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Early Cultures
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Amorites, Babylonians, Cainites/phoencians, Aramaeans, Ugarit, Hebrews, Nabataeans, Palmyrans
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Armaeans
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Armaic language.. common dominate language
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Ugarit
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Culture center... first alphabet.. 30 letters
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Hebrews
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End of the 13th century bc
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Palmyrans
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dominated the land trade routes
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Arab-Islamic phase
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predate islam.. by the founding and spread of arab power.
Internatal struggle between followers of muhammad for power and leadership of islam. used conquest to divert internal stugges..ll north africa |
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Fatamid Caliphate
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azahar university
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Ottoman empire
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conquoered most of the arab land
did not conquor morroc.. scared of other empires yemen free from ottoman control mertantive economic system.. want to export as much as possible.. little to no import.. get as much gold Euopeans countires didnt like this. Napoleon invades egypt which is the beginning of the end for them |
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Ottomans position on religion
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wlecomed arab conquors to save them from byzantine persecution from turkey
joint contributions to arabic culture no forceful conversation to islam under early arab/muslim rule.. had to pay army tax |
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Umyyad Caliphs
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leader.. dynastic rulers.. founded in damascus.. invaded spain.. isabella pushed arabs out of spain
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Abbasid caliphs
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baghdad
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three factions
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1. baghdad, fatamid caliphate, and caliphate in spain
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caliphite in spain
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helped by differened centers of rule
flurishing of arabic culture.. cross cultural exchange |
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Urban people
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-within city walls
-lived in different religious communities -few suburban neighborhoods |
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rural people
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peasants lived in villages with village head called a shykh
nomads (bedouin)... cattle and camel herding.. if urban rulers were weak they could control the trade and pilgramge routes.. |
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social elite
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urban nobles.. religous scholars.. alim/ulama... intermediary btw ppl and rulers
military cheifs merchants |
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sunni
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follow quran
traditions and sayings of muhammad.. called the hadiths supported the abbasid claims to the caliphats |
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shii
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believed tha ali was the true air to muhammad.. believe ali and his decendants had the right to rule... follow the quran and the sunna arrpoved by the imam
people ruled by divied right.. they had the power to interpet the quaran |
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ali
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he was a caliph.. ali was the cousin and son in law of muhammad... married fatima, muhammads daughter
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sunna
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actions of the profit
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imam
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one who leads in praryer
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Christans
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(oritenal) nestorian.. syrian.. gregorian armeians.. maranites.. coptic
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1054
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division between the easter byzintine and weathern church
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Eastern church
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patriaracan.. head.. spit again.. greek orthadox church and russian orthoox church
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Weasturn
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pope.. head... spit again.. reformatiion..
roman chruch.. misionary movment to middle east. by jesuits as a part of canter-reformations protestants.. missionary movment it middle east |
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jews
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orrental-middle east
saferdiz.. spainish drivento N africa and trikey.. ashkhenanzi.. german |
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Fatimid dynasty
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shii
strong navi caliph moved to cairo (enter of empire control all of weathern muslim world ecept spain end of their rule allowed crusader to come in and invade |
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Turkish rule
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-not muslim
-patoral people from asia, monolia and western china -needed land to graze flocks Ghznavids and seljuks |
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ghaznavids
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india
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seljuks
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able to control dif factions
...after divion of empire |
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Crusades
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people from eurpoe
only controlled around the coast created kindoms introduced european goods/colonization by europeans effect future trade/expansion/colonization by europeans created a negative immage of euro[pean as people who invade and destroy |
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Mumluk
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controled egypt
not invaded by mongals |
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Mumluks
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slave generals.. slaves who were trained to fight.. convert freed and bought their own slaves
rulers by mumluk sultain.. named by previous sultan.. not inherited |
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Timur
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monoglian turk who invaded and controled contral asia and expanded east and west... after his death everything divided in 3 sections... iran.. ottoman state and Egypt
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Constantiople
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center of roman empire until 1453.. 1204.. falls to crusaders.. nominal power after that.. Orthodox church center
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Justinian
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law coods.. bais of laws throughout sociiety
hagia sophia.. influentical buildings.. influence mosque building |
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Muhmud II
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continued military reforms of Selim III
Janissares rose up in revolt which led to civil war while mumud was still leader.. the janisaies were inctonrol and military reforms were ended through a number of treaties the ottoman empire lost control of land and power in its provinces |
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Iran
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gave up land to ottomans
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Nadir
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economic conditions got worse
defeated ottoman army.. got supplies.. began to build a navy tried to reconcile shii and sunnies.. this didnt work by the time of his murder he had become a tyrant man trial leaders fought for the thrown |
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Qajar dynasty
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aga muhammad beat out all other triabal leaders.. Tehran became the capital because that was where he lived
expelled the russians from the north |
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Aga muhammad
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four passions.. power, averice, reveng and hunting
able to establish justice throughout the country side murdered by his servants |
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fath ali
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had to fight for the thrown his oncles left for him
created a gov where the shah's (leader)s word was the law sppeased the religious leaders irans was never truely unified |
