Anatolia

after himself. Shortly after his defeat of the Persian Empire, Alexander passed away. His Empire separated into smaller kingdoms. Mostly run by his top ranking generals. Ptolemy I Soter founded the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, Palestine, and S.E. Anatolia. Seleucus I Nicator founded the Seleucid Empire centered in Mesopotamia and extended east to the Indus River was the largest of the successor kingdoms or diadochi. In Macedon…

What happened during the Armenian genocide still today affects those who survived that horrific experience and even the family members of those victims who didn’t make it through and of those who did survive the genocide. The reason for the genocide was that the Ottomans believed that the Armenians were a problem in Turkey ands they needed to get rid of them in order to save Turkey and also because they were non-Muslim and believed them to be second-level and this is what led to the mass murder…

Republic of Rome expanded quite rapidly, the system in which it governed with became less and less viable. Between 284 and 44 BCE, the map in our textbook shows that the republic went from controlling solely Italy, to conquering Spain, Gaul, Macedonia, Anatolia, as well as parts of the middle east and northern Africa. And because their oligarchic political system only worked in the context of a simple city-state, the incredible amount of new land could not be effectively controlled.…

Cyrus the Great is one of the most successful empire builders of all time. Most conquerors of that time were known to defeat civilizations and strip people of money and goods by violence and then enslave most of them. Cyrus on the other hand “would rule through persuasion and compromise rather than force and humiliation”. He treated leaders with honor and respect. Cyrus even permitted deported people to return to their homelands. Unlike most conquerors that forced their people to practice the…

Derderian argues how sexual violence and gender-specific acts were central aspects of the Armenian Genocide. Derderian explains how after the murder of the Armenian leadership and military, Ottoman authorities and Ittihadist supporters sent surviving Anatolia Armenians to the Syrian desert for extermination. During the ethnic cleansing, Armenian women faced intense violence due to females representing the “genetic and cultural continuity” of a group. Derderian states how rape, kidnapping, sex…

Everyone but Bohemond accepted taking the oath . In May 1097, the Crusaders and their Byzantine allies attacked Nicea (now Iznik, Turkey) which was the Seljuk Turk capital in Anatolia. After capturing the city due to them surrendering in late June, the Crusaders marched on into Anatolia along with the Byzantines and captured the great Syrian city of Antioch in June 1098 despite relations between the leaders of the Byzantine and the Crusaders worsen . After a number of internal…

Cross-Cultural Interactions Communities would start to interact more with one another during this time period. Starting with the Nomadic Turks that would travel from one place becoming the sultans of areas in Persia, Anatolia, and India. I would not always sacrifice the people of these areas, but if allowed them to be apart of there communities if they convert to the Nation of Islam. At the same time, a Mongol Empire was thriving who often had an alliance with the Nomadic Turks. The nomadic…

achievements of Osman. With a series of military successes against the Byzantine, several leaders were attracted to come under Osman's leadership. With increased forces, Osman and his son Orhon were able to expand towards the Northwestern parts of the Anatolia. In 1326, Orhon was able to capture the city of Bursa under the hands of the Byzantine which he further made his capital of his emerging state. He founded a "madrasah" and even struck his own coins just to confirm his authority. With the…

expanding quantities of dark Africans in West Africa, driving them over the Sahara, and offering them in North Africa. From that point, a large portion of these slaves were sent out to distant Asian goals, for example, the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia (in present-day Turkey), Arabia, Persia (show day Iran), and India. The trans-Saharan slave exchange developed altogether from the tenth to the fifteenth century, as immense African domains, for example, Ghana, Mali, Songhai, and…

make “important finds that established the character of the pre-Mycenaean Bronze Age in Greece and formed the basis of later studies.”() And her celebrated excavation Tarsus, where she and her team were looking for possible links between Greece and Anatolia. Alongside her many notable excavations hetty goldman had just as many achievement she received through her career as an archaeologist. One of her first achievements is that she was the first woman to hold Harvard’s prestigious Charles…