Anatolia

These negotiators drafted up what is known as the Sykes- Picot agreement. According to this agreement, Britain would acquire most of Iraq, while the French would acquire Syria, Lebanon, and parts of Anatolia. Russia was originally included in the agreement but then retreated due to the Russian revolution. The independent Arab state promised to Hussein was in this agreement designated as a state of confederation of states lying in the two zones of British…

Social Media and Cultural Change In modern times, culture and social media have become so symbiotic that it is difficult to talk about one without considering the other. Is social media good for a given culture or cultural change or is it bad? Due to the complicated nature of culture and social media, it is very difficult to make such judgments. There are a few conclusions that one can draw from this relationship. Cultural change can be rapid or slow and it seems with the world-wide popularity…

At the end of World War II, 1947 the Jewish State of Palestine established a state of Jewish sovereignty, the United Nations in November of that same year voted to establish the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state. That was the creation and establishment of Israel. Israel is known as the “Holy Land”, a country of rich history and distinguishable conflict. It is a nation state known for its incredibly notorious history with war, conflict, and strength. Through history religion has played…

Tiglathpileser- 744-727 B.C.E., created a core army of professional soldiers and most formidable subject peoples, at it’s peak the Assyrian state could have mobilized half a million troops, with bowmen, slingers, armored spearmen, cavalry with spears or bows and four person chariots (76) Significance- Tiglathpileser created a radical new military strategy for the time that helped bring the empire to it’s peak. Instead of farmers or joining the army for land compensation or slaves that were…

Throughout history society has had people who were thought of as better than others, and that is because of the concept of social classes that was made hundreds of years ago. But it was not like that in the beginning of humanity during the Paleolithic era. Around 8,000 B.C.E. people were nomads who believed in nature or nature spirits, but as time progressed the ideas of what was around them that could not be seen got more complex. By around 4,000 B.C.E. what historians think was the first…

Midterm Essay The Ottoman empire at it’s height was a large empire that was multicultural multilingual due to its control over most of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa (C&B 38). During the 17th century the empire contained many provinces and a variety of vassal states that were later absorbed into the Ottoman empire (Ibid). While the Ottoman empire remained prominently strong from the start of its formation; during the 1850s the empire started to go through some changes the…

2200 BCE China’s Xia Dynasty rises Minoan society rise 2000 BCE Indo Europeans began to build settlements in the Italian peninsula A sophisticated society of Minoans arose from the island of Crete 1800 BCE Bronze metallurgy brought by the Etruscans in Rome 1766 BCE Xia Dynasty decline China’s Shang Dynasty rises 1628 BCE Volcanic eruption on the island of Thera destroyed almost everything 1600 BCE Mycenaean society rises Mycenaeans began trade with Minoans and learned about…

They built a strong civilization and produced warrior-kings who came to rule areas around Mycenaean cities from about 1600 to 1100 B.C. • Trojan War: A war fought between Mycenaeans and Troy, a trading city in Anatolia. According to the legend, the war was caused by a Trojan prince who kidnapped the wife of the Greek king, Helen. Greek Culture Declines Under the Dorians: After the fall of the Mycenaean civilization around 1200 B.C., another group, Dorians, moved…

The first problem is that these scholars are not a hundred percent positive that the site where they are excavating is, in fact, Troy. The location where Troy is thought to be located is in the northwest region of Turkey (formerly known as Anatolia). While many scholars agree that this site is the historical landmark, Troy, it is certainly still open to debate. This is the first and most important problem that is encountered. With findings dating all the way back to the Bronze Age all the way…

Ibn Battuta’s travels and their impact on history In 1325, after the Crusades, a young Moroccan Muslim called Ibn Battuta, set out on the necessary pilgrimage to Makka. It was to become an odyssey from one unknown world to another. Shams Al-Din Abou Abdallah Muhammed Ibn Abdallah Ibn Muhammed Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Yusuf Al-Alawati Al-Tanji Ibn Battuta Ibn Hamid Al-Ghazi (Ibn Battuta) was born in Tangier in the north of Morocco in 1304, during the ruling time of the…