13c. Understanding Disraeli’s response to the Eastern Question. Using the passages and your own knowledge‚ assess the view that Disraeli achieved little in his foreign policy regarding the Eastern Question beyond boosting his own reputation. The Eastern Question was a Disraeli’s foreign policy regarding the Eastern question is questionable and there is conflict amongst historians whether his foreign policy was successful or whether he simply passed aggressive and unnecessary policies in a vain
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Jeffson’s Eastward travels also provide an example of the Orient being depicted in a formidable light‚ when he becomes preoccupied with the idea that there may be a sole Chinese survivor of the cloud‚ an idea which causes him to ‘flush with wrath’ (p. 154)‚ because he deems it as ‘detestable as death’ (p. 154). Although Jeffson at this point claims that he no longer wishes to find any human alive‚ the fact that he directs his delusions and hostility towards a Chinese man in particular is significant
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ROME The Roman Empire (Latin: Imperium Romanum) was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization‚ characterized by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe‚ Africa‚ and Asia. The 500-year-old Roman Republic‚ which preceded it‚ had been destabilized through a series of civil wars.1 The main popular reasons for the decline of Roman Empire are discussed in the following paragraphs. The most straightforward reason for
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Attila the Hun was born in 406 CE in Pannonia. At the age of 12‚ Attila was sent as a child hostage to the Roman Court and in return‚ the Romans sent Flavius Aetius to the Huns. In 433 CE‚ Rugila‚ the king of the Huns died. He left the empire to his nephews‚ Attila and Breda (Attila’s brother). The Huns had invaded the Eastern Roman Empire during the reign of Rugila. To avoid further invasion‚ annually‚ the Roman Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire paid the Huns certain amount of money. In 435 CE
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variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time; its political structure; the patronage of its dominant family‚ the Medici;[5][6] and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.[7][8] Jacob Burckhardt best describes the renaissance as the prototype of the modern world‚ for it was the period between the fourteenth and fifteenth century in Italy‚ when the base of modern civilisation was
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Gallipoli (Feb 19 1915 – Jan 9 1916) was an Allied campaign to capture the Turkish capital Constantinople and wrest control of the strategically invaluable Dardanelles straits‚ thus allowing supply lines to run through the the cut-off Russians. The first planned attack was a British/French naval assault on February 19 1915. It bombarded Turkish artillery along the coast but had very little effect. A new attack was launched on March 18 targeting a bottleneck in the Dardanelles. It suceesfully destroyed
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Egypt vs Byzantine: Trading Goods Some similarities between Ancient Egypt and the Byzantine Empire were that they both traded in Syria and Constantinople‚ and use them both as main forms of trade sources‚ as well as using many forms of animals as transport such as donkeys and mules as well as transport ships to deliver materials and other trades goods between different countries that are separated by vast rivers where little canoes cant cross. Some differences between the two is the form of trade
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The First Crusade was cause by conflicts between the Christians and the Muslims for the Holy Land‚ Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the holy city for all three groups of different faiths; the Christians‚ the Jews‚ and the Muslims. For the Christians‚ Jerusalem was where Jesus was crucified and resurrected. For the Muslim‚ Jerusalem was the place where Muhammad had ascended to heaven. For the Jews‚ it was their God ’s city and it was the sit of Solomon ’s temple. The main idea of the First Crusade was good
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From 1520 to 1566 in eastern Anatolia when he died Suleiman I the Magnificent had changed the Empire immensely. The sons of Suleiman‚ who ruled the Ottoman Empire who once were able to call each other brothers‚ now call each other traitors because each son was consumed by greed and an obsession for power now that their father is out of throne and only one may rise up to the hierarchy. They each had plans to skyrocket the empire in their own very different ways. And so no matter who became the next
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The Crusades were important to the people of Europe for several reasons. The most important reason is that they were an attempt to defend against Muslim conquests of Christian lands. The Crusades also provided many opportunities to the people of Europe that ultimately contributed to many improvements of their society. I personally think that the Crusades brought about accomplishments that could not have been achieved otherwise such as effects it produced economically‚ the political effects‚ and the
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