The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. |
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... Empire ) to the Levant . By 1516 , Otto- man forces had seized Damascus ... Ottoman naval power . Like Kublai Khan in China , the Turks had developed a ... the Ottomans had established a unity of official faith , culture , and language ...
... Empire ) to the Levant . By 1516 , Otto- man forces had seized Damascus ... Ottoman naval power . Like Kublai Khan in China , the Turks had developed a ... the Ottomans had established a unity of official faith , culture , and language ...
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... Ottoman system of recruiting future janissaries from Christian youth in the ... empire was showing signs of strategical overextension , with a large army ... the Ottomans , just as France had worked with the " infidel " Turk against the ...
... Ottoman system of recruiting future janissaries from Christian youth in the ... empire was showing signs of strategical overextension , with a large army ... the Ottomans , just as France had worked with the " infidel " Turk against the ...
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... Ottoman Empire ( London , 1938 ) ; H. Inalcik , The Ottoman Empire : The Classical Age 1300-1600 ( New York , 1973 ) ; M. A. Cook ( ed . ) , A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730 ( Cambridge , 1976 ) ; M.G.S. Hodgson , The Venture of ...
... Ottoman Empire ( London , 1938 ) ; H. Inalcik , The Ottoman Empire : The Classical Age 1300-1600 ( New York , 1973 ) ; M. A. Cook ( ed . ) , A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730 ( Cambridge , 1976 ) ; M.G.S. Hodgson , The Venture of ...
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World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
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The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
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