heels of the Mongol destruction of Islam’s most important city and capital of the Abbasid Empire‚ Baghdad‚ eliminated Islam’s old political order. Nonetheless‚ these two catastrophes prepared the way for new Islamic states to emerge. Of these‚ the Ottoman‚ the Safavid‚ and the Mughal dynasties ultimately grew powerful enough to become empires themselves. The most powerful‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ occupied the pivotal area between Europe and Asia. They embraced a Sunni view of Islam‚
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The Ottoman Empire is one of the largest and longest lived of the great empires of the Middle East. The Ottoman Empire survived for more than four centuries until it was finally dismantled at the end of World War I in 1918. The Ottoman Empire provides a direct link from the early modern period. At its height of power‚ the Ottoman Empire controlled a huge amount of territory‚ in the Middle East‚ North Africa and southeastern Europe including Greece‚ Hungary‚ the Balkans‚ Romania and Bulgaria. The
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stay out of the old world. But this seemingly complete disregard for world politics did not mean that the United States had no territorial ambitions of its own. On the contrary‚ for the latter half of the 19th century‚ the U.S. continued to expand. With the Louisiana
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The long nineteenth century brought about extensive challenges to the traditional societies of Asia‚ as Western European imperialist nations rapidly industrialized and expanded their global spheres of influence through imperialism and colonialism. The three players in this war of modernization: China‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ and Japan‚ were confronted with the paramount need to modernize and adapt to this new reality of Western dominance or risk being colonized themselves. While all three pursued programs
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Russia in the nineteenth century Government & Society: * Autocracy (a system of government with one person with total power) was a system that was on going in 19th century Russia. It was led by the Tsar. * Beneath the Tsar were The Court‚ who were leading landowners and members of the government. * Below them were a small group of businessmen and traders. * The majority of the population were Serfs who were servants attached to land owned by a lord. They were required to
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OTTOMAN EMPIRE: 1.The Ottoman Empire was the Islamic world’s most important empire in the early modern period 2. long conflict (1534–1639) between Sunni Ottomans and Shia Safavids 3. the Ottoman Empire was the site of a significant cross-cultural encounter a. in Anatolia‚ most of the conquered Christians converted to Islam b. in the Balkans‚ Christian subjects mostly
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THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE Introduction The Ottoman Empire was the one of the largest and longest lasting Empires in history. It was an empire inspired and sustained by Islam‚ and Islamic institutions. It replaced the Byzantine Empire as the major power in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Ottoman Empire reached its height under Suleiman the Magnificent (reigned 1520-66)‚ when it expanded to cover the Balkans and Hungary‚ and reached the gates of Vienna. The Empire began to decline after being defeated
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19th Century England During the 19th Century‚ England was transformed by the industrial revolution. It was also a period of social and political unrest. Levels of sanitation were improved‚ as was the quality of housing. During this period‚ living standards were raised and it was a relatively peaceful period. It was a period of prosperity and expansion for the British Empire‚ but it also saw the decline of England’s power. England was the first nation to industrialise. It had a dense population
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Sevet Pamuk proved his passion for digging deeper into history through the use of writing the article “The Ottoman Empire in the ‘Great Depression’ of 1873-1896‚” published in the Journal of Economic History‚ in March of 1984. Pamuk points out that the view of the economy and changes in domestic production levels of the Ottoman Empire during the years 1873-1896 are misrepresented due to the lack of consideration of sufficient evidence of the impact that trade‚ external forces and the internal forces
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The Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful empires during the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1453‚ the conquest of Constantinople gave the Ottoman Empire control over what had been the Byzantine Empire. The conquering of Constantinople gave the Ottoman’s control of the Balkans. The Ottomans next large conquest was the Arab world. “With the rise of Mehmet II‚ called “the Conqueror (Fatih) ‚ the Ottomans began a new era of conquest that extended the empire’s rule ... over the lands of the Islamic
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