The Ottomans‚Safavids‚and Mughals were powerful Muslim empires that were successful due to their access to gunpowder‚and good leadership early on in the start of the empires.The 3 gunpowder empires had difficulty sustaining power due to mistreatment of peasantry‚and poor leadership‚ which led to their decline in 1700 CE. One of the reasons that the empires were so successful‚ was because of gunpowder‚which gave them an advantage over other nations.This is shown when Father Paul Simon wrote about
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reforms which benefited the peasants and he knew the peasants were key in building a coalition of support in the Duma. Stolypin persuaded the Tsar Nicholas II to introduce a number of reforms: All State and Crown lands were made available to the Peasants Land Bank for purchase by peasants which ultimately made the peasants feel as if they had more independence. Stolypin enabled for peasants to leave their Mir without needing consent first which again gave the peasants a sense of freedom and independence
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Life in Europe changed dramatically in the sixteenth century. The church was extremely powerful and central to all parts of the lives of Europeans‚ but the events that took place during this new reformation would challenge that. Once the church was challenged‚ change was almost immediate. What once was a unifying force split‚ and although a period of violence and unrest followed‚ it was a major turning point in history sparked by Martin Luther and the posting of his 95 Theses. Martin Luther was
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Reasons for Decline of Tang Dynasty There were four reasons leading to Tang’s decline‚ among which the dominance of the eunuchs‚ the separatist regions of Fanzhen and clique conflicts were internal factors while peasants’ uprising was the external factor. First‚ the dominance of eunuchs during this dynasty was unparalleled in Chinese history‚ much more rampant than that of Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220) and the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). From the late period of Emperor Xuanzong’s reign‚ the
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Assess the significance of the short term consequences of the Emancipation Edict from 1861 to 1881 The Emancipation Edict issued by Alexander II was of greatest significance to the effects on the people of Russia socially. Although the social effects of the edict were of the greatest significance‚ the economic impact on the country and the political effect on the Tsarist regime cannot be overlooked. Kropotkin suggests that Emancipation had positive social consequences for the Russian people in source
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Agriculture * Carried through by sheer brute force. * All peasants who owned any property at all were hostile to the plan‚ and had to be forced to join by armies of party members‚ who urged poorer peasants to seize cattle and machinery from the kulaks (prosperous peasants) to be handed over to the collectives. * Peasants who refused to join collective farms were arrested and taken to labour camps‚ or shot. * Many peasants were demoralized after the seizure of their land and property.
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woman from Guatemala‚ explains the repression of Indians in Guatemala and the subsequent formation of a resistance movement. One of the most memorable parts of the book is her description of the Indian peasants’ 1980 occupation of the Spanish Embassy‚ in which at least 36 government officials and peasants‚ including her father‚ died. In her account‚ she helps the readers to understand the event through the perspective of the affected Guatemalan population. Though her depiction of this event is likely
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How stable was the Russian state in the period from 1906-1914? Following the Revolution of 1905‚ the stability of Russia appeared to increase‚ as policies and changes were made in order to put an end to the unrest of the Russian citizens. Although this was a good idea‚ the Tsar failed to pursue many of his promises‚ and so many aspects of Tsarist Russia remained untouched and‚ displeasingly to a large amount of people‚ very much as disappointing as before. Some change can be seen economically
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The Middle Ages‚ despite also being referred to as the Dark Ages‚ was a time of high creativity. The misconception that it was "dark" is most likely due to the two periods directly before‚ and after it‚ which had more advancement and focus on learning and education. This period of creativity would not last. A series of crises would strike the people of medieval Europe in a manner extremely similar to those foretold in the Bible‚ brought by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It was so similar in
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into account when considering what a structural theory actually is. They are‚ however‚ usually composed of peasant rebellions which have become extremely defensive in order to protect the traditional lifestyles against increasing strains‚ which include the increase in population; “commercialization and market growth”; and the “dislocation among the elites that traditionally mediate peasants’ interactions with government authorities and the outside world”.[1] From reading Charles Tilly’s paper
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