put Byzantium in 1261 A.D. with the rise of the Palaiologoi Dynasty‚ the empire had already endured far too much destruction to be saved from the crippling effects of war. In 1453‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ which had taken much of the Byzantine
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Libya until 1146 when the Spanish took over . The Spanish rule lasted until the 16th century. The Turks defeated the Spanish and in 1551‚ Libya became part of the Ottoman Empire . Libya went through a very brief period of time where it broke free from the Ottoman Rule‚ but shortly thereafter‚ it was put under Ottoman Rule again. The Ottoman Rule was the last rule Libya ad to endure before being imperialized by the Italians. Before the Italian imperialization‚ not much was different about Libya than
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Suleiman And His Women The Ottoman Empire was a vast empire that lasted well over a half a millennia and stretched its borders from the sands of the deserts of Iran and Afghanistan‚ to the northern tip of Africa‚ as well as European nations known today as Bulgaria‚ Bosnia and Greece. The empire began roughly the year 1299 and was led by their first sultan‚ Osman and lasted till 1924 when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk‚ the nations first president‚ reformed the nation. The Ottoman Turks had many customs and
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Raeneisha Cole Spring ‘14 Empires In World History: Reading Response Week 15 As the end of the course is nearing‚ functionally and thematically it is not unexpected that the primary and secondary sources reviewed this week debate the prevalence of one of the world’s rather youngest empires‚ the United States of America. To begin‚ Niall Ferguson asserts that an empire encompasses “economic penetration‚ military projection and cultural influence” (Ferguson 1)‚ which at large‚ is agreed upon
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several individuals displaced and yearning for a safe haven.“ Turkish aggressions against Armenians during World War I‚ Mehmed Talat‚ the Ottoman minister of the interior‚ announces that all Armenians living near the battlefield zones in eastern Anatolia (under Ottoman rule) will be deported to Syria and Mosul”. Sadly‚ with the use of propaganda‚ the Ottoman empire managed to display the Armenians in an inimical light‚ they justified the deportations by professing that it was necessary in order to preserve
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REVOLUTIONARY NATIONALISM AND THE MIDDLE EAST One of the effects of World War I in the Middle East‚ was a variety of nationalist movements began and spread due to the division of the Ottoman Empire. There are five essential assumptions of nationalism: all nationalists believe that humanity is naturally divided into smaller nations‚ nations can be identified by certain characteristics that all its citizens hold in common‚ including; ethnic‚ religious‚ or historical traditions‚ times might change
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