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Fath ali and Europe
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russia began to conquor land in the caucasus.. iran saw that land as theirs
iran became allied w/ france france did not support irans claims and caucasus so iran sided with british british came and trained irainan army.. Russo-pursian war.. iran lost a lot of lant to russia |
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Fath ali and reforms in iran
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army.. traied like europans army
used modern weapsons improved-tax system and justice system |
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Ottomans power
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-destroyed the byzantine empire
-lasted 600 yrs -ruled over three continents |
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Events which led to ottoman power
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battle of mansikert.. seljuk beet the byzantine army.. opened anatolia to turkish settlement
two great trade rotes met here.. now controled trade.. beak bysantine empire anatolia became a turkish muslim area |
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ottoman army
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basic unitis.. 10, 100, 1000
janisaries siaphis |
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janissaries
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bagan as captured slaves who were converted, educated in the palace school and trained to fight
-well trained and feared soldiers -became the term for the infantry men |
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siaphis
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regular cavalry
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Mehmed II
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reorganized the goverment, tax system and economy.. captured constantinople.. had to repopulated the city.. chritians and jews were allowed to created their own enclaves
-after the fall of constantinople.. the size of the empire doubled |
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Suleiman
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ruled for 46 years.. "the law giver"
-taught to rule the empire -ibahim.. suleimans childhood friend, became great vizierate, got to power hungry and was killed =expanded in balkands, hungary,rhodes, attached vienna but withdrew before winter french saw him as an ally against HRE -north africa except morroco -invade iraq, iran and arbian penisula |
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Selim II
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inherited a huge empire.. copmplex gov.. kept law/tax system of conquored land
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1547-1699
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-empire undergoing changes
-sultain still in power but not asstrong -woman in the royal family exters more influence -princes not sent by local rulers and gain eperience -less expansion meant less money -pop growth about 40% in villages and 80% in towns -influx of gold and silver from american colonies led to price inflation -new taxes -decentrailized gov -local leaders did not try to rebel against Ottoman rule they just hadmore power and sent on less money to istanbul few revolts.. Syria, Egypt.. war was also changing .. moremoney and more sophiticated weapons |
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Mehmed Korprulu
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grand vizir to mehmen IV
-put in place reforms, centrilized gov, miltary expansion (europe) -his work was carried on by his son ahmen -almost captured vienna -in 17th century the venetians began to gain land in greece |
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treaty of Karlowitz
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-venice got to keep southern Greece but gave up athens
-sultans give speical treatment to christians -power of russians recognized -beginning of european expansion toward istanbul -ottomans still had power |
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1703-1774
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weak ottoman leaders.. challenged by russia and ustria.. 5 sultans who lacked education.. 1711-1739.. lots of fighting and little lost of terrritory
war with iran ottomans not willing to use modern weapsons.. increase in trade 1740 treaty with france which gave france trading and diplimatic rights in istanbul treaty of kuchuck kainarji- russia gets the crimea ottomans get moldavia, wallachis, and aegean islands |
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phanariot
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greek or hellenized christian in ottoman service
-they no longer had to convert to get gov jobs -increased there power in gov |
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Twlevers shiism
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believe that 12th imam muhammad al-mauntazer disappeared in a cave and will return as a savior of humanity
-chalenged the caliph (suni) -attracted many groups who disapreed with the caliph or wanted there own power -usually a minority in a sunni state |
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Safavid Iran
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shii
sufi ordered in arabil calle dsavis.. became shii began to control iran defeated/conquored -turkish tribes -chritian geogians -other sufi(warrior) groups |
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Ismail I
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created a shii state based on twlever shiism
-bealieved that he was divine reincarnation -worshiped as a saint during his life time -forced conversion shii -friends and family ran all aspects of gov -much of iran was temporarity conquored by selim I. this decrease dismails power.. people less believing his supernatural powers |
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Abbas the great of isfahan
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bought empire back together
direct rule over the provinces happy peacyful time gov got money from taxes on land very committed twelver shiism-gave a lot of money new system of roads beautiful buildings becane to manufacture.. persian carpets, textiles, leather work, etc created a large trade network after abbas leaders began to focus more on internal issues |
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Hussain
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eaily influenced (which is why he was put in power)
no drinking no fun, coffee, dancing, chess persecuted religious minorities spent a l;ot on religious pilgramages started drinking |
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Selim III
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Ottoman emperor
wanted to restore power of the sultanate and regain control over the provinces decreased the power of the grand vizirs |
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semim III and the army
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begain by training and outfitting 600 men like europan limitary
changed the way the army was pain (wages- wanted to go to war less) changed the reponsilities fo the offices Nazam I-jadid (army of the new order) janisarries refused to fight with new army without the new army they were very unsucessul against the serbs and prussians |
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selim III and education
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new schools.. engineerin
imperial naval enginerering school.. 40,000 sailors shows they too can be modern |
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Semim and foreign policy
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created embasies in land on paris, vienna dn berlin
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Selim III and bureaucracy
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decreased it.. got rid of man of the jobs
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Selim III and economy
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increased taxes
siezed gold and silver to make new coins stole them to make 100% gold and silver.. not mised with other meltel melted it down to make the new coins.. inflation occured |
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Ottomans and European methods
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book ilistraions, landscaping painting and architecture influenced europeans but not influenceed by music and litterture
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Egypt
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mumluks gain power again.. napolean invaded on behalf of selim III to destroy the mumluks.. his real reason was prob to attach the british-india trade route.. also he may have had plans to capture istanbul
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Napoleon
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Invaded july 2
battle of the pyramids defeats mumluks while napolon was in cairo the british fleet destroyed his feet in alexandria dn he was cut off from supplies .. put down the rebeleion in cairo ottoman see the invasion as an act of war and raiseed an army and join with the russian and british to fight him napoleon invades syria and captures gaza and jaffa murdered 3000 ottomans prisoners napolen retreats to egypt.. abadnoned his troops.. went to paris.. became leader of france in a coup d'etat france stayed in egypt uned 1801 1802 peace between napoelon and selim III |