Anatolia

Islam was created by the Arabic empire whom had minimal political unity within their own Islamic civilization creating patterns solely off their religion, in places such as India, West Africa and Anatolia. Some political and economic views these civilizations shared were the introduction of additional trade routes, untraditional commonalities, and the Islamic faith being forced upon them. Cross-cultural exchanges encountered within the spread of the Islamic religion are, trusted Islamic trade…

authority in Anatolia to change. Turkification in Anatolia has started after the Battle of Manzikert. Turkification is the assimilation of cultures and identities into various historical Turkic states. Many Turks started to come into central Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert which led Byzantine Empire into an economic crisis. There were many Muslim states in Anatolia competing with each other for territory. Ertugrul Gazi, Osman I`s father, led his group to move towards to the west Anatolia.…

The Ottoman Empire, was an empire created by some Turkish Tribes at the end of the 13th Century, in the North-Western Anatolia. The Ottomans were known as warriors for the faith of Islam, who were inspired and sustained by Islam and Islamic Institutions. The Ottomans most successful period was between the 16th and 17th centuries. During this period, the Ottoman Empire expanded out over three continents. This covers what we know today as Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia,…

These messages invited these Greek city-states in Anatolia to secede from their Lydian ruler (173). The Greeks refused Cyrus’s invitation to secede and to become his ally (173). The Ionians actually liked being under Croesus’s rule, because he was a fair and mild ruler. They also believed that they could…

This paper however will focus on what seems to be the most prominent factor playing into the Persians desire to campaign into Europe, the rebellious uprisings along western Anatolia. These uprisings brought attention to the Persian kings that the poisonous relationship that the Greeks played in their influence over those in Anatolia, thus causing the Persians to attempt cut out the problem at the source by directly attacking the source of the uprisings, which in turn were a catalyst for the…

The Sumerians’ Egyptian rivals took advantage of the annual flooding of the Nile for their regular harvest, later exporting a large portion of their produce to the Roman Empire. Some time later, the Hittites settled in the golden, rolling hills of Anatolia (modern Turkey) and the Phoenicians of the eastern Mediterranean loaded olive oil and spices into their merchant ships to trade throughout the Mediterranean.…

patron saint of Anticoli Corrado, Italy. St. Victoria’s date of birth and what country she was born in couldn’t be found, but she lived in Picenum, Italy, so to my conclusion she probably was born in Italy. She was a noble woman with her sister Anatolia, which is also a saint. Victoria and her sister were supposed to marry a noble pagans, but her sister convinced her to dedicate both their lives to God and remain single. That is exactly what Victoria did. Pagan suitors began to make deals with…

of resistance, most notably at the Resistance at Van. But none of these can be considered anywhere close to signaling a civil war (Suny 939). The land of Anatolia was once shared between the Armenians and Kurds, but with the national aspirations of the Turks, they were in their way. The Turks were at the point where they were able to take Anatolia for their homeland if they wanted to instead of having Central Asia. The Ottoman Empire needed to do something to survive. Annihilating the Armenians…

Dating back to 1050 A.D Europe and the Middle East use to be religiously divided between the Christian states and the Muslim states. These two states had never gotten along always resulting in conflicts. Years later an emerging powerful group from central Asia, known as the Seljuk Turks, began to reign over the Middle East claiming lands for their own. The Byzantine empire, once known as the most powerful Christian empire in the Middle East, had fallen to the command of the Seljuk Turks in 1071…

Ottoman Turks’ first appearance The loom of the Ottoman came upon after the decline of the Seljurk Turks’s empire. The arrival of the first Ottomans, alias ghazis (Turkish warriors or raiders), to Anatolia (formerly called Asia Minor) was intended to evade the forces of Mongols. At first, the Turkish tribes were nomadic pastoralists but when the Seljuk Empire’s power was slowly falling apart, the Turks, under the rule of Osman, began occupying, invading other territories for power and wealth…