Anatolia

Wars can be called as military acculturation. They played a significant role in the transmission of military technology from one to others. After the introduction of gunpowder and firearms into the battlefields, they became major elements to empires in order to make real their military and politic goals. Without having cannon, artillery and handgun, these states were vulnerable against enemies since attack and defence were made with firearms. Thus, it can say that the firearms in early modern…

the Macedonian Empire and sparking Hellenistic civilization. But what if he died before he could become “the Great”? When Alexander was twenty two, he fought and defeated the King Darius III and the Persians at the Battle of the Granicus River in Anatolia. He charged into their ranks, and came very close to death after a blow to the head. His bodyguard arrived in just in time to kill the attacker and save Alexander. But what if he didn’t? What if the attacker struck Alexander a second, fatal…

initiated into it these mystery religions constituted faith practices which scholars argue that they had direct impact to the shaping of Christian sacramental gatherings. According to Latourette mystery religions chiefly rose in Egypt Persia Syria Anatolia and all their beliefs and rites formulations were centered upon the savior who died and rose. (Latourette 1953:19) Indications of the mystery religions that existed which resembles the Christian religious beliefs formulations to note existed…

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric H. Cline, deals with the sudden and unexpected collapse of various interconnected civilizations throughout the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. Some of these civilizations include Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Greece, Cyprus, Syria, and Egypt. The author, Eric H. Cline, is an archaeologist, historian, and professor at George Washington University, who also finds the Late Bronze Age to be his “favorite period in ancient history.” That being said,…

Children are a valuable tool in building and strengthening empires. If you can teach a child your history and have them grow to respect it, they will optimistically fight for it and be united by it. Arguably the success or failure of a nation depends largely on how that nation deals with both its internal and external conflict. Focusing on these two premises, those who study history can evaluate cultures best on how they promoted culture and how the state dealt and interacted with outsider and…

The Minoan civilization on Crete that flourished during the Aegean Bronze Age from around 2600 to 1400 BC, has been a subject of study and imagination for centuries. From the ancient Greeks who told tales of a creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull to Sir Arthur Evans, who started to unravel the secrets behind the mythical Minoans around te turn of the twentieth century. With the unearthing of huge palaces, roads and temples in Knossos, and other parts of Crete in subsequent…

original sculptor remains unknown due to it being created such a long time ago. People have just being making educated guesses about why this was created. Some people say that it was to celebrate his victory over the Galatians people of parts of Anatolia which is modern Turkey. The war they are talking about was called the Galatian war which was a war between the Galatian Gauls and the Roman Republic.Who were allies with Pergamum in 189 BC.The war was fought in the center…

Whoa! Stop there! How would they of had the audacity to even think about doing that?! Anyway, they kicked it off by taking 300 Armenian leaders, professionals etc. and deporting them from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria and killing them. They also they slaughtered 5,000 minorities from their homes and off the streets (Dosomething.org). It was officially declared a genocide on April 24th that first year. To be clear with you it was a just a disconnection…

occupied Persia and then moved west slowly. Battle of Manzikert in 1071 CE is where the Seljuk Turks met Byzantine emperor and his army. The Byzantine emperor was killed, and army was destroyed. After taken over Byzantine the Seljuk Turks moved into Anatolia. Moving south again the were able to occupy the Holy Land. Religion played a role in the origins of the Crusades or Holy War. Pope Urban II called a meeting to deal with the religious issues, to free the Holy Land from the Turks. He…

all kinds of weaponry that they desired. The greatest of all war crimes committed during this total war was entitled the Massacre of the Armenians where more than one million men, women, and children were deported and forced to walk the roads of Anatolia. This was unique from past wars because of the civilian death toll it created. Most died of hunger or exhaustion while the people that fell behind, and were unable to keep up, were killed. This was the greatest act of genocide, or mass killing…