Anatolia

In 1832, Greece became an independent kingdom under the protection of the Great Powers after decades of fighting for emancipation from Ottoman rule (Kokkinidou and Nikolaidou 2004:156–157). Greece was in a unique position to receive support from Britain, France, and Russia due to their past as a great civilization in Classical times. In fact, the Great Powers saw Greece’s fight against the Ottomans as a war between civilization and barbarism. Some even went so far as to view it as a continuation…

This research paper will describe the first few Crusades and how they happened.The Crusades were a series of many battles caused by different religions fighting over their differences.In these battles, the religions fought to try to make their religion the superior religion and bring the other religions down.The sides of these battles consisted of Muslims, Jews, and Christians.Many things happened in each Crusade including the capturing of Jerusalem, the fall of the county Edessa, the treaty of…

Byzantine Empire were very much alike to the Ottoman structures. Their creative outlines of windows, doors and tops offer qualities with the Italian building design and their fundamental structures found in mosques were embraced from the populace of Anatolia. The Ottomans gathered diverse thoughts from different nations and made them into one brilliant piece which is the reason building design was a noteworthy part of Ottoman society. An alternate principle progression in the Ottoman Empire…

Romana ended with the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius in 180 A.D. After his death, slowly but surely the Roman Empire started to decline. Emperor Diocletian separated the Empire into two sides. All the Greek speaking lands such as Greece, Egypt, Anatolia, and Syria became known was the East. While the Latin speaking lands like Italy, Gaul, Britain and Spain became known was the West. The West was constantly being attacked by Germanic tribes and eventually fell in 476. The East was able to…

Modern Paganisms such as Wicca serve primarily to fulfil the spiritual needs of believers in a manner supporting their pre-existing ideological convictions; as is shown by the diversity of opinion regarding the sacred within this spectrum of New Religious Movements. There are a multitude of sects within Modern Paganism, all claiming roots in the primordial past. In reaction to the growth of secularism throughout the 20th Century, various groups self-organized based upon a revived ‘natural…

European Powers. The Unionists had no other choice but to hope for a better future and to look for a strong European alliance. In addition, Russia was the greatest threat to the Ottomans, Czar Nicholas II was looking for more territory in “Eastern Anatolia, the straits, and the Ottoman capital itself, Russia openly sought the demise of the Ottoman Empire”3. Therefore, the Ottomans found what would ultimately draw them into the Great War, a European…

Definition of ecological problems in today’s context is taken as environmental problems and the most important ecological problem is the air pollution. This issue has a long history and is impacting on the health of the individuals since 500 BC. Various human activities of that time have emerged and evolved with the passage of time and thus extended environmental issues. Air pollution is one of the major ecological problems. Environmental problems were first discovered at the time of ancient…

textiles were highly sought after in Europe. There are many accounts of ambassadors who beheld and later wrote about the dazzling garments. The reign of the Ottoman Empire lasted from 1299 to 1922. The Ottoman Empire was quite vast and “spread from Anatolia and the Caucasus across North Africa and into Syria, Arabia, and Iraq.” The sheer size of the empire easily rivaled the land mass ruled by the Abbasids. Their conquests, particularly in the…

Many societies in the world were linked in various ways between the 1200s through the 1500s. They were all caught up in various webs of influence, communication, and exchange. Large-scale political systems brought together a diverse group of people with all different types of lifestyles. Religion was able to bring people together and also divide them. Methods of commerce and trade linked people in a different way. Trade allowed people to be able to spread ideas and concepts easily through…

In a series of brilliant maneuvers and diplomacy, he gradually pushed out all the European occupiers, won support for the cause of Turkish nationhood throughout the country, preserved Turkish sovereignty in all of the Anatolia landmass, and demanded to be respected on equal terms of the old Empire, and Ataturk was able to proclaim, in 1923, the new Republic of Turkey. He lead the new government as President and them Prime Minister, during his time Turkey was still a medieval…