Armenia Research Paper

Armenia was an independent country in the fourth century AD. Armenia is well known for becoming the first state to making Christianity an official religion. Armenia was located in the Caucasus region. During the Caucasus region had been invaded and a new empire took over called The Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was a Turkish empire where there religion was Islam. The empire wants to convert everyone to Islam. The main problem was that the Armenians did not want to convert. The Ottoman Empire had created a new government, a self government. The empire saw Armenians as” infidels”. These “infidels” were treated as unequal, because they were Christians, they had to pay higher taxes. Armenians were denied having a role of being part of the Turkish government. They were also considered second class citizens. The main question that the Turks had for Armenians was, “Are you more loyal to the christian government more than the Turks government?”. Because of these questions the Ottoman Empire started to fall apart. When the nineteenth century rolled around. A …show more content…
They were ordered to kill Armenians, but they basically killed everyone in their way. They would drown people in rivers. Most people did not know how to swim so they would take you out by boat and toss you overboard. If you knew how to swim they would just simply find another way to get rid of your existence. They would also burn you alive in massive amounts of groups, use poison, drugs, throw people over cliffs, and crucify them.After the killing squads Turkey was filled with corpses. Mehmad Talâ ordered that all the corpses be gathered and burned. Children were spared from being killed, but were kidnapped from their families, converted to Islam, and given to Turkish families. Some women were killed and others were raped and became harems. The Turks moved into Armenian