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Groups Of People Armenians
366 wordsA genocide is the organized killing of a group of people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence. As a rule the organizing agency is the state, the victim population is a domestic minority, and the end result is the near total death of a society. The Armenian Genocide conforms to this simple definition. In 1915 the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire proceeded with plans to eliminate the Armenians. By 1918 it had succeeded in destroying most of the Armenia...
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10 Th Century 18 Th Century Armenian
455 wordsBefore the introduction of Christianity into Armenia in the 3 rd century AD, Armenian literature was Assyrian or Me-Persian in character. After that date, however, the language, literature, and finally the alphabet of Greece appeared in Armenian writing, although eastern Armenia retained the Syriac alphabet. The translation of the Bible into Classical Armenian, traditionally ascribed to the monk and scholar St. Metro, and his systematization of the Armenian alphabet in 410 opened a period of lit...
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Power Or Light People
406 wordsAs an Armenian poet Hovaness Tumanyan said, "No sun, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no birds, December. " The beauty has gone since the earthquake occured. We live in the world today that business, commerce, science, technology, changes very fast. Even in the new century scientists can't predict the disaster, the earthquake. The five-minute earthquake can destroy a huge country. Armenia was a highly industrialized country. Agriculture was the second largest sector of the Armenian economy. Th...
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Political And Social Ottoman Empire
1,279 wordsThe first genocide of the 20 th Century occurred when two million Armenians living in Turkey were eliminated from their historic homeland through forced deportations and massacres. For three thousand years, a thriving Armenian community had existed inside the vast region of the Middle East bordered by the Black, Mediterranean and Caspian Seas. The area, known as Asia Minor, stands at the crossroads of three continents; Europe, Asia and Africa. Great powers rose and fell over the many centuries a...
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Allied Powers Mass Murder
1,304 words... tured, then hanged or shot. Next, there were mass arrests of Armenian men throughout the country by Turkish soldiers, police agents and bands of Turkish volunteers. The men were tied together with ropes in small groups then taken to the outskirts of their town and shot dead or bayoneted by death squads. Local Turks and Kurds armed with knives and sticks often joined in on the killing. Then it was the turn of Armenian women, children, and the elderly. On very short notice, they were ordered t...
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Ming Dynasty Technological Developments
1,020 wordsThematic Essay At various times between the fifth and seventeenth centuries, civilizations developed and produced significant contributions in the areas of political systems and leadership, economic and technological developments, social structures, and the intellectual life, specifically art, music, literature, science, philosophy, and religion. The Ottomans drew strength from their origins as ghazi's. The ghazi principle fueled their urge for conquest and then helped them to structure their de...
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Gorky Gorky's Childhood
303 wordsThe painter Archive Gorky was born Vostanig Alan in eastern Turkey. Raised in a poor Armenian farming family, Gorky's childhood was shaped by two disasters: the first being the massacres of 1896, the second was the genocide of 1915, that affected the entire Armenian population, and which claimed the life of Gorky's mother. Gorky was a seminal figure in the early years of the New York School and a largely self taught artist whose work combined both geometric abstraction and figurative surrealism....
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Won T Nine Days
1,992 wordsOf All People, I Survived As I stand today at the age of 60 I tell my story of suffer and agony. Years when I lost my beloved ones, and from then on saw no light shine upon me or the following days that led to the future. Those days passed by like months and years: a vivid picture of hell. I am not ashamed to share my story for it is the truth that nobody was willing to hear, and those people were the ones who showed no sympathy towards us. They were the ones who hid the true story of the Armeni...
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