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King Of France French King
1,526 wordsThis movie talks about the crusades to gain Jerusalem back from the Moslem army that was lead by the great sultan Saladin. At the beginning of the movie the Moslems hear about the misfortune Moslems that are treated badly in Jerusalem, consequently, Saladin takes over Jerusalem in a battle with the Christian leader Rhene who was in charge of these actions of killing the Moslems. Rhene's widow goes to Europe seeking help from all the Christian kings, claiming that Moslems kicked the Christians ou...
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784 wordsBy 350 A. D. , Constantinople was one of the worlds greatest capitals. The city was located between Asia and Europe, making it a very diverse and strategic place. The many bodies of water surrounding the peninsula gave Constantinople many trade routes as well as protection. The famous walls were also built to further strengthen security. Constantinople eventually rose to a beautiful city of strength and wealth. Its Greek heritage separated itself from the West with their religion of Eastern Orth...
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Several Beautiful Sights In North Sumatra
525 wordsI believe that every country has its own unique and beautiful sights for people to visit. For example, in my country, Indonesia has many popular destinations for visitors. For decades, tourism in my country has become an important sector in foreign exchange earner. A lot of significant progresses have been made to meet the demand in tourism sector. One of the most popular areas that provide visitors with the beautiful sights is North Sumatra. North Sumatra is one of the biggest provinces at Indo...
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Political And Social Ottoman Empire
1,279 wordsThe first genocide of the 20 th Century occurred when two million Armenians living in Turkey were eliminated from their historic homeland through forced deportations and massacres. For three thousand years, a thriving Armenian community had existed inside the vast region of the Middle East bordered by the Black, Mediterranean and Caspian Seas. The area, known as Asia Minor, stands at the crossroads of three continents; Europe, Asia and Africa. Great powers rose and fell over the many centuries a...
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Austro Hungarian Empire First World War
2,097 words... the British in the North Sea. Germany and Austria also had military agreements. When the First World War was fought, it was to be fought by all powers because they had made the military plan cooperatively and very few people inside or outside government circles expected a long and destructive world war 13. As a result of the armaments race, all the European powers felt they were prepared for a war by 1914. There were two kinds of nationalism in 19 th Century Europe, the desire of subject peo...
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Religious Tolerance Ottoman Empire
1,055 wordsAll empires constantly evolve, declining and rising in status. Many empires have collapsed, only to start again under a different name. Like all empires, the three Muslim Empires, the Ottomans, Safavid's, and Mughals have faced this inevitable state. Although each individual empire is different, they each have similarities in their reasons for decline. Whether it is social, religious, economic, or political reasons, the empires, like many others, have fallen. The Ottoman Empire, founded by Osman...
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The Janissaries Of Ottoman Turkish Empire
955 wordsThe Janissaries was an elite corp. in the standing army of the Ottoman Empire from the late 14 th century to 1826. Highly respected for their military prowess in the 15 th and 16 th centuries, the Janissaries became a powerful force to be reckoned with on the battlefield, and in government administrations. The janissaries were organized into three unequal divisions: the combat, b"ol " ukhalki, and sean. The Janissary corps was originally staffed by Christian youths from the Balkan provinces who ...
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Geoffrey Use Of Sarcasm To Describe His Characters
1,743 wordsGeoffrey Chaucer used sarcasm to describe his characters in "The Canterbury Tales. " It will point out details that are seen in the book that help explain how he used this sarcasm to prove a point and to teach life lessons sometimes. I will also point out how this sarcasm was aimed at telling the reader his point of view about how corrupt the Catholic Church was. Chaucer uses an abundance of sarcasm, as opposed to seriousness, to describe his characters in "The Canterbury Tales. " Chaucer did no...
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Haidar Ali And Tipu Sultan
2,386 wordsHaidar Ali and Tipu Sultan The book Confronting Colonialism: Resistance and Modernization under Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan by Irfan Habib is a compilation of essays devoted to Mysore under Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan. It is part of the remembrance of the second centenary of Tipu's last stand against the British at Srirangapatnam observed by the Indian History Congress. The idea, one assumes, is to underline the need to research the historical space inhabited by the two rulers, and to make a more u...
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Holy Roman Emperor Pope Urban Ii
2,375 wordsThe crusades were military expeditions launched against the Muslims by the Christians in an attempt to regain the Holy Land. They took place between 1095 A. D. and 1270 A. D. It was one of the most violent periods in the history of mankind. The starting point of the crusades was on November 18, 1095 A. D. when Pope Urban II opened the Council of Clermont. On November 27, outside the French city of Clermont-Ferrand, the Pope made an important speech. He called upon everyone to help the Christians...
