Süleyman was the only son of Sultan Selim I. He became sancak beyi (governor) of Kaffa in Crimea during the reign of his grandfather Bayezid II and of Manisa in western Asia Minor in the reign of Selim I. Süleyman succeeded his father as sultan in September 1520 and began his reign with campaigns against the Christian powers in central Europe and the Mediterranean. Belgrade fell to him in 1521 and Rhodes‚ long under the rule of the Knights of St. John‚ in 1522–23. At Mohács‚ in August 1526‚ Süleyman
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It is called the 800mm siege. It is a giant cannon that travels on giant railroads‚ and when the gun is fully assembled it weighed 1‚350 tonnes and could fire shells weighing 7 tonnes as far as 47 kilometers ( Or 29 miles). A Krupp engineer‚ Erich Müller‚ calculated the task to
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How and why did the Second and Third Crusades fail to match the enthusiasm and success of the First? When Pope Urban II received a petition from the Byzantine Emperor Alexius for military aid to repel the threat of Islam‚ particularly the Muslim Turks‚ he saw an opportunity to repair the Great Schism of forty years and unite the church under papal primacy.1 Europe at this time was not only fervently Christian‚ but its knights‚ although they regarded bloodshed as inherently sinful‚ consistently
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Jonathan Gogol Jim Dumke Intro. OT Exegesis #2 Jeremiah 31:23-40 This particular section of the book of Jeremiah talks about a revelation from Yahweh that entails a promise of a “new covenant” for His people Israel; one that would enable them to fully know and follow Yahweh and his commands. This vision of consolation comes despite Israel’s consistent unfaithfulness to Yahweh‚ and also at a time when the people are truly suffering; by way of the destruction of their land by the hands of
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of Attica‚ Pericles commanded to move more than one hundred thousand people from Attica to Athens and bring them inside the city walls. As long as Athenian navy would stay supreme‚ Athenians could survive any siege‚ by resupplying from the allies of the empire. The technology of military siege machines in this period was not developed enough to break such walls easily. Consequently‚ regardless of what harm was done to the agricultural lands of Attica during the war‚ the Athenians could rely on sea
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slight limp he had since birth (Saba‚ 2004). He wasn’t a Private for long though. In May of 1775‚ when 1600 men were called to service‚ Greene was promoted to Brigadier General. He and his men immediately marched to Cambridge to take part in the siege of Boston in 1775‚ where all of his military study paid off (Nathanael‚ 2004). His incredible leadership skills impressed General George Washington. Due to his respect for Greene‚ General Washington then appointed him to the rank of Major General and
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human force was not sufficient enough to conquer a castle or destroy a ship. That was the time when ancient engineers introduced siege warfare‚ when “simple yet complicated hurling machines that rely on the fundamentals of math and physics using levers‚ force torsion‚ tension‚ and traction” were brought to the battlefield. One of the most unique and destructive siege weapons was the ancient Greek ballista‚ used by Alexander the Great and later improved by the Romans. Ballista is a “torsion-powered
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Weapons and Arms in the Middle Ages In my observations of the Medieval time period I found the weapons to be brutal‚ and atrocious. From war hammers to napalm to the arquebus‚ this was by far the most in-humane advancement in weapons apart from modern day. The Medieval time went from about the 11th century to the 14th. During this time survival depended on the power of the certain ruler people served under. The power of the ruler depended directly upon his army and the army upon their weapons
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The Peloponnesian War was the second major conflict between the most powerful Greek City-states Athens and Sparta. Lasting from 431-404 BC‚ the Peloponnesian War was considered by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides‚ to be the greatest disturbance that had ever affected the Greeks. Thucydides was a fifth century BC Athenian historian‚ political philosopher and general. He is considered by many to be the “Father of scientific history” due to his strict guidelines when it came to gathering evidence
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Irish Bagpipes (Brian Boru pipe) The bagpipes have been a huge part of Irish music for many years. Today the bagpipe is synonymous with Scotland‚ but the pipes really came from Ireland. The earliest bag pipes date back to 4000 B.C. in the Middle East‚ where a bagpipe is found in Chaldean sculptures. This evidence shows it is ancient‚ certainly as old as the harp and nearly as old as the drum. Greeks‚ Egyptians and Romans all marched to the sound of the pipes to battle. As
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