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The Armenian Holocaust was a time of pure and utter despair, it was a brutal genocide that killed approximately 1.5 million people. It took place in the Ottoman Empire; the Turkish Armenians wanted to make the empire thoroughly Turkish and they especially wanted to get the Christian Armenians out of the empire. As a result, there were massacres and deportations that ended in many deaths of horrific exterminations. The exterminations consisted of torturing, enslavement, and deportations with no…

for some individuals, it appears to be coherency of worldview along with intensity of belief and certainty in this worldview (whatever it may be), which appears to contribute positively to well-being. Thus, not only can strong belief in God provide psychological benefits, but also can strong nonbelief in God (Galen, 2015). Uzdavines’s found that individuals who were more “closed” to the existence of gods (i.e., sure there are not any) reported less struggles than those who were more “open.” Is…

Hotel History The Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal has a rich historical and cultural value. The property dates back to 1896 when it first opened as the Royal Hotel. Located at the center of Budapest, at that time this hotel was the focus of Budapest’s social and cultural life and the main artery of the Hungarian capital. (Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal, 2015). The hotel as its know now was extensively renovated an d reopened in 2003 as the five-star Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal. With the highest number…

By the time Venetian Commander Pietro Mocenigo reached Greece, the Ottoman Turks had greatly expanded in the eastern Mediterranean and were threatening Venetian interests in the region. This was a true clash of opposites; the Venetians were a Christian, seafaring people and the Ottomans, conversely, were Muslims who preferred to travel and fight by land. The only thing these two empires seemed to have in common was their penchant for trading, a similarity that became one of the prime ingredients…

Armenian Genocide "Who, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?" Hitler once said this when addressing the Nazi army about the upcoming genocide of millions of Jews. A genocide is the systematic killing of a group of people based on religion, race, or culture. Genocides are crucial to our past, as well as crucial to our future. However, not many people are aware of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide was the mass killing of 1.5 million Christian Armenians. People…

It is hard to write the histories of empires’ declines, and even harder to write the history of a three centuries-long unrelenting decline. The Ottomans seem to have made it an Iliadic tale to decline for such a prolonged span of time that one finds oneself remarking on the question itself in favour of another that seems to assume more significance: It is no longer why the Ottoman Empire has eventually disintegrated. It is why it has survived for so long in the first place. Much ink has been…

The first major cause of the epic collapse of the Ottoman Empire was the tremendous loss of territories and land through multiple military campaigns by European countries. Russia, in particular, had a growing desire to capture Constantinople and gain control over the Black Sea after its embarrassing defeat in the Crimean War. Although Russia did not capture Constantinople, during a time of uncertainty and instability in the Ottoman Empire, Peter the Great came to power and strengthened Russia’s…

Constantinople: for centuries the city served as a symbol for both the imperial might of the East Roman Empire and as a major center for Orthodox Christianity. The conquest of the city by the Ottoman Muslims in 1453 signaled an era of Muslim supremacy in the Balkan and Greek lands and the subsequent decline of Christianity in its hinterlands. As with any cataclysmic event in history, the fall of Constantinople and the consequences that followed are documented and presented differently in “The…

World powers always need to be growing. If a country does not, they will either collapse in on itself or become over run by other nations stronger than them. In “The Rise of the West” one finds that when China and the Ottoman Empire could not afford to advance and or shut out the rest of the world. They did not maintain their statuses of dominant world powers . It is true that they were still strong but their lack of advancement eventually caught up to them in the long run. China was truly…

Introduction- The Ottoman Empire was first established as a small state in western Turkey during the Seljuk reign. At first they would pillage and capture the workers of other Turkish villages around them and eventually ending all other local Turkish dynasties. The empire then grew to include many areas in what is now present day Europe to and it eventually became one of the largest and most powerful and one of the most enduring empires in the history of the world. After 1400 the Ottoman Empire…