Songhai use the Niger River to their advantage, where there were able to use as a trade route. The Songhai Empire also converted to Islam. Askia Mohammad was the leader of the Songhai Empire. The Empire increasing got stronger which gave them dominion over its neighbors. The fall of their empire was losing resources and death of leaders.
Although he championed Greek civilization, he developed no appreciation for the achievements of the Persian Empire he opposed. He demolished one of the great powers of the ancient world without replacing it with a culture that demonstrably improved the livers of its people. In addition, his model of kingship, which exalted an aloof, militaristic, divinely inspired monarch, blended West with East but benefited neither. Finally, Alexander’s conquests, for all their brilliance, were personally motivated. Despite his love for Greek culture and his desire to fuse the Greek and Persian worlds, he never thought seriously about establishing political and economic institutions that could have helped unify a realm stretching from Macedonia to Egypt and from Greece to
What impacts did the Hyksos have on New Kingdom Egypt? The Hyksos impacted this era in Egyptian history through many significant cultural and technological developments. The foreign kings, who adopted the titles and regalia of the Egyptian pharaohs, dominated Egypt for most of the Second Intermediate Period. Frequently referred to as ‘Asiatics’ by the Egyptians, the Hyksos originated from the Middle East and extended their political and economic influence as far as Cusae in Middle Egypt. The actions of the Hyksos forced the Egyptians to become more conscious of security, adopt military policies, and reform the Egyptian army.
It created social, economic along with cultural and ethnic borders and relations reshaping its state borders due to the American Independence War fought by the Spanish, British or France. Indian, French, Spanish, African and even Canadian populations are described and put in the larger context of the evolution of what became the United States. Different interests, cultures, languages and mentalities form what we know today as on the most multicultural state. During the year of 1763, it was multicultural ethnics in America consisting of the Frenchmen, Spaniards, Natives and Africans. France and Britain both wanted power in North America.
These raids spread the territory from the Middle East, to Africa, and finally to Spain (Document C). The religion spread just as quickly as the raids did so many people were introduced to Islam and many joined in. The next reason why Islam spread so quickly was because of the major trade routes around Mecca. Mecca was a major trade city for many people and the center for the caravan trade. Many traders would enter Mecca and encounter
This religious schism meant that the Muslims were often much more willing to ally against one another then with each other; for example by 1098 the Crusaders held an alliance with Egypt against the Turks. It also meant that Islam had no counter against the notion of ‘crusade’, a jihad was impossible with such disunity. When we combine their effect in the Crusader states in the future such as in 1187 we find this significant. This disunity was not helped by the power vacuum at the time, 1054 was often described by historians “as the year of deaths of sultans and caliphs”, such was the disunity that in
After Suleyman and Akbar the Elite’s in charge for example Aurangzeb starting taxing those who where Non-Muslim, and in the Ottoman Empire this happened as well. Both powers eventually declined after Akbar and Suleyman. In being religiously diverse in widespread areas there was one similarity between the two Empires. In both empires in the golden age they did not mind other religious practices going on. Although the Ottomans did tax them for being Non –Muslim they still were unharmed.
Subsequent rulers continued the expansion. The ruler of the Ottoman Empire after its rise assumed the title of Sultan. The Sultan also assumed the role of the Muslim Caliph. The Ottoman Turks were fierce fighters, supplementing their Muslim troops with an elite corps of converted Christian slaves, the Yeni Chery (new troops) or in English, Janissaries. The progress of the empire was explosive.
The journalists and professors which the majority was of Islamic decent were very objective and just brought out the facts. I thought that the off screen narrator had a perfect tone for what was being spoken about and summarized the facts quite nicely. I do how ever get the sense of optimism from some of the journalists and professors for a modernized society with the best from the east and the west. I don’t share the same optimism I think too much history is entrenched in their culture and as a people they don’t know or are scared to rid themselves of the fundamentalist beliefs because it has failed them in the
But why was it able to become so big, so fast? There were four main factors that caused Islam to spread so quickly: military success, economic trade, religious appeal, and political order. Perhaps the major reason for the swift spread of Islam was raids followed by military conquest. Land controlled by Muslims expanded greatly in a relatively short period of time (about 120 years). Why?