Anatolia

expectations he had against the Persians. Alexander wanted to fulfill his father’s conquest plan as well as fulfilling his own by expanding the empire. Alexander’s expansion of the empire first started with the Battle Granicus River “a battle in northern Anatolia in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians’ Greek mercenaries in 334 B.C.E.”(Kidner et.al, 98). Along with this battle, it led to other battles such as Issus and Gaugamela to conquer areas that the Persians possessed. At the end…

perverting key processes by pulling them out of context and forcing them into a contrived chain of events (Hanioglu, p. 1). “It is often assumed,” Turkish professor and scholar, M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, writes, “that the emergence of the Republic of Turkey in Anatolia, and of the neighboring nation-states in the surrounding territories of the disintegrated Ottoman polity, was the inevitable and predictable result of the decline of a sprawling multinational empire,” (Hanioglu, p. 1). This retrospective…

out of the 118 elements on the periodic table, silver is the best reflector of light. Prior to 1965, all U.S. coins were about 90% silver. History Mining In about 3,000 B.C., which is more than 5,000 years ago, silver was first discovered in Anatolia, which is modern day Turkey. In about 1200 B.C., the center of silver production shifted to Greece’s Laurium mines, where it continued to provide the silver needed for coinage. Spain, in about 100 C.E., became the silver production capital…

Hunting was a very important element of survival because the animals were the main source of gathering food and materials. However, in different periods and locations, hunting meant differently. In the Paleolithic era, survival was the priority, but the weapons and tools were all made from stones which resulted hunting was extremely hard and dangerous. In the dark caves, Paleolithic artists recorded the scenes of hunting by painting. Hall of Bulls, discovered in Lascaux, France is one of the…

Nikolaos ho Thaumaturgos). He had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him, a practice celebrated on his feast day―St Nicholas Day (6 December Nicholas was born in Asia Minor (Greek Anatolia) in the Roman Empire, to a Greek Family, during the third century in the city of Patara (Lycia et Pamphylia), in present day Turkey, which was a port on the Mediterranean Sea, and lived in Myra, Lycia[ (part of modern-day Demre, Turkey), at…

The Ottoman Empire was one of the flourishing empires in Middle East in the period between from 1299 and 1924. The Ottoman Empire overextended from Southwest Asia to Europe and Northern Africa, hence it was a significant trading route (Alderson 20). Several diverse ethnic groups and religious groups settled in the empire. Ottomans Empire flourished until the time the First World War began. Nevertheless, just as any other empire, the Ottoman Empire was meant to collapse t some point. This can be…

Kingship, as an institution, has existed for millennia and been the foundation of most of the world 's greatest superpowers. From the British Empire to the Pharaohs of Egypt, kings dominated nearly all of written history. Never was this truer than in the cradle of civilization itself; Mesopotamia. These early peoples pioneered nearly every idea ever conceived regarding kingship, ever since the great Gilgamesh embarked on his adventures with Enkidu in one of the oldest stories still in…

in Athens. King Philip resigned in 336-359 BCE. When Plato died around 348, his nephew Speusippus became captain of the Academy, and soon after Aristotle sadly left Athens. He ventured to Assus and settled at a city on the northwestern coast of Anatolia (present-day Turkey), where Hermias (a graduate of the Academy) was ruler. Aristotle became a good friend of Hermias and eventually married Pythias. Aristotle helped Hermias to create and build an alliance with Macedonia, which made the Persian…

The Armenian Genocide, started on April 24, 1915 and lasted until 1918. It was known as the first genocide of the modern world and contributes to the understanding of the nature of violence in modern history. To understand the nature of violence in this genocide, there must be a clear interpretation of the meaning. The World Health Organisation defines violence as ‘the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or…

The event occurred between 1095 and 1291. The circumstances and living conditions in the early 11th century were meagre. The quality of life was all dependant by wealth, power and status. If in the upper class, you were considered a noble, would sustain all privileges and rights, whilst if you were a part of the lower class, you were considered a peasant and would be apart village life. The health and hygiene during times were very poor, almost everyone would be ridden with disease due to lack…