Anatolia

spread their empire. Out of the history of Rome’s influential emperors, one of the most successful would be Julius Caesar. During his reign, the Roman empire expanded greatly, pushing its borders from only Italy and Spain to Gaul, Northern Africa, and Anatolia. These successes were only made possible by Rome’s superior system of roads, military training, and economy. All of these factors went into creating the Empire, one of most powerful forces of all time. A great Roman author, Virgil once…

The Christian Crusades Almost 200 years ago during the middle ages, the crusades wrested control over the Palestine Region from Selcuk turks due to a series of military incursions that were made up of christian armies from western europe. The control that the christian crusades had over the Holy land were tenuous at its best. Today, the crusades that Hollywood has put in our minds: glorious and righteous warriors in form of knights leading the crusades, anointed by god to save the Holy land…

Alex Greene December 5th, 2015 B2 The Phoenicians On my honor as a Brentwood Academy student, I have neither given nor received help on this paper. I pledge that the work on this paper unless otherwise cited, are mine and mine alone. The Phoenicians The Phoenicians were the jack of all trades of ancient times. They were strong in all suits of life. They possessed great abilities, invented and accepted new ideas, and were powerful politically. The Phoenicians…

The Ottoman Empire was created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia. The beginning of the Ottoman history was characterized by continuous territorial expansion. It grew in to the most powerful states in the world. The Ottoman Empire spanned more than 600 years and came finally ended in 1922 when it was replaced by…

Islam is one of the worlds popular religion, it had continued to spread quickly throughout the world since the beginning of time. Islam has dialed with the pressure of invasion, the movements of peoples, as well as the loss of Al-Andalus, the Crusades, the invasion of the Mongols, the movement of the Turks, and the conquests of Timur Lang. Just like any other religion, Islam was facing tests that changed and modified it in a specific cultural power and economic in the West. There are two…

The first part of the book deals with Ebla and the Early Dynastic (ED) period in Mesopotamia. At this time period they saw the first empires in the ancient Near East, and Ebla was usefully founded between coastal Syria and northern Mesopotamian cities. Exploiting on this location, rulers of Ebla created pacts with neighboring towns and placed tariffs on goods arriving to the city. Many of the extravagant goods were meant for the royal household; Podany describes the contents and effects of a…

The political difference between the universal power of the Egyptian pharaohs and the Mesopotamian emperors served as the most significant factor that influenced the varying degrees of stability of ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian society brought about by the type of ruler, along with each civilization’s religion, economics, and social structure. Mesopotamian society lacking the presence of the pharaoh led to the beliefs in violent gods who were feared instead of revered as they were in Egypt.…

Pope Urban II started the First Crusade to help Byzantine Christians, to manifest papal authority, and to provide redemption for Christian souls. Thomas Asbridge¹ in his book, The First Crusade, explains that in the advent of the First Crusade in 1095, the papacy was slowly recovering. In the events leading up to the First Crusade, Europe had undergone significant political and social upheaval. The Church was divided with Eastern Christians following Orthodoxy and Western Christians following…

almost parallels the experience of the Christian Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Though despite being territorially surrounded by, and economically and militarily inferior to, its Arabic and orthodox neighbors—mainly the Byzantines to the north in Anatolia, the Fatimid Caliphate to the south in the Nile river basin, and the Seljuk Empire to the east—the new kingdom enjoyed relative success and stability throughout the twelfth century. This phenomenon lays at the heart of my proposed research.…

Joy Bryce Macey, Michael Period 7 December 9th 2016 Salue! Comment ca va aujourd’hui. Il fait très froid et je n 'aime pas le. You have no idea what I just said do you? That’s because the way that language spread around the world, we speak English, not French. Wait, How did English spread across the world? There are two different theories, the Nomadic Warrior and the Sedentary Farmer theory. The sedentary farmer theory is correct because many scientists have proven it to be what happened,…