Retrenchment and recovery: AD 1402 - 1481 The Ottoman domain shrinks drastically after Bayazid’s defeat and capture by Timur in 1402. The many small emirs of Turkey reassert their independence‚ as do the Balkan states. The three sons of Bayazid are left with only the family’s central territories round the southern and western sides of the sea of Marmara. They fight each other in a civil war which is won by the youngest‚ Mehmed I‚ in 1413. From this unpromising position‚ the son and grandson
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"The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan‚ a veritable empire of the South‚ to protect the Southern country." ~Woodrow Wilson After the American Civil war there was an extreme amount of hostility between the white people and the African Americans. Blacks were beaten and killed; they were hated by most white people. The hostility grew; in 1866 the original Ku Klux Klan was founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest
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The Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire‚ the survivor of the Roman empire‚ flourished into the oldest and longest lasting empire in our history. It began with Constantine the Great’s triumph of Christianity. He then transferred his capital from Rome to the refounded Byzantium in the early 4th century‚ year 330 AD‚ and named it Constantinople after himself. This city became the surviving safe spot after the breakup of the Western Roman empire by the 5th century. It was by far the largest
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were the main characteristics of each of the Muslim empires‚ and in what ways did they resemble each other? How were they distinct from their European counterparts? The Ottoman Turks consisted of Turkic-speaking nomadic people who had spread westward from Central Asia in the ninth‚ tenth‚ and eleventh centuries. They were located in the northwestern corner of the peninsula‚ which allowed them to expand westward and eventually take over empires between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. The
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Soon after gunpowder’s total potential was discover. The Chinese then invented the cannon. Three major empires saw the power of these cannon and began to create and experiment with this new technology. As known technology advanced so did cannon building and other small arms. This allowed the empires that invested in this technology to strengthen and spread out and conquer more lands. As these empires expanded they began to intrude on European cities. Naturally Europeans didn’t appreciate the intrusion
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Gunpowder Empires Directions: Use the power point and the internet to answer the following questions. Answer all questions in ink only. All answers must be in your own words. 1. Identify the Gunpowder Empires. Include in your answers the leaders of the empires that established them. The gunpowder empires include Mughal‚ Qing‚ Tokugawa‚ and Russia. Their rulers such as Babar in Mongrel‚ Aisin Gyro‚ Tokugawa Lucia‚ and Peter the great in Russia. 2. Why is Akbar remembered? Akbar is remembered because
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someway of taking the tax income earned through alcohol‚ leading to income tax‚ during prohibition the influences for many pop culture icons like Al Capone or Izzy Einstein emerged‚ and afterwards‚ drinking declined. Daniel Okrent’s Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition details this rich history surrounding the Eighteenth Amendment including‚ the time leading up‚ what occurred during both socially and politically‚ and the aftermath. Orkrent is not kind to prohibition‚ he finds it to be a colossal
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beginnings‚ the Islamic Empire established itself as a rival to the Byzantine Empire‚ capturing a large portion of Byzantine-controlled territory within the first few decades of its inception. In three or four paragraphs‚ compare and contrast the societies of the Byzantines and the Muslims in ONE of the following areas: politics‚ economics/trade‚ social structure/culture‚ religion. Why were the Muslims initially so successful in capturing territory from the Byzantine Empire? Why were they unable
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Empire or Emperor? An empire is a state‚ or political system that exercises coercive power over a population. Those with larger populations are more frequently labeled as empires. They conquer‚ rule‚ and extract resources from other states and peoples. Usually‚ empires encompass a considerable variety of peoples and cultures within a single political system. The negative things that come with an empire cannot be overlooked. Many empires are known by their violence‚ exploitation‚ oppression‚ cruel
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territory. In the first centuries conversion to Islam followed the rapid growth of the Islamic world under the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphs. Muslim dynasties were soon established and subsequent empires such as those of the Abbasids‚ Almoravids‚ Seljuk Turks‚ Mughals in India and Safavids in Persia and Ottomans were among the largest and most powerful in the world. The Islamic world was composed of numerous sophisticated centers of culture and science with far-reaching mercantile networks‚ travelers
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