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Ring Was The True Nathan The Wise Jewish
673 wordsENLIGHTENED JEWS Moses Mendelssohn, who was born in 1729 in central Germany, came from a poor Jewish family. He was fortunate to get a traditional Jewish education with some philosophical input. At age fourteen, he moved to Berlin to continue studying with his rabbi. While in Berlin he learned French, Italian, English, Latin, and Greek on top of the German and Hebrew he previously knew. Mendelssohn began to write and publish some philosophical essays in German. To some he was known as the Jewish...
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East And West West Africa
1,499 wordsIn Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta In Said Hamdun and Noel King s book Ibn Battuta in Black Africa, they point out some especially important contributions still lasting to modern day studies of society. In the year 1331 c. e, the world s major civilizations were in fact growing and advancing at an astonishing rate. Historians know quite a bit about a few cultures and empires of this time. These societies such as the Romans, Greeks, and Chinese to name a few kept written records of daily life and events....
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Radin Mas Ayu Decided To Marry Pangeran
590 wordsLong ago in the kingdom of Java, there lived a young Sultan and his brother named Pangeran Adipati Aug. An able and strong man, the young Pangeran was much loved by his people. One day, during a palace celebration, the Pangeran fell in love with a beautiful dancer and decided to marry her. However, his brother the Sultan objected because she was a commoner and a palace dancer. In spite of this, the young Pangeran decided to marry her secretly. The marriage bore them a beautiful daughter who they...
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1,802 wordsLibya: A Deep and Rich History In the beginning of the 20 th century Libya was a country that was not to populate nor did it have much power. The name Libya was given by the Italians, who had a major influence in Libya from 1911 until the end of World War II. At the turn of the century the Ottoman Empire was in control of Libya, which at the time was spilt up into three parts. One part was around Tripoli called Tripolitania in the west. The second was around Banghazi called Cyrenaica in the east...
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Traditional African Military Power
886 wordsMali, One of the Greatest African Civilizations Mali s Culture and Government After the kingdom of Ancient Ghana, the next great West African Empire to emerge was the kingdom of Ancient Mali. Ancient Mali and Ghana shared a number of different features, however they also were extremely distinct from each other in many ways as well. For example, unlike Ghana, a great deal more information and written records about the kingdom of Mali still exist. With the resources that have endured a much better...
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Younger Brother Northern China
1,304 wordsTwelfth-century Mongolia is as far back as a search for their origins need go. A group of peopl's speaking the languages of the family called Mongol who had long demanded the attention of Chinese governments then lived there. Generally, China played off one of them against another in the interests of its own security. They were barbarians, not much different in their cultural level from others who have already crossed these pages. Two tribes among them, the Tatars and that which became known as ...
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283 wordsThe Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was founded in the late thirteenth century and last until the early twentieth century. This empire was one of history s greatest military empires (564 McKay, Hill, Buckler) that was centered around the present day country of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire, once, at its peak had controlled a vast area extending from the Balkan Peninsula to the Middle East and North Africa in the middle of the sixteenth century. This was accomplished under the rule of Suleiman the...
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Islams Black Slaves Ronald Segal Great
963 wordsIn the service of the Sultan Islams Black Slaves: A History of Africa's Other Black Diaspora Ronald Segal 241 pp, Atlantic Books At a time when the United States, crusading Christianity's last outpost, is again mounting its mangy charger, along comes another book documenting a dark, half-forgotten and deeply unsavoury aspect of Islam. Until Ronald Segal, author of the excellent and similarly panoramic survey of the Atlantic slave trade, The Black Diaspora, began to pick at the scars Arab raiders...
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Greatest Rulers Of All Time Rulers Of All Time Sueleman
510 wordsSueleman was a Sueleman Sueleman Sueleman was a Sultan from 1520 untill 1566. He was a very fair and just ruler, at least to his loyal subjects. He also was a great military ruler, and was loved by his army. He had a brilliant mind, and the Ottoman Empire greatly benefited from it. Sueleman was a great, perfectly rounded ruler. Sueleman, also called Sueleman the Lawgiver, came after his father, Suelim, also known as Suelim the Grim by his subjects. Suelim the Grim was very cruel to his subjects,...
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Francis Of Assisi Prisoner Of War
3,007 wordsSt. Francis of Assisi was born in Umbria in the year 1182. He was a child every father hoped for, he was filled with life, a determined and courageous individual. He was gifted with rather good looks, qualities that attracted friends and a gift of leadership. His father was an extremely wealthy merchant in Assisi. But this son, his favourite, was the one who broke Peter Bernardone? s heart. The boy turned on his father, and in a vicious event that eventually resulted into a public scene. St. Fra...
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