Spain’s decline was brought on due to lack of productivity, growth, and poor leadership. Spain emerged quickly only to spare power to the Ottoman Empire. The gratitude of the Ottoman’s accepts all people to expand their population, and showed heroism gathering all followers to their renewed way of life. Children trained as early as age of six for education to advance modern technology. The Ottomans used all available resources to bring about knowledge for advancement, and with the new followers they could advance knowledge and teachings and grow productively.
Spain forms followers of Muslims background and gain power and confidence with the help of the Muslims. Muslims were well educated, understood moving through lands, and the knowledge on distributing water to the land for crops. Roman Catholics regain power forming strong military and governmental powers. Spain conquers land in Peru and Mexico which is rich in silver and gold, and as they conquer lands they build empires in the Philippines
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“Between 1500 and 1600 the Ottoman sultans succeeded magnificently in the consolidation of the empire” (Sivers, 2014, p. 472). The Ottoman Empire gained popularity had a strong devoted army and using a variety of fire arms and weapons in battle. Taking in any religions or race expelled by the Spanish. Sivers states “Hungary was seized by the Ottoman Empire taking in a vast multiethnic and multireligious state of some 15million inhabitants extending from Algeria in the Maghreb to Yemen in Arabia and from Upper Egypt to the Balkans and the northern shores of the Black Sea” (Sivers, 2014, p. 473). Ottomans developed the Millet system allowing people to have their own beliefs if they were fighting with the Ottoman’s during war. In this period, they are forming organization in cities and
From 711-1492, Christian Spaniards lived under Moorish rule until eventually, the Christian Kingdoms took over during the Reconquista. The conflicts between the Muslims and Christians created a militaristic culture in Spain that surpassed that of any other European nation. Furthermore, being trained militarily was often exclusively attributed to the nobility however, in Spain, “many young men knew these skills and used them to their advantage.” Without a doubt, recently reconquering their homeland motivated the Spanish to a basis for expansion and conquest that most other European societies were lacking. In addition, the voyages of Christopher Columbus led to discovering the New World which undoubtedly contributed to added interest in conquest. Eventually, each conquest further raised Spanish hopes for fame and
The Ottomans and Spanish built flourishing empires based on different philosophies from 1450 to 1800. The Ottoman and Spanish were two powerful empires during that time. During the building of the two empires, the Spanish and the Ottoman both developed similarities in their social, political, and economic structures. The Ottoman took control of Europe, while the Spanish saw it as easy to monitor new lands. The different tactics employed made the both empires flourish. For instance, the Spanish were not tolerant of religion. They conquered other areas with the aim of converting Christians to Islam, if they refused, they would be killed. On the other hand, the Ottoman leaders incorporated leaders of diverse culture
During the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church was the dominant force in Western civilization. As the Dark Ages came to a close, the monarchies of Europe began to consolidate power; providing an alternative power base. With the Protestant Reformation came another blow to the influence of the Church. Spain, the forerunner in the Age of Discovery, was a fervently Catholic country. During the 16th century, the monarchy combined the forces of "cross and crown" in its imperial policy; much to the dismay and ultimate destruction of the indigenous peoples of the New World. Through an examination of Aztec polytheism and the Catholicism of the conquistadors, comes the central role of religion in the successful conquest of New Spain.
The 19th century set the stage for different policies that lead to the extending of America’s power, which is defined as imperialism. Imperialism started for different reasons like the Americans wanting the U.S. to expand or explore the unknown land, or even some feared existing resources in U.S. might eventually dry up. The reason imperialism started doesn’t really matter, but more of what it caused. Imperialism lead to Cuban assistance, the addition of Hawaii and Alaska to America, and Yellow Journalism.
Spain was a global superpower in matters of wealth and their successes stemming from the arts and academia to travel and territorial conquests. Of these accomplishments, their most prized achievement was acquiring a heavy portion of Latin America where their influence originated from the northern borders of Mexico deep into South America. They abused the resources they found, cheated the natives all the while demolishing their culture and population. In turn this gave birth the rise of a number of rebellions by the oppressed against the conquistadors to take back the land and implement laws and social standards that benefited the people and return to them the rights that they had been stripped of.
The ruling elite of the Ottoman Empire were unique, because they were a foreign influence, which shaped the way they were perceived and how they displayed their identity. This was because; they were Devirshirme, recruits of the child levy system. They served in either the palace service or the Janissary military system. Their status as the ruling elite was bittersweet, filled with pros and cons. The Janissaries formed a powerful interest group, which allowed them to project their power to the Sultan as well as the people.
