Chapter 13- The Worlds of the 15th Century

It been three months not blogging. I know I should since it is part the grade, to be honest I either forget or don't feel like blogging. But now, since the semester is going to be over, I need to caught up with most of the topics since September. My goal is to have many blogs as possible by December 6, I will do two blogs a day. So, with previous blogs I will give my opinion and what I learned from that chapter.

In the Islamic World had two powerful empires; The Ottoman and Safavid Empires. The Ottoman Empire lasted from fourteenth to early twentieth century. Had big territories, Anatolia, Eastern Europe, most of the Middle East, and North African coast. The empire efforts was to bring new unity to the Islamic world. They have an aggression towards Christian lands, which cause the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Europeans feared the turks. The Safavid empire appear in Persia from a Sufi religious order. The empire was established shortly after 1500, which imposed Shia Islam as the official religion of the state. Sunni Ottoman empire and Shia Safavid empire will fight constantly, between 1534 and 1639. I found interesting is the age of the four great Muslim empires, sometimes called “second flowering of Islam.” Which is the new age of energy, prosperity, and cultural brilliance.

The Americas' history is known for the Mayans, Aztecs and Inacs Empires. In the book only two are mention; the Aztec and Inac. Both empires were established by one- marginal peoples who took over and absorbed older cultures. Both were destroyed by the Spaniards and their diseases. The Mexica were a semi-nomadic people who mirgrated southward from Northern Mexico. Form themselves on an island in Lake Texcoco by 1325 and built themselves up and install the capital city of Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs were a loosely structured, unstable conquest state, a population of 5-6 million. I know about the Aztecs that they are more prominent in human sacrifice, than in earlier Meso-America. Their believes of human sacrifice is gods shed their blood to create humankind, so is only fair to do the same. Also, they believe the sun needs the life-giving force of human blood to help it fight the ever-encroaching darkness.