* Younger sons hope to earn land or win glory by fighting (although historian Rodney Stark in God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades disagrees with that theory because the first three crusades were led by the heads of the royal families of Europe).…
The right of foreign residents in a country to live under the laws of their native country and disregard…
22. Which group represented such extreme conservatism within the Ottoman Empire that reform was frustrated? The intense conservatism of powerful groups such as the Janissaries, and to a lesser extent the religious scholars, reinforced this fatal attitude. Through much of the 17th and 18th centuries, these groups blocked most of the Western-inspired innovations that reform-minded sultans and their advisors tried to…
Document 1: SAFAVID “great liking for warfare and weapons of war…fine soldier and very skilled, and his men so dexterous—use of muskets””realm extended and soldiers receive pay all year” Paul Simon, missionary to Safavid Court of Shah Abbas The Great in the city of Isfaha, 1605—visitor to Safavid court, therefore perhaps biased in treatment of soldiers and mencourt has only the best of the best. Plus biased towards Europe, therefore men are “little behind our men in Europe.” success of the empire was its treatment of the recruited slave youth into the army and bureaucracybackbone of army and loyal to Abbas I.…
17. In what ways did the Ottoman state under Sultan Selim III try to reform itself in its…
From what groups in Chinese society did the founder of the Taiping Rebellion draw his followers? Pg. 602…
By the beginning of this timeframe, the Ottoman Sultans have already been successful at re-establishing an Islamic Empire in the Middle East.…
In attempting to compare theories of Government we need to look at the type of government in place in both England1 and The Ottoman Empire2,3 we need to define the period for comparison. It would be good to use descriptions of the rise of each form of government by following a timeline to form the basis of this essay. This unfortunately can't be the case, other than time there is no like-for-like comparison. The Ottoman’s imperial or dynastic monarchy, with a realm, extending over many countries needs to be looked at as an empire with responsibilities, which are by their very nature, complicated by the cultures they cross. England’s feudal monarchy and its constitutional executive government was very much focussed on internal affairs, ongoing wars and skirmishes with traditional foe, France, is somewhat the opposite of the Ottoman4.…
The Janissaries became more than just a mere military institution because of their terroristic demeanor and approach. People were afraid of them and they were able to dominate the government.…
I see a heavily fortified city. Surrounding the city are tens of thousands of Turkish soldiers that I belong to. We are armed with crossbows, shields, and swords.…
Ishmael experienced the whole process of becoming a child soldier. He was actually selected by the government army to become a boy soldier. The new recruits like Ishmael were put through training to prepare them for real war. The lieutenant would give them speeches to change their mindset and make them believe the rebels are the enemy. For example when the lieutenant was talking to them…
The struggle between Greece and the Ottoman Empire can be dated back to the fifteenth century. The Ottoman Empire found itself fragile after the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century, giving Greece an advantage to gain their independence from the Turkish Muslims. Nationalistic fervor spread among the Greek population, strengthening their will to overcome the rule of the Ottomans. From such tension rose a great war among the Greeks and the Ottomans, with the intervention of France, Russia, and Great Britain. This defensive union granted the Greeks with their independence in 1830. Although the Turkish Muslims thought of Greeks as simple drunkards and brigands, other critics saw them with heroic character, and the Turks as the ones who have stolen…
Prior to the New Kingdom in Egypt, the country’s military was an unprofessional group made up at different times of peasants, Nubian and Greek mercenaries and the King’s personal troops. In the New Kingdom, this changed dramatically. For the first time Egypt had a standing army, and being a soldier brought prestige and social standing as it had not done in the past. With the advances in the way the army was made up, there were also major advances in the equipment they used. For the first time body armour was used, as well as the sickle sword.…
Analyze the cultural and political changes and continuities in the formation of national identities in ONE of the regions listed below form 1914 to present. Be sure to include evidence form specific countries in the region selected…
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 sultan was the supreme authority in both a political and a military sense. Administrative and military power were centralized under the bey, who was only a tribal leader, tribal law was before Muslim law. The Ottoman authorities were Sunni Muslims. The sultan assigned duties to a supreme religious authority, who then maintained a system of schools to educate Muslims. There were some who believed in Sufism or other doctrines, but the government allowed it as long as they were still loyal to the empire. Non-Muslims had to pay a head tax since they were exempt from military service. The Ottoman Empire was divided into four main occupational groups: peasants, artisans, merchants, and pastoral people.…