Much like that of the Byzantines before them, the Ottoman Empire served as a link between Europe and Asia, and greatly benefited from the profits of the exchange that was perennially flowing over these geographic boundaries; this era came to be known as the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire. Although there can be many identifications and definitions for the means by which the Ottoman Empire was able to exert such a powerful degree of influence, military right, and cultural dynamism. It will be the purpose of this analysis to discuss and analyze the means by which a continual process of centralization can ultimately be understood as one defining force, that allowed the Ottoman Empire to thrive throughout this period of the “Golden Age.”
In this day, they only way people knew how to spread religion was by violence, and though the Moors were rather gentle with the overthrowing of the Visigoth army and the conquering of Spain, this violence eventually led to Spain becoming one of the most prosperous countries of 2nd millennium Europe.
Back when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, the new monarchs of Spain, were ruling, Spain was split into two distinct regions and was extremely disunited. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella originated from the two regions Aragon and Castile, respectively. Ferdinand and Isabella married to unify the two regions but the two remained separate politically and economically. The Spanish Empire had no sense of nationalism which could be dangerous if any group of people wanted to take over Spain and the Spanish people had no pride in them to defend themselves. The Spanish Catholic Church proved to be the kindling for the feeling of national identity in Spain. To fuel the fire, Ferdinand and Isabella completed the Reconquista. The Reconquista had been
Spain was under control of the Roman Empire for more than 700 years. Consequentially many cities reflects historically events and structures from Rome.
Many people think of the Ottoman Empire as a Turkish Empire; however, it was made up of numerous people with different ethnicities. The millet system, created by the Ottoman Empire, was established to allow people of different ethnic backgrounds within the empire to govern themselves; however, they were still known as the Ottomans. When the idea of self rule and independence arose, many minorities within the empire began to revolt and many of the revolts happened to be successful. “Although the millet system gave people their rights and allowed them to rule themselves, European nationalism dictated that the ethnic minorities of the Ottoman Empire should not have a Turkish sultan. Nationalism meant that they had to break free of the Ottoman Empire and be led by their own people.” Moreover, specific revolts were taken place within the Ottoman Empire and they were supported by many European Countries. The Greek Revolution in 1821-1832 supported by European powers resulted in the establishment of an independent kingdom of Greece. The Serbian revolution, strongly supported by the Russians, started off with a violent struggle but later ended with a ceasefire and became a young monarchy 5. Much later on, even the Turks began to revolt against the Ottoman Empire and the
The Middle East historically has been a region fundamentally built around the concept of religion. The Ottoman Empire dominated this region for 600 years of which they would utilize Islam as a way to justify the leadership of the sultan to create the most power of all Islamic states. The Ottomans exhibited the most power as an empire prior to the concept of nationalism. The Sultan Sulayman the Great became synonymous with the height of Ottoman power by fully establishing an imperial empire in the Middle East during 1520 to 1566. (Perry,111). Despite other sultans attempting to follow in his footsteps the death of Sulayman marked the beginning of the decline of the Ottomans as an empire. As leadership in the Middle East grew worse and worse
Spanish powers dominated and influence much of the “known world” during the 16th Century. Spanish leader King Phillip II had reasons to eliminate their arch-rival England. His reasons were to convert the Protestants in England to the Church of Rome and to eliminate one of the major sea-fearing rivals for economic wealth.
Around 1293 the chieftain of a nomadic Turkish tribe named Osman, founded an empire that would endure almost six hundred years. As this empire grew by conquering lands of the Byzantine Empire and beyond, it came to include, at its height, all of Asia Minor, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Egypt, Crete, Cyprus, Palestine, and North Africa through Algeria; parts of Hungry, Austria, Russia, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Oman, U.A.E., and Syria. The elite tactics and fearsome fighting of the well trained Janissary Corps helped make the Ottoman Empire one of the largest in the world's history. -1- The first "army" of the Ottoman Empire was made up Gazis, Turkish faith fighters. They were effective against small countries and principalities, but were not always reliable. (J.F. VonHamer-Purgstal 771) For example, the original Ottoman state was very close to Constantinople, the capital of the struggling Byzantine Empire, it was not captured until 1453. At the time of its formation the Ottoman state could not defeat the defending armies of Constantinople due to its small and untrained army. (Bossenbrook 504) In addition, when the Ottomans went to face the larger and more powerful army of the Tatar Empire, under the leadership of Tamerlane, the Gazis deserted. Left with an army made of Christian vassals, the Ottomans fell to the Tatar army. (J.F. VonHamer-Purgstal 771) Since the Gazis proved to be unreliable Sultan Murad I around 1371 thought it necessary to build up an army that would have superior fighting power and be loyal to him. He began to build up the power of various non-Turkish groups in his service, particularly those composed of Christian slaves and converts to Islam. (J.F. VonHamer-Purgstal 771) -...