Monday: Worked on Chapter's 11-12 Presentations
Tuesday: Worked on Chapter's 11-12 Presentations
Wednesday: Started Chapter's 11-12 Presentations
Thursday: Continued Chapters 11-12 Presentations (My Group Presented on the Russia Empire)
Friday: Continued Chapters 11-12 Presentations
Turkish Empires Rise In Anatolia
- Questions
- Explain the effect of Seljuk and other Turkish groups had on the middle east and eastern Europe.
- How did the Crusades shape the relationship between Christians and Muslims for the future?
- What causes Genghis Khan and the Mongols to be so powerful and what effect did they have on the world?
- Abbasid's
- Led by a caliph, the Muslim religious and political leader
- Had ruled east of the Byzantine Empire since the 700's
- Had struggled to maintain control of territories
- Lost Spain, then Morocco, then Tunisia, then parts of Persia, then Egypt
- Seljuk's
- In the 1000's, they conquered most of Anatolia
- They came closer than Constantinople than anyone else before
- The First Crusade
- Created by Pope Urban II in 1095
- Purpose was to drive Turks out of Anatolia and recover Jerusalem from Muslim Rule
- In 1099 the Crusaders captured Jerusalem and set up a Latin Christian Kingdom
- Seljuk Return
- After a century of Christian Rule, a small part of the former Seljuk empire fought back
- A war between the West and the Muslims, lead Saladin, lead to the Muslims recapturing Jerusalem
- Eventually a truce between Saladin and King Richard the I of England was signed
- Persian recruiting
- Seljuk rulers courted the support of their newly conqueror Persian subjects
- Boghril Beg chose the Persian city of Isfahan to be the capital of his kingdom
- Persians became loyal supporters of Seljuk's
- Persian Learning
- The Seljuks admired Persian learning
- When they arrived in Southwest Asia, they were unfamiliar with Islamic cut lure and religion
- They looked to their Persian subjects for guidance
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