Help with history homework

[Snorri1234]

Think of all the time you have spent making this thread, and think where you would be if you had just started to do that assignment in the first place.

This thread took like 3 seconds to make and 5 minutes to get replies.

[Jenos Ridan]

maybe i have read it and i didnt know where it was

Do you have a text book for this class? It might have it in there.

I don't think I've ever used the Internet for classes except for big projects.

[mybike_yourface]

seriously...if you dont help f*ck you guys.

megadeath sucks. do your own homework.

[Minister Masket]

Why has no-one mentioned wikipedia yet?

[suggs]

Alright Paradice. I'm just going to copy and paste the sentences that i think are key.
And then maybe give you the benefit of my analysis at the end. Hurrah.

[suggs]

"Together the three empires possessed great military and political power"

most medieval empires, including the muslim/oriental ones were held together by MILITARY POWER. An effective king was often simply a king that won his battles, and had control of his generals.

[suggs]

"They built empires through military conquest based on the effective use of firearms. Each was ruled by an absolute monarch and drew revenues from taxation of agrarian populations."
so the importance of gunpowder/firearms. The system of government, of all three was ABSOLUTE MONARCHY. In theory, this meant that the king could do anything he wanted-complete power.
Often (though you should check this with these three empires) the absolute monarch would have a quasi-religious status, as in "God's Annointed Ruler".

All three raised revenue from farmlands ("agrarian populations").
This is relevant to how they ruled their empires, because without money, no king can pay his army, and without his army, he would be killed/deposed/severley weakened.

[suggs]

"Military leaders had a dominant role in the Ottoman state, a polity geared to war and expansion. The Turkic horsemen became a warrior aristocracy supported by control of conquered land and peasants. When their power shrank before that of an expanding central bureaucracy, they built up regional power bases. From the middle of the fifteenth century, imperial armies were dominated by Janissary infantry divisions composed of conscripted youths from conquered lands. Their control of artillery and firearms gave them great power; by the middle of the sixteenth century, they intervened in dynastic succession disputes. "

This bit basically sums up THE STRUCTURE OF POWER in the Ottoman regime.Again, it was MILITARISTIC-"a polity geared to war and expansion"-conquest was what the Ottomans were really keen on.
The horseman became the aristocracy (loosely parallel or equivalent to the Feudal knights of western Europe).
BUT ONE BIG DIFFERENCE between the Ottomans and western europe is revealed in that throw away line which is arguably the key phrase in the paragraph:
"when their power shrank before that of an expanding CENTRAL BUREAUCRACY". This is a very important "caveat" (which means qualifying sentence eg "evryone is rich APART from Tim-TIm is the caveat to the generalization "everyone is rich"). its a caveat because this article keeps banging on about the imporatnce of military power, but in fact ultimately it was the Ottomans development of a sophisticated centralized bureaucracy that kept the dynasty in power for over fivde hundred years.
This might be a point that is best made in your conclusion.

[ParadiceCity9]

well thanks suggs...except the assignment was due like 2 days ago

[suggs]

Firearms is mentioned again, so i guess that was important in the aristocracy keeping control of the regions.
That bit about the Janissary infantry is in fact suggesting a WEAKNESS in how the Ottomans ruled their empire. If the janissary were intervening in succession disputes, then the central government of the Ottomans was clearly getting weaker. In the zenith of Ottoman power (which it says was in the mid sixteenth century), no one but the Sultan (the King equivalent) would have been able to decide the succession. The fact that the soldiers could, fifty years later, shows that the Otoman empire was in decline.
Because,...you've guessed it!-the Sultan had lost control of his military.

[ParadiceCity9]

maybe i have read it and i didnt know where it was

Do you have a text book for this class? It might have it in there.

I don't think I've ever used the Internet for classes except for big projects.

This is actually the site with the outlines/practice quizzes and stuff made by the people who made the book. I don't think my teacher knows about it

[ParadiceCity9]

seriously...if you dont help f*ck you guys.

megadeath sucks. do your own homework.

f*ck you learn to spell megadeth how dave made it

[suggs]

well thanks suggs...except the assignment was due like 2 days ago

bugger. sorry mate. i assumed cos it was at the top of the forum it was still relevant.
apologies.
still, good excuse for me to crap on about history, which i love!
but seriously-stick the word "caveat" into your next assignment-historians love that sort of guff.

[Blitzaholic]

read the chapter.

lol


so did u pass it?

[wrestler1ump]

3 pages of piling on for no good reason. He asked a question. I don't know why you guys don't just answer it without the flames.

[Norse]

My pet tin-can is upset by this thread.

[ParadiceCity9]

read the chapter.

lol


so did u pass it?

if by pass you mean get full credit? of course

[suggs]

Good skills.

[Norse]

Yes. Very well done pardicecity.

Makes me feel even superior.

[Jenos Ridan]

seriously...if you dont help f*ck you guys.

megadeath sucks. do your own homework.

f*ck you learn to spell megadeth how dave made it

Here here. He should learn to think before he types. Probably some sore Metallica fan who's mad that his band hasn't made a good album in almost a decade.

[Jenos Ridan]

ya i know it doesnt matter but i kinda need to get into college

College is for pussies. Real men work a shitty job for most of their lives and get midlife-crisises where they buy a motorcycle and roam the country.

If I did that, I'd probably snap long before I could have a midlife-crisis and do somethings I might regret the day after it was all over.

Go to college; surest way to prevent midlife-crisis and make good money when you've got that degree.

Real men may break their backs for nothing, smart men learn to use their backs wisely and end up higher on the hog in the long run.

[silvanricky]

read the chapter.

don't be an ass to someone if you want help.

Why the f*ck should we read it if you're not going to take the time too? We get nothing out of it

So read it again. Or perhaps you could just wait until you cover it in class. Ask a friend, maybe.

why don't you read the chapter until you figure it out?

Think of all the time you have spent making this thread, and think where you would be if you had just started to do that assignment in the first place.

Do you have a text book for this class? It might have it in there. I don't think I've ever used the Internet for classes except for big projects.

do your own homework.

[brooksieb]

just look on wikipedia

[Snorri1234]

seriously...if you dont help f*ck you guys.

megadeath sucks. do your own homework.

f*ck you learn to spell megadeth how dave made it

Here here. He should learn to think before he types. Probably some sore Metallica fan who's mad that his band hasn't made a good album in almost a decade.

It's Hear hear.

[Jenos Ridan]

Did you understand what I was saying? I'd hazard to say yes! No need to be so anal-retentive, dude.