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Groups Of People Armenians
366 wordsA genocide is the organized killing of a group of people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence. As a rule the organizing agency is the state, the victim population is a domestic minority, and the end result is the near total death of a society. The Armenian Genocide conforms to this simple definition. In 1915 the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire proceeded with plans to eliminate the Armenians. By 1918 it had succeeded in destroying most of the Armenia...
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Religious Turmoil Inflicted By King Charles Personal Rule
367 wordsFrom 1630 - 1642, during the heart of King Charles I reign in England, over 25, 000 dissatisfied Puritans migrated across the Atlantic Ocean to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. That was the single largest migration of any group to America. What triggers that kind of overwhelming relocation? Numerous English subjects were highly dissatisfied with the rash religious decisions of Charles I. While Parliament reacted to Charles economic and political changes, the Kings subjects reacted to his religious ...
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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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Allied Powers Mass Murder
1,304 words... tured, then hanged or shot. Next, there were mass arrests of Armenian men throughout the country by Turkish soldiers, police agents and bands of Turkish volunteers. The men were tied together with ropes in small groups then taken to the outskirts of their town and shot dead or bayoneted by death squads. Local Turks and Kurds armed with knives and sticks often joined in on the killing. Then it was the turn of Armenian women, children, and the elderly. On very short notice, they were ordered t...
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Won T Nine Days
1,992 wordsOf All People, I Survived As I stand today at the age of 60 I tell my story of suffer and agony. Years when I lost my beloved ones, and from then on saw no light shine upon me or the following days that led to the future. Those days passed by like months and years: a vivid picture of hell. I am not ashamed to share my story for it is the truth that nobody was willing to hear, and those people were the ones who showed no sympathy towards us. They were the ones who hid the true story of the Armeni...
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Crowned King Latin States
1,367 wordsBaldwin of Boulogne I, brother to Godfrey of Billion, Count of Edessa and King of Jerusalem. Baldwin was one of the eight chief lay leaders of the first Crusade (Setton 21). He died in 1118, which marked an end of an era. Baldwin was the last of the original leaders of the firs Crusade (Setton 408). He founded the first Latin state in the east, the county of Edessa. He founded and transformed Jerusalem into a monarchy state. Helped in the capture of Tripoli. Established the county of Tripoli int